Yu Hu
Founder CEO at Kaito AI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Hu is a founder-CEO and former investor with eight years of experience building data-driven businesses at the intersection of finance and technology. After managing a $500M long/short equities book at Citadel and executing M&A and capital markets deals at Deutsche Bank, he launched Kaito AI to apply in-house AI to organize terabytes of unstructured crypto data and democratize Web3 research. Backed by an oversubscribed $5.3M seed round led by Dragonfly, Sequoia and Jane Street, he blends institutional investing rigor with product-first engineering and rapid team scaling. A Cambridge economics graduate and serial entrepreneur (co-founding a youth exchange program during university), he values meritocracy, ownership, and building high-leverage systems that make complex markets accessible to more people.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. (Hons.) Economics, B.A. (Hons.) Economics at University of Cambridge
Chinese
Github Skills (73)
stream10
database10
sql9
ksqldb9
rust9
postgresql9
data-stream9
serverless9
stream-processing9
spark-streaming9
kafka9
streaming-data9
graph-embedding9
sql-database9
graphsage8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MetaSearch-IO/UniversalCrawlerInfraCDK
Mar 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 11 months
curiosityyy/dev-docs
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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