Hai Mau is a customer-focused founder and operator with 10 years of experience building data-driven products and scaling operations for fast-growing SaaS companies. He co-founded metris.io to apply NLP for automating desk research and now leads Kausate, a startup offering a single API for real-time company register data, while advising at Y42. At Y42 he progressed from Head of Operations to COO, helping the company scale production-ready Modern DataOps on BigQuery and Snowflake and through a landmark European Series A. His background spans consulting, research, and engineering-adjacent analytics roles at institutions like BCG, Fraunhofer EMFT, Siemens, and Columbia-affiliated labs, giving him a rare blend of technical literacy and operational rigor. Based in Berlin with degrees from TUM and CDTM and a stint at Columbia Business School, he pairs academic depth with hands-on product execution. Colleagues describe him as a builder who turns complex regulatory and data challenges into pragmatic, API-first solutions.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student, Visiting Student at Singapore Management University
Master’s Degree Management and Technology, Master’s Degree Management and Technology at Technical University of Munich
Visiting Scholar Columbia Business School, Visiting Scholar Columbia Business School at Columbia University
Honours Degree Technology Management, Honours Degree Technology Management at Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)
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