Diana Hu
Managing Partner at Y Combinator

YC Partner
Diana Hu
Diana Hu is a Managing Partner at YC. She was co-founder and CTO of Escher Reality (YC S17), an Augmented Reality Backend company that was acquired by Niantic (makers of Pokémon Go). At Niantic, she was the head of the AR platform. Previously, she led data science at OnCue TV that was sold to Verizon. Originally from Chile, Diana graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus in computer vision and machine learning.
YC Stats
- Diana is the founder and CTO of Escher Reality, acquired by Niantic, the makers of Pokémon Go.
- Diana has done over 1,700 office hours over the course of 5 batches at YC.
- Companies she's worked with are worth a combined $1.7 billion.
- She's advised top YC alumni including: Activeloop, Tavus, Zinite, Stepful, Hubble Network, Industrial Next, Cofactr, Infisical, Salient, Resend, Automat, HockeyStack, HappyRobot, Reducto, David AI, Diode Computers, Inc.
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