Diane Yu

Diane Yu is the co-founder and CEO of Tidalwave, a New York-based agentic AI mortgage startup whose SOLO platform aims to modernize mortgage origination with transparency, speed, and lower costs for lenders and borrowers. A career engineer and repeat founder, she previously co-founded the adtech company FreeWheel (acquired by Comcast for roughly $375-400M in 2014), served as CTO of Comcast Advertising and of the digital lender Better, and spent nearly a decade at DoubleClick rising to VP of Engineering. In November 2025 Tidalwave raised a $22M Series A led by Permanent Capital with participation from homebuilder D.R. Horton, and the company was named to the 2026 CB Insights AI 100.