Lucy Cai is Co-Founder of Instance, a Y Combinator-backed AI data analyst platform that enables any team member to query databases in plain English without writing SQL.

Lucy is pursuing a Master of Engineering in AI at MIT, and previously held roles at SpaceX, Amazon Web Services, Blackrock Neurotech, and the MIT Learning and Intelligent Systems Lab.

With deep expertise in LLM systems, Lucy brings a rare combination of elite engineering research and hands-on industry experience across aerospace, cloud, and neurotechnology.

Lucy co-founded Instance alongside Claire Mao, building the product through a Y Combinator program at MIT and opening early access to startups and data-driven teams.

Instance is gaining traction among early-stage startups by eliminating the bottleneck of SQL dependency, allowing any team member to extract real-time insights directly from their database in seconds.