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Founder28Past founder
35th percentile
Investor82Current investor
91st percentile
Combined
Techstars NYC investment manager and Loeb Capital GP now building in stealth
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Portfolio Scale · 86th percentile
- Co-led investments into 50+ startups at Techstars NYC across multiple programs.
- Partner / Principal at Techstars, a globally recognized accelerator and VC firm, serving as Senior Investment Manager for the NYC AI/ML Vertical.
- Approximately 7 years of investing experience, beginning with early angel investments around 2017–2018 and continuing through Techstars roles.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current co-founder of FemBuild Collective, an active community for female engineers in NYC and SF.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of Auby, an AI-powered podcast and audiobook curation app, and co-founder of Senpai.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Senpai was co-founded with at least one other co-founder, confirming a co-founding relationship.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)GitHub account is at least 5 years old, created in 2018.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)GitHub account identified for Christine Lu (@Christine-Lu), created in 2018.
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Christine Lu with 26 reputation.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Partner / Principal at Techstars, a globally recognized accelerator and VC firm, serving as Senior Investment Manager for the NYC AI/ML Vertical.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Co-led investments into 50+ startups at Techstars NYC across multiple programs.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, with early investments in Aspiration, Tudou (pre-IPO), and other companies.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Active GP / fund manager role as Managing Partner at Loeb Capital.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Approximately 7 years of investing experience, beginning with early angel investments around 2017–2018 and continuing through Techstars roles.
What you likely need
You're at a rare inflection point where your operator credibility, Techstars deal-flow relationships, and cross-border Asia expertise all need to start working together publicly. The highest-leverage Festival events for you are ones that accelerate Series A introductions for your stealth startup, sharpen your investor identity around Loeb Capital and FemBuild Collective, and put you in rooms where your U.S.–Asia positioning is a genuine differentiator rather than a footnote.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA Techstars mentor and alumni investor dinner specifically for founders mid-seed who need warm introductions to Series A leads before runway tightens
- tacticalA roundtable for founder-led community builders — think On Deck, Chief, and All Raise operators — who have successfully layered paid membership or sponsorship tiers onto free communities, to help Christine pressure-test a FemBuild Collective monetization model
- positioningA dinner for emerging NYC-based angel fund managers and solo GPs to workshop public investment thesis pages, check-size positioning, and LP outreach strategies that convert informal deal flow into inbound from underrepresented founders
- positioningAn intimate dinner for NYC investors and operators with active U.S.–Asia cross-border portfolios or theses — think Headline Asia and GGV-adjacent networks — where Christine can explicitly position Loeb Capital's Asia-Pacific angle to LPs and co-investors in the room
- introsA curated happy hour connecting Techstars portfolio founders with enterprise BD and partnerships leads, designed to surface warm customer and strategic partner introductions relevant to stealth-stage B2B startups
- hiringA mixer for engineer-turned-founders and technical co-founder seekers where attendees share GitHub profiles and early demos, giving Christine a natural venue to publish her first open-source tool and reinforce her Engineer → Founder narrative to technical talent
- fundraisingA small-group office hours session with two or three Series A leads from Bessemer, Spark, or FirstMark who have backed Techstars alumni, focused on what stealth-stage founders need to show before a formal raise process begins
- tacticalA FemBuild Collective co-hosted happy hour in NYC with a corporate sponsor pilot — structured so Christine can test a live sponsorship activation model with 2 employees managing logistics and measure conversion to a paid tier