Kyle Tsai
Investment Manager at Wayra UK
Kyle Tsai
Investment Manager at Wayra UK
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Manager
2023 - Current
Originating and managing startup deal flow from Seed to Series C for both venture investment and business development opportunities with Virgin Media O2 and Telefonica. Key focus areas: Network, Connectivity, Cloud, Sustainability, AI/ML, B2B Enterprise SaaS, and emerging technologies with Telco use cases.
Venture Capital Fellow Alumni
2022
Venture Capital Fellow (Class ’22)
2022 - 2022
A ‘unique fast-track MBA for venture capital’ for extraordinary leaders. Included VC is the first of its kind global Fellowship for individuals from overlooked & diverse communities. Mission: To diversify and change the face of the VC industry, dramatically increasing representation and maximising fund success by transforming networks, staff, deal flow and investments, creating effective multi-generational change. Over 85% of those Fellows that were actively looking for a role have broken into the venture capital ecosystem globally – from Asia to Europe to North America. Included VC is supported by an international consortium of venture capital partners and sponsors including: Creandum, Daphni, European Investment Fund, KAYA VC, K Fund, HSBC Ventures, HV Capital, Mouro Capital, Mangrove Capital, M12 - Microsoft's venture fund, Notion Capital, Seedcamp and Wilson Sonsini. Included VC has been featured by the likes of Forbes, Sky News, CNBC & Business Insider.
Founder
2020 - 2022
Exit Founder Wine Ecommerce Platform & wine-pairing algorithm based on user taste-bud sensitivity.
Product Manager
2020 - 2020
• Build a successful go-to-market plan by actively managing and tracking the comprehensive market and competitor analysis. • Excel at analytic tools on business trends and potential markets for product team evaluation and product positioning and channel strategies. • Optimise the sourcing stage of recruitment, transfer to strategic marketing execution and recruitment performance. • Focus on the aftermath of the data evaluation, setting metrics for the analysis process, define conversion rate based on the Human Resources funnel.
Business Operation Analyst - Sales Dept./ Finance Dept.
2018 - 2018
• Renovate manufacturing procedure for precision parts supplying Airbus and Boeing with SAP modulation from data point prospect. • Optimise manufacturing process by building linear regression models between online and offline cross-functional data and worksheets (600k+). • Ameliorate the quality of client orders by cooperating with the Product Management Dept. Analysed and tracked manufacturing performance for each customer order with 10+ self-built VBA functions and pivot tables.
Retail Banking Specialist - Retail Bank Dept./ Retail Loan Dept.
2017 - 2017
Create application programming interfaces (APIs) as flow-plans with artificial intelligence for confronting the on-demand digital banking services.
Education
Master's degree
2021 - 2022
Bachelor's degree
2015 - 2019