Candice Liu

candice@hat-trickcapital.com

Candice Liu is an investor at Hat-Trick Capital, partnering with founders building vertical AI and agentic systems that move real work forward. Before venture, she spent over five years as a software engineer at Apple. She began her career as a researcher at the IMF in Washington, DC, and later co-founded a Harvard incubator–backed crowdsourcing initiative. Candice brings a rare blend of policy, startup, and deep engineering experience. Outside of work, she enjoys vibe-coding and shipping projects that explore what modern AI agents can do.