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Muhammad Awan

Founder

Founder at Sequence Markets

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

FoundedSequence Markets · YC

About

Muhammad Awan was a founding engineer at Boardy AI and previously worked on radar, sonar, and industrial machine learning applications at UTEX, including defect detection systems for Boeing and SpaceX. He is currently building Sequence Markets, an execution platform for digital asset markets.

Founder at Sequence MarketsYC W26

Intro paths

YC

Muhammad went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Sequence Markets's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Muhammad can intro founders to Sequence Markets's investors below.

Sequence Markets's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Sequence Markets

PBPeter Bai
Peter BaiFounder

Experience

  1. Sequence Markets (YC W26)CTO & Co-Foundercurrent2026 — present
  2. Boardy AIFounding Engineer2024 — 2025
  3. UTEX Scientific Instruments IncSoftware Engineer2024
  4. WATonomousSoftware Developer2023 — 2024
  5. MIT-PITT-RWSoftware Developer2023 — 2024

Skills & more

Machine Learning Algorithms1Reinforcement LearningNumPyMatplotlibRobot Operating System (ROS)TypeScriptProduct DesignProject ManagementMillingElectronicsPyTorchReact.js
+5 moreC#Python (Programming Language)C++Autodesk Fusion 360Team Management

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Muhammad Awan?
Muhammad Awan was a founding engineer at Boardy AI and previously worked on radar, sonar, and industrial machine learning applications at UTEX, including defect detection systems for Boeing and SpaceX. He is currently building Sequence Markets, an execution platform for digital asset markets.
Where does Muhammad Awan work?
Muhammad Awan is Founder of Sequence Markets.
What companies did Muhammad Awan found?
Muhammad Awan founded Sequence Markets.
Where did Muhammad Awan go to school?
Muhammad Awan studied at Y Combinator (W26); University of Waterloo (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science w/ Statistics & Combinatorics/Optimization); International Baccalaureate (International Baccalaureate Diploma).

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