Lilly Chen is Founder and CEO of FSH Technologies, a venture-backed AI-native govtech company on a mission to make local government software work for every American.

A Mathematical Economics graduate of Colorado College, Lilly spent time as a Buddhist monk in her teens before teaching herself to code and joining Meta as a machine learning engineer, where she built AI training infrastructure.

Disillusioned by big tech's disconnect from real-world impact, Lilly left Meta in 2021 to build a values-driven company, advising on Philadelphia's mayoral transition team and earning a 2025 Innovator of the Year nomination along the way.

Lilly co-founded FSH Technologies in 2021 alongside Johnson Lin, growing it from a seed-stage startup into a Series A company with contracts across cities including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Denver, and Buffalo.

FSH has raised $25M in total funding, serves 300+ municipalities, cut onboarding time by 60% for the City of Somerville, and secured a 10-year food services contract with Pittsburgh Public Schools, competing head-to-head with firms like Accenture.