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Nicole Hu

Founder & CEO, Foundry One Technology

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semiconductor ai chips; agentic ai systems; enterprise ai product management

Nicole Hu

Founder & CEO, Foundry One Technology

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Nicole Hu is a Silicon Valley tech veteran with more than 18 years of technical background across device, mobile, gaming, SaaS, ML, and AI, having worked with startups (2 IPOs and 1 acquisition) and tech giants. She was an engineering manager at Google, managing two teams that delivered $4 billion in impact before starting her own business. She is an active investor and startup advisor, with investments including TigerGraph, Swarms.ai, Picasso, Discord, SpaceX, and Allen Controls System, and is a startup mentor for Science Park Graz. Her advising focus areas include AI, AI agents, cybersecurity, and post-quantum cryptography.

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Career History

Careers Timeline

Mar 2026 – Current

SPG Mentor — Science Park Graz

 

Apr 2025 – Current

Principal Consultant & AI Practitioner — Foundry One Technology

Acting as a fractional Field CTO/Head of Product for high-growth AI startups, facilitating go-to-market strategy and technical architecture.

 

Apr 2022 – Mar 2025

Engineering Manager — Google LLC

 

Sep 2021 – Mar 2022

Director of Engineering — AppDynamics LLC

 

Mar 2016 – Sep 2021

Senior Engineering Manager / Principal Engineer — AppDynamics LLC

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