Hongkai He

General Partner

2019 - Current

Hongkai is a founding GP of Taihill since fund II. Taihill Venture is a pre-seed, seed-stage sector agnostic deeptech fund. We are looking for disruptive technologies that are solving long existing problems. Since 2017, we've managed 3 funds and invested in >120 startups. From US to China to Europe and Middle East, our diverse team brings resources and networks from across the globe.

Venture Partner

2018 - 2019

Fund I is formerly known as Skylight Investment. In 2014, through a strong local network in the Boston area, our partners began doing angel investments in emerging technologies that represent progressive innovations. Skylight Investment was then established as our first VC fund in Boston in 2017.

Venture Creation Director

2024

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Consultant | VP of Products

2018 - 2019

Associate, EIR

2016 - 2018

Boston-based early stage VC fund

Co-founder, Director of Product and Operations

2016 - 2018

Boston Innovation Growth (aka BIG) is a venture created company by Boston Angel Club (VC). We connect US startups with Chinese investors and resources by providing productivity SaaS tools and consulting service. -Lead product planning, user discovery, requirements, design, development, delivery and user acquisition for the YCT.fund and Medbao.com -Connected 200+ US startups with Chinese investors

Co Founder, Chief Product Officer

2015 - 2016

-Originated the idea, identified the demand and pivoted the product by interviewing over 100 people and conducting competitive analysis following the business model canvas and the lean startup framework -Design and exhaustively descript the minimum viable product in a mind map, manage the task priority and developing progress, articulate and discuss weekly developing milestones to our UI, frontend and backend engineers -Interact with potential investors in both the U.S. and China

Operations Consultant

2014 - 2015

-Diagnosed the organizational structure and the bottleneck of growth of IAS by conducting five onsite visits with employee interviews, three meetings with five executives of the company and case studies on similar companies -Worked at an executive plan for organizational reform in ten-year scale to fit IAS’s $100M goal in revenue increase and regularly meet the board to present the results and get the feedbacks -Worked at a succession plan for smoothly transferring the responsibility of the board to the second generation and assist IAS in creating two new positions to refine the operation structure and support the succession process

Analyst

2014 - 2015

-Analyzed the transaction data of upper west side Manhattan; -Modeled and predicted the sale on different types of apartments over two years with survival analysis; -Conducted mixed integer programming to get the recommended floorplan for a planning construction project; -Revised a VBA tool to adapt a heuristic dynamic pricing strategy to maximize the sales revenue.

Student Fellow

2013 - 2013

- Analyzed the exchange rate of U.S. dollar in the past 50 years to reveal the key factors - Developed an excel tool based on portfolio theory and convex programming to help the middle class families in Guangzhou manage their wealth - Participated in workshops with employees from investment banking department

Research Assistant, Director Assistant

2011 - 2013

Research: - Participated in 7 academic projects using C/C++, Message Passing Interface (MPI), Pthreads, CUDA, OpenCL, Intel Many-Integrated-Core-Architecture (MIC): 1) Alpha Test of CC$, an Original Programming Language for Heterogeneous Parallel Programming across CPUs and GPUs 2) Second Round Development of CC$ on New Features and Revised Run-Time Library 3) Large Scale Dense Matrix Multiplication on GPU Cluster 4) BSDE-Based Option Pricing Model on Intel MIC Architecture 5) A CUDA Implementation of Fractal Image Compression 6) Network Optimizations for Linpack, CPMD, CP2K on CPU Cluster 7) Basic Local Alignment Search Tool on GPU Cluster Administration: - Operated and maintained a heterogeneous cluster with 96 GPUs - Trained one new researcher and co-managed eight student researchers - Composed course-ware of a graduate level course Parallel Linear Algebra and co-taught seminars of ten graduate students in CUDA Programming and Compiler Design