Where does Diana Hu work?

Diana Hu is General Partner at Y Combinator.

What does Diana Hu invest in?

Diana Hu invests in AI & Machine Learning, Deep Tech.

Where did Diana Hu go to school?

Diana Hu studied at Carnegie Mellon University (MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering); Carnegie Mellon University (BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering).

What podcasts and interviews feature Diana Hu?

Tracked appearances include "Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI", "Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code", "The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company", and 5 more.

Diana Hu

Investor

General Partner at Y Combinator

San Francisco Bay Area

Find your path to Diana

2,645 people in our graph share verified history with Diana — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Javier SolterounlockedDiana: together at Carnegie Mellon University (2010–2011)

×10Diana: together at Intel Corporation

Diana: together at Y Combinator

About

Co-founder and CTO of Escher Reality (acquired by Niantic), where she shipped AR technology for Pokemon GO to over 100M users. Grew up in Chile.

Contact· self-published, not guessed

d•••@ycombinator.comreveal

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech

Beyond investing

Founded: Diana Hu co-founded Escher Reality, an augmented reality backend company that went through Y Combinator's S17 batch and was later acquired by Niantic.
Education: Studied at Carnegie Mellon University (BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
More: Diana Hu is originally from Chile.

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Experience

Y CombinatorManaging Partnercurrent2026 — present
Y CombinatorGeneral Partner2022 — 2026
Y CombinatorVisiting Partner2021 — 2022
Niantic, Inc.Director of Engineering, Head of AR Platform2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
Escher RealityCo-founder & CTO (acquired by Niantic)2016 — 2018
Verizon LabsData Science Lead (OnCue TV acquired by Verizon Labs)2014 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
Intel CorporationData Science Tech Lead2013 — 2014Santa Clara, California, United States
Intel CorporationResearch Analyst for the Chief of Product2012 — 2013Santa Clara
Intel CorporationResearch Engineer at Intel Labs2012Hillsboro, OR
Intel CorporationSoftware Engineer2011 — 2012Chandler, AZ
Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearcher2010 — 2011Greater Pittsburgh Area
NVIDIASoftware Intern2010

Skills & more

Machine Learning36Computer Vision27Image Processing9Pattern Recognition21Python27Matlab6Java17Data Mining14Research8Cloud Computing7OpenCV5Biometrics4

+12 more

Program ManagementTechnical ConsultationC/C++Computer ScienceEmbedded SystemsArtificial IntelligenceHigh Performance ComputingProgrammingC++CUDARoboticsAlgorithms

Languages Chinese · English · Spanish

From Diana's professional profile.

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Diana Hu

Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI

Startup School

Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code

Startup School

The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company

Startup School

Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to Engineering Students

AI Startup School

How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era

Lightcone Podcast

The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek | YC Decoded

YC Decoded

2 more appearances

You Don’t Have To Be A Billionaire To Launch Satellites2024-10-31
Tips for technical startup founders2023-04-21

Colleagues at Y Combinator

Aaron Epstein

General Partner at Y Combinator

Andrew Miklas

General Partner at Y Combinator

Ankit Gupta

General Partner at Y Combinator

Brad Flora

Backing expeditions into the future

Chris Golda

General Partner at Y Combinator

David Lieb

General Partner at Y Combinator

Garry Tan

President & CEO of Y Combinator

Grey Baker

General Partner at Y Combinator

Frequently asked questions

Who is Diana Hu?: Co-founder and CTO of Escher Reality (acquired by Niantic), where she shipped AR technology for Pokemon GO to over 100M users. Grew up in Chile.
Where does Diana Hu work?: Diana Hu is General Partner at Y Combinator.
What does Diana Hu invest in?: Diana Hu invests in AI & Machine Learning, Deep Tech.
Where did Diana Hu go to school?: Diana Hu studied at Carnegie Mellon University (MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering); Carnegie Mellon University (BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering).
What podcasts and interviews feature Diana Hu?: Tracked appearances include "Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI", "Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code", "The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company", and 5 more.