About
Founder and CEO of Nixo, a platform for forward deployed engineers that consolidates customer context, code intelligence, and workload visibility.
Founder at NixoYC S25
Intro paths
YC
Priya went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Nixo's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Priya can intro founders to Nixo's investors below.
Nixo's investors · 2
Experience
- Nixo (YC S25)Founder & CEOcurrent2025 — present
- Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)Machine Learning Systems Researcher @ Hazy Researchcurrent2025 — present
- Stanford University School of EngineeringTA @ CS 229 (ML), CS 224W (Graph ML), CS 111 (Operating Systems)2021 — 2025
- Scale AIMachine Learning Researcher2024
- Kumo.AIMachine Learning FDE2023
- Stanford University School of MedicineAI Researcher @ Gevaert Lab2021 — 2023Stanford, California, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2022
- Harvard Medical SchoolMedical AI Fellow2022
- TikTokMarketing Consultant2022
- Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)CURIS Researcher @ Stanford Vision and Learning Lab2021
- Jane StreetTrading and Technology Fellow2021
- Salk Institute for Biological StudiesResearcher @ Sejnowski Computational Neurobiology Lab2019 — 2020San Diego, California, United States
- UC San Diego HealthResearcher @ Reproductive and Oncofertility Science Academy2019San Diego, California, United States
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Priya Khandelwal?
- Founder and CEO of Nixo, a platform for forward deployed engineers that consolidates customer context, code intelligence, and workload visibility.
- Where does Priya Khandelwal work?
- Priya Khandelwal is Founder of Nixo.
- What companies did Priya Khandelwal found?
- Priya Khandelwal founded Nixo.
- Where did Priya Khandelwal go to school?
- Priya Khandelwal studied at Stanford University (Master's of Science, Computer Science); Y Combinator (S25); Stanford University (Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science).
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