Chris Huskey Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, US

• 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.
• 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 SoftwareLove 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.

San Francisco, US

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.

San Francisco, CA, US

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.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN

• 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 playersWorked on investments ranging from Series B millions to pre-IPO hundreds of millions in the US, China and India, and have been.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN

Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN

• 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

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

Palo Alto, California, US

• 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

Menlo Park, CA, US

• 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.

Washington, DC, US

• 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.

Washington, DC, US

• 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.
• 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 delegationExcerpt from recommendation letter by Graham Mayer, Internal Political Chief, US Embassy Beijing (not on LinkedIn):"Christopher Huskey.

Needham, Massachusetts, US

• 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

B.A., International Relations

Data Science & Machine Learning

Overseas Study, Business Chinese, Intensive Chinese Language, And Chinese Culture And History

Overseas Study, Individual Guided Research, Business Chinese, Intensive Chinese Language, And Modern Chinese Society

International Baccalaureate (Ib) Diploma With Honors