Allen Xu

things i'm doing:

• backing y-combinator and a16z speedrun startups @ multimodal ventures ($25m aum)

things i've done:

• built ego-exo datasets for physical ai @ build ai and hf0 s26 (<0.1% acceptance rate)
• 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, writing $15k+ in angel checks
• 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)
• posted daily photos with high school seniors (750k+ views)