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He Lu

Founder

Founder at Centauri AI

Palo Alto, California, United States

FoundedCentauri AI · YC

About

He Lu is CEO and co-founder of Centauri AI. He previously served as co-founder and CTO at Blue Water Fintech, which was acquired in 2022, and held a portfolio manager position managing institutional fixed-income portfolios with nine years of banking and capital markets experience.

Founder at Centauri AIYC W24

Intro paths

YC

He went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Centauri AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, He can intro founders to Centauri AI's investors below.

Centauri AI's investors · 2

Amino CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $10M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Centauri AI

MSMilan Shen
Milan ShenFounder
JWJames Wu
James WuFounder

Experience

  1. Centauri AICo-Founder/CEOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Blue Water Financial Technologies LLCCo-founder/CTO2018 — 2021Sunnyvale, CA
  3. IncenterPortfolio Manager2016 — 2018Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
  4. U.S. BankQuant2014 — 2016Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Skills & more

Portfolio Management3Machine Learning2Data Mining7Financial Modeling12Trading Strategies3CQGEquities1Programming5Fixed IncomeData ScienceArtificial Intelligence (AI)Software Development
+12 moreFuturesC++MatlabC#Microsoft SQL ServerJavaPythonRBloomberg TerminalsolidityPython (Programming Language)SQL

Languages Chinese · English

From He's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is He Lu?
He Lu is CEO and co-founder of Centauri AI. He previously served as co-founder and CTO at Blue Water Fintech, which was acquired in 2022, and held a portfolio manager position managing institutional fixed-income portfolios with nine years of banking and capital markets experience.
Where does He Lu work?
He Lu is Founder of Centauri AI.
What companies did He Lu found?
He Lu founded Centauri AI.
Where did He Lu go to school?
He Lu studied at Y Combinator; University of Minnesota (Master's Degree, Financial Mathematics); Yanshan University (Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science).

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia8,773

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University of Minnesota mafia33

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Shared employers

Also worked at Centauri AI2

Milan ShenFounder at Centauri AIJames WuFounder at Centauri AI

Also worked at U.S. Bank43

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