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Oscar Wilsby

Founder

Founder at Fuse

London, England, United Kingdom

FoundedFuse · YC

About

Oscar Wilsby holds an MEng and PhD in Machine Learning and Computational Physics from Cambridge and has worked as a post-doctoral researcher. He previously held research roles at McLaren F1 and Dyson, and co-founded a payments and credit analytics company that reached a multi-million dollar run rate.

Founder at FuseYC S24

Intro paths

YC

Oscar went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Fuse's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Oscar can intro founders to Fuse's investors below.

Fuse's investors · 8

Commerce VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checks · since 2026Delight VenturesTokyo · $429K – $312M checksFootworkSan Francisco · $1M – $15M checks · since 2026Lowercarbon CapitalNew York · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025NextView VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $4M checks · since 2026Primary Venture PartnersNew York · $1M – $3M checks · since 2026Transpose Platform ManagementHoustonY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Fuse

SSSho Sugihara
Sho SugiharaFounder

Experience

  1. FuseCo-Founder and CTOcurrent2024 — present
  2. PaveCo-Founder & Head of Data Science2020 — 2024London, England, United Kingdom
  3. PaveLead Data Scientist2018 — 2020London, United Kingdom
  4. University of MelbourneResearch Fellow2018 — 2019Melbourne, Australia
  5. DysonResearch Engineer2013Malmesbury UK

Skills & more

Research7OpenFOAM1Mathematical Modeling6Data Analysis1Machine LearningHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Project ManagementLeadership7PowerPoint2Python2C++2

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Oscar Wilsby?
Oscar Wilsby holds an MEng and PhD in Machine Learning and Computational Physics from Cambridge and has worked as a post-doctoral researcher. He previously held research roles at McLaren F1 and Dyson, and co-founded a payments and credit analytics company that reached a multi-million dollar run rate.
Where does Oscar Wilsby work?
Oscar Wilsby is Founder of Fuse.
What companies did Oscar Wilsby found?
Oscar Wilsby founded Fuse.
Where did Oscar Wilsby go to school?
Oscar Wilsby studied at Y Combinator (S24); University of Cambridge (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Aeroacoustics); University of Cambridge (Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Engineering and Machine Learning).

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