Allen Xu

things i'm doing:

• building the internet for physical ai @ build ai & hf0 (<0.1% acceptance rate). raised $25m
• backing y-combinator and a16z speedrun startups @ multimodal ventures ($25m aum)

things i've done:

• built eyerobic, a haptic wearable for blind swimmers w/ an uspto provisional patent. presented @ nasa & nbc 5 chicago, winning $1m+ in academic scholarships
• built bizbuzz, a nonprofit entrepreneurship incubator across chicagoland. ran three camps and fish tank contests for 1.5k students, awarding $15k+ in venture funding
• finalist @ conrad challenge (25/1.3k), blue ocean competition (30/13k), deca internationals (6th/10k), ftc world championship (7th/7k)
• researched carbon trading @ university of michigan. presented @ ijio 2025
• researched governance effects on carbon intensity @ purdue university fort wayne. published @ harvard undergraduate economics association & ijsser
• built decademy.app, an edtech startup w/ 30k+ users
• interned @ university of notre dame (institute for global investing), the city of naperville (financial advisory board)

things i believe:

• “the world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. the new needs friends” — ratatouille
• “the only acceptable speed is as fast as physically possible” — eddy xu
• “the only way to do great work is to love what you do” — steve jobs
• “you have to obsess over it” — kobe bryant
• “fortune favors the bold” — virgil