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Nicole Lu

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Founder at sieve

New York City Metropolitan Area

Foundedsieve · YC

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2,074 people in our graph share verified history with Nicole — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Damir BecirovicunlockedNicole: together at Goldman Sachs (2015)
×4Nicole: together at Goldman Sachs
×5Nicole: together at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Nicole: together at McKinsey & Company

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.

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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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sieve's investors · 3

Financial Venture StudioSan JoseRestive VenturesSan Jose · $50K – $2.5M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Experience

  1. sieve (YC X25)Co-Founder, CEOcurrent2025 — present
  2. Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardAssociate Computational Biologist IIcurrent2024 — presentCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  3. Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardGraduate Student Researcher2022 — 2024Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  4. South Park CommonsMember2025New York, New York, United States
  5. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGrad student2022 — 2024Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  6. CitadelBusiness Manager2019 — 2022Greater New York City Area
  7. McKinsey & CompanyBusiness Analyst2017 — 2019Greater New York City Area
  8. AQR Capital ManagementIntern2017Greenwich, CT
  9. Goldman SachsSummer Analyst2016Greater New York City Area
  10. Goldman SachsSummer Analyst2015Greater New York City Area

Skills & more

Python

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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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