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).

Diana Hu

Investor

General Partner at Y Combinator

San Francisco Bay Area

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.

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

Education

Carnegie Mellon UniversityMS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

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).