2x founder

Jenny Xu

CEO and Founder @ Talofa | MIT | a16z speedrun scout | Building in fitness x gaming

Founder

Talofa Games· Speedrun 001 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn

2024Member· Hampton

Founder · since 2013

Company

Hampton

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current

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no public source

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Talofa Games

Talofa is building Roblox for Fitness. Our platform makes it simple for creators to develop fitness games for Gen Z.

Speedrun 001

Experience

Career

Talofa
Founder
CEO and Founder · 2021 – Present
2021
Hampton
Member · 2024 – Present
2024
Persistence
Member · 2021 – Present
2021
JCSOFT, INC.
Founder
CEO and Founder · Bay Area, CA · 2019 – 2021
2019
JCSOFT, INC.
Founder
Founder and Lead Game Developer · Cupertino, California · 2013 – 2020
2013
DeviantArt, Inc.
Game Creator, Artist, Animator on DeviantArt.com · 2011 – 2020
2011
Google
Software Engineer Intern · Mountain View · 2018
2018
Greylock Partners
Greylock X Fellow · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018
2018
N3TWORK INC
Software Engineer Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017
2017
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
KPCB Engineering Fellow · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017
2017
PlayStation Network
Software Engineer Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016
2016
GAMBIT [Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab]
Undergraduate Researcher · 2016
2016
Electronic Arts (EA)
Software Engineer Intern · Orlando, Florida Area · 2016
2016

Bio

Jenny Xu is a long-distance runner, fitness instructor, and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, CEO of Talofa Games. She began running and making games at age 12, studied Computer Science at MIT, and has shipped 10 mobile titles with over 10 million downloads. A Niantic Beyond Reality Contest grand prize winner, she raised $6.3M in venture capital, making Talofa one of 2025’s Top 25 innovative gaming companies. She taught 1,000 consecutive virtual fitness abs classes, holds a professional group exercise certification, and sets marathon PRs (2:56). Jenny also successfully completed Apple’s Entrepreneur Camp, Google’s Growth Labs, and a16z’s SPEEDRUN program.