About
Max Xie is a second-time founder with an industrial engineering and management background from KTH Stockholm. He has previously worked as a deployed engineer at Accenture and as an AI/data scientist at PayPal, where he worked on fraud detection models, and founded an earlier startup.
Max Henry Xie 🇸🇪 @maxhxie
Something big coming soon...
Jun 26, 2026 · ♥ 1
Max Henry Xie 🇸🇪 @maxhxie
everyone says the moat in vertical ai is integrations. nobody mentions that "building integrations" is actually emailing a german pms developer your terms & conditions at 5pm on a wednesday. shipped
Jun 17, 2026
Max Henry Xie 🇸🇪 @maxhxie
the part of vertical ai nobody puts in the pitch deck: a vercel overage, an aws budget alert, and a call center integration that needs to ship before the next demo. this is what enterprise rollout actually looks like from the inside.
Jun 16, 2026
Founder at VetnioYC W25
Intro paths
Max went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer — the partner who ran Vetnio's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Max can intro founders to Vetnio's investors below.
Vetnio's investors · 3
Co-founders at Vetnio
Experience
- VetnioCo-Founder (YC W25)current2024 — present
- blanktCo-Founder2021 — 2024Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
- Zettle by PayPalAI/data Scientist2020 — 2022Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
- AccentureDeployed Engineer2019 — 2020Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
- Handelsbanken Capital MarketsML Researcher2018Stockholm, Sweden
Education
- Y CombinatorW25
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Skills & more
- Neural Networks — Coursera
- Machine Learning — Coursera
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Also attended KTH Royal Institute of Technology95
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Shared employers
Also worked at Vetnio4
Also worked at blankt1
Also worked at Zettle by PayPal6
Also worked at Accenture613
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