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Kyle Tsai

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

London, England

Work Experience

2023

  • 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.