Max Henry Xie

Max Henry Xie is the Co-Founder of Vetnio, a B2B productivity startup backed by Y Combinator, based in San Francisco, California. At the six-person company, which was accepted into the YC Winter 2025 cohort, he directs growth, execution, process improvement, and strategic operations. Prior to his current venture, Xie worked as an AI and data scientist at PayPal, where he focused on fraud prevention and machine learning models. He also served as a deployed engineer at Accenture and built his first startup before establishing Vetnio. The self-taught developer and former competitive chess player initially studied industrial engineering and management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm before leaving to pursue entrepreneurship. His professional background combines enterprise software development with financial services machine learning, currently focusing on scaling operational efficiency tools for B2B markets.