About
Nicole Lu worked at Citadel in research, trading, and data science roles, served as a management consultant at McKinsey, and developed cancer detection algorithms at the Broad Institute. She is co-founder and CEO of sieve, a company focused on data cleaning for financial firms.
Founder at sieveYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Nicole went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran sieve's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Nicole can intro founders to sieve's investors below.
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Experience
- sieve (YC X25)Co-Founder, CEOcurrent2025 — present
- Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardAssociate Computational Biologist IIcurrent2024 — presentCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardGraduate Student Researcher2022 — 2024Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- South Park CommonsMember2025New York, New York, United States
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGrad student2022 — 2024Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- CitadelBusiness Manager2019 — 2022Greater New York City Area
- McKinsey & CompanyBusiness Analyst2017 — 2019Greater New York City Area
- AQR Capital ManagementIntern2017Greenwich, CT
- Goldman SachsSummer Analyst2016Greater New York City Area
- Goldman SachsSummer Analyst2015Greater New York City Area
Skills & more
Python
From Nicole's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Nicole Lu?
- Nicole Lu worked at Citadel in research, trading, and data science roles, served as a management consultant at McKinsey, and developed cancer detection algorithms at the Broad Institute. She is co-founder and CEO of sieve, a company focused on data cleaning for financial firms.
- Where does Nicole Lu work?
- Nicole Lu is Founder of sieve.
- What companies did Nicole Lu found?
- Nicole Lu founded sieve.
- Where did Nicole Lu go to school?
- Nicole Lu studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master's degree, Computer Science); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science).
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