# Yih Lin Teh

> Yih Lin Teh is the co-founder and CEO of Axross, a Y Combinator Winter 2022 company developing AI-driven industrial HVAC controls. Her background spans economics at LSE, PwC, Dalberg and MIT Sloan, with earlier entrepreneurial work in small-business finance and Indonesian retail.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Axross
- **Organizations:** Axross, Bipi, PwC, Dalberg, CapSphere
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Economics, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Master of Business Administration, MIT Sloan School of Management, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Member of MIT's 2019-20 Legatum fellowship class., Co-founded Axross, a Y Combinator Winter 2022 company., Axross received the Runner-up Pitch Award at OIST-Lifetime Startup Elevate 2025, paired with Scrum Ventures.

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Listed as an economist at PwC UK in its Nigeria Economy Watch publication.
- **2019-2020** — MIT Legatum Fellow; worked on CapSphere, an asset-based peer-to-peer financing venture in Malaysia.
- **2021** — Axross founded; Teh identified as co-founder and CEO.
- **2022** — Axross participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.
- **2023** — Shared a customer meeting with Bipi reseller Pak Fian in Bandung.
- **2025** — Presented industrial HVAC work at IMKL and SEMICON Southeast Asia; Axross received a runner-up pitch award in Okinawa.
- **2026** — Continued public presentations on autonomous cleanroom controls and discussed expansion across ASEAN.

## Achievements

- Member of MIT's 2019-20 Legatum fellowship class.
- Co-founded Axross, a Y Combinator Winter 2022 company.
- Axross received the Runner-up Pitch Award at OIST-Lifetime Startup Elevate 2025, paired with Scrum Ventures.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Listed on the SEMICON Southeast Asia programme for a talk about AI-driven autonomous cleanroom and HVAC control on 5 May.
- **2026-09** — Reported returning to the Y Combinator campus as an alumni founder and reflected on engineering-based AI controls.

## Links

- Website: https://www.axross.co/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yih-lin-teh/

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Last updated: 2026-10-15