Melinda Liu is Co-Founder and COO at Oxus, an AI-powered platform automating internal audit workflows for pre-IPO and public companies. Oxus is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch and helps audit teams save millions in outsourcing fees while completing audits 10x faster.

Melinda earned a B.S. in Computer Science, Economics, Data Science, and Finance from MIT. She previously built AI products for fintech companies and worked in finance at JPMorgan.

Melinda co-founded Oxus with Janet Liu and Christine Watts, all MIT graduates. The company recently raised $1.2M in funding and is onboarding early customers in the SOX audit compliance space.

At Oxus, Melinda leads operations as COO, turning hours of manual audit scoping, documentation, and control testing into review-ready outputs generated within minutes. The platform targets internal audit teams at pre-IPO and public companies.

Oxus transforms internal audit processes by automating workflows that traditionally take weeks into outputs delivered in minutes. The platform enables audit teams to deliver more audits faster while maintaining audit-grade accountability with full traceability to source evidence.