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Kyle Tsai

Investor @ Wayra UK - Telefónica's CVC ⚡ | Exit Founder | Certified Sommelier🍷

London, England

Skills

Business Strategy
Corporate Venture Capital
Startups
Negotiation
Communication
Financial Analysis
Problem Solving
Strategy Consulting
Finance
Project Management
Venture Capital
Due Diligence
Early Stage Investment
Investments
Teamwork
Strategy
Valuation
Corporate Finance
Deal Flow
Financial Modeling

Education

Work Experience

  • Investment Manager

    2023

    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.

2020 - 2022

  • 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.