He Lu

He Lu is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Centauri AI, a Y Combinator-backed data platform for finance, based in the Santa Clara County area of California. Previously, he served as the co-founder and chief technology officer of Blue Water Fintech, where he successfully scaled the enterprise to $11 million in annual net revenue before its acquisition in 2022. Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Lu accumulated over nine years of professional experience in banking and capital markets, working as a portfolio manager overseeing five institutional fixed-income portfolios. Outside of the technology and finance sectors, he serves as an active search and rescue volunteer with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. His current professional focus centers on leveraging artificial intelligence to build modern data extraction and analytics infrastructure for the broader financial services industry.