Summary
Nancy Xu is a VP at Salesforce leading development of AI agents after founding and scaling Moonhub—an agent startup that delivered the world's first fully autonomous AI recruiter, achieved 250%+ productivity gains for 100+ customers, and scaled to millions in revenue before a strategic acquisition. A Stanford-educated AI researcher and Knight-Hennessy Scholar, she helped start the Stanford AI Lab’s work on agents and balances academic rigor with rapid productization. Nancy is also a GP at Xu Ventures, investing in contrarian, AI-native founders and advising companies across seed to Series A that include Replicate and Inception AI. Her background spans research and product roles at FAIR and Akasa, and she brings a rare combination of mathematical Olympiad–level problem solving and operator experience building agentic systems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mission San Jose High School
Fellow in Ethics & Computer Science, Fellow in Ethics & Computer Science at University of Oxford
PhD Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, PhD Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University Department of Computer Science
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Bachelor of Science - BS Honors Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Honors Mathematics and Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Spanish