Stanford University

BloomTech

Peking University

Yunnan University

Taipei American School

Investment and M&A at Tencent

We are a crossover investment firm (both public markets and late-stage private companies), whose mission is to be the best partner to the world's internet-scale businesses.

Currently leading our investments in both public and private companies in:
• Software: Data stack, end-to-end: From AWS and Tencent Cloud to Databricks and Snowflake, to everything in between and everything on built top of these
• Software: Developer-facing: DevOps/DevSecOps, etc.
• Internet platforms
• China Internet and Software

Love playing with data and building data-centric tools (mainly in Python; your standard Kaggle-style data scientist), listening to well-written music that stirs the soul, writing and playing music, playing rugby/touch, and real, unique-experience-centric travel.

Octahedron Capital

Partner

We are a crossover investment firm (both public markets and late-stage private companies), whose mission is to be the best partner to the world's internet-scale businesses.

Analyst

Lamba Labs 2-month capstone project: “TeamReel”: Built a full MVP product to help job seekers practice video interviewing, get feedback and improve. Led the machine learning and data engineering team, building out: 
(1) ML side: a series of machine learning models that give automated interview feedback on users’ video interviews (mine were a facial features tracking model and a facial expression sentiment analysis model); 
(2) a system for tracking and analyzing human interview feedback to pair with the ML automated feedback; and 
(3) deployment side: deploying these models on AWS as a microservices-style pipeline with an ML prediction API (outlined below).

How it worked:
When a user recorded a new video interview in response to a prompt in our front end iOS app or web interface, our back-end infra would call this ML API to access our multiple models for feedback on the video interview. 

Deployment: 
Videos stored in Amazon S3 data lake 
& user/video info stored in main PostgreSQL operational database 
-> SQS queue
-> AWS Lambda function 
-> calls API endpoints to get predictions from each of our ML models 
-> store prediction results in main operational PostgreSQL database for the app/web front end to display to our users visually.

Lambda School

Lambda Labs Capstone Project: TeamReel

Growth stage and late stage investing in the US, India and around the world. My notable investments: 
• Kakao Bank (>30x)
• Flipkart (acquired by Walmart for $20 bn, now planning US IPO)
• Auris Health (acquired by Johnson & Johnson for up to $6 bn, post-milestones)
• Kindred AI (acquired by Ocado for $262 mn)
• Multiple gaming companies around the world, from small studios to major global players

Worked on investments ranging from Series B millions to pre-IPO hundreds of millions in the US, China and India, and have been fortunate enough to watch and learn as a number of these grew to become category-leading companies.

Tencent

Associate, Investment and M&A

Senior Analyst, Investment and M&A

Analyst, Investment and M&A

• Managed ASES VC3 team; organized and ran VC-startup conference, including Evernote CEO Phil Libin keynote
• Recruited, evaluated and selected the top 15 Stanford startups out of a sizeable pool of applicants / pitching startups
• Brought in 15 top VCs – all at partner level or above -- from DFJ, Y Combinator and others for VC- startup “speed dating” segment

Asia-Pacific Students Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) Stanford

Vice President and VC3 Director

• Worked with VC and corporate sponsors to organize and run mentoring program for Forge startups

Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES)

Forge Officer

• Early-stage startup in the "social gifting" space
• Formed and co-led Yiftee marketing team for Stanford's Global Entrepreneurial Marketing (GEM) class.  We launched 2 new cities and significantly expanded Yiftee's presence and operations in 2 existing cities, acquiring and signing merchants, acquiring customers, and leading advertising and social media marketing efforts.

Yiftee | data-driven mobile promotions & gifting

Growth Intern

•  Innospring is Silicon Valley’s first US-China startup accelerator -- focused on TMT
•  Investment side:  Deal screening and initial investment decisions, meeting startups & evaluating pitches, deal sourcing
•  Led business development:  Pursued and developed partnerships with US and China VCs, angel investors, organizations, startups, and corporations
•  Launched and led the InnoSpring Accelerator Program; built much of the initial mentor program
•  Led marketing:  Attracted 150+ startup applicants for Accelerator Program alone, many from top 5 schools; promoted InnoSpring with targeted events, channel marketing, social media marketing, PR and media outreach

InnoSpring, Inc.

Investment Associate Intern

•  Wrote briefing memos on Senate and House committee hearings, including Fed monetary policy updates and hearings on U.S. involvement and contracting in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
•  Reported on key Capitol Hill events: underwater mortgages and local-level mortgage/housing planning; Sri Lanka's 2009 civil war human rights violations.
•  Researched and wrote briefing memos on key laws and issues.
•  Tracked and analyzed Tea Party representatives' voting on key foreign policy issues.

U.S. House of Representatives

Capitol Hill Intern for Congressman Chris Van Hollen (MD)

•  Wrote reporting cables to Washington and internal Embassy briefing memos on China's politics, economy, government policies, state-owned and private enterprises, overseas and regional relations, developing "village democracy," and Party/government promotion and selection system
•  Met with Chinese central and local government officials, state-owned enterprise and private business leaders, and key academics to discuss political issues and conduct research
•  Coordinated China meetings and visit for US Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) and delegation

Excerpt from recommendation letter by Graham Mayer, Internal Political Chief, US Embassy Beijing (not on LinkedIn):
"Christopher Huskey demonstrated keen intellectual skills, good judgment and outstanding initiative as he made significant contributions to Section operations. . . . Political Section management quickly came to rely on Mr. Huskey’s knowledge of China’s complex political landscape.  On his own initiative, Mr. Huskey engaged a range of academic and government contacts to generate an impressive body of research . . . His analysis provided a broad section of the U.S. government policy community with insights . . . As a result of our confidence in Mr. Huskey, he was assigned to prepare briefing materials for a number of the Ambassador’s high-level meetings.  The memoranda he drafted skillfully explained a range of sensitive and highly complex policy issues and were precisely calibrated to ensure that the Ambassador was armed with the key information necessary to best advance U.S. goals in China.  Mr. Huskey also demonstrated a knack for managing complex logistical operations . . . I would enthusiastically recommend him for employment or further academic work in the area of foreign policy and international relations."

U.S. Department of State

Political Section Intern, U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China

•  Growth-stage startup in travel space (now TripAdvisor’s tours and experiences platform)
•  Promoted company through online marketing and search engine optimization (SEO)
•  Created promotional video advertisement for new Viator online marketing push
•  Revamped, redesigned and maintained promotional website for Viator's UK products
•  Promoted new products by designing new and redesigning old product pages and writing promotional content for Viator.com

Chris Huskey