About
Lucy Cai studied computer science and AI at MIT and conducted robotics research at MIT's LIS Lab. Previously, she held roles at SpaceX and Amazon Web Services.
Cofounder and CTO at InstanceYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Lucy went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Instance's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Lucy can intro founders to Instance's investors below.
Instance's investors · 1
Co-founders at Instance
CM
Claire MaoCo-founder and CEO