
About
Japanese high schooler studying in Switzerland.
Working on my startups and venture firm in the US.
Work Experience
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Founded LocalHost, the startup studio for student founders to kickstart their ideas.
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Launched the v1 batch with a $150K capital allocation.
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Received & judged 300+ applications from undergraduates of Stanford, CalTech, UC Berkeley, MIT, NYU, etc.
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Led partnerships with the Residency, NUS Atlas Incubator, Crackeddevs, KGV, etc.
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Led an international hackathon ecosystem for aspiring engineers and technical founders.
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Onboarded & Judged 2000+ developers across in-person (e.g., London, Bengaluru, San Francisco) and virtual events with over 300+ products launched.
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Raised $100,000+ in sponsorships from 20+ global software companies. Includes Bubble, bluelearn, Flatlogic, XYZ domains, CodeDamn, ActualOneProtocol, etc.
Projects
Founded Gengo Lab, a non-profit initiative aiming to safeguard endangered languages and dialects through language AI models.
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Developed a rocket payload for Sunride, Sheffield University's rocketry team, holding the national UK altitude record.
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Led a team of students in electronics and software development for the payload.
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Attached to the nose cone of their 2023 model, successfully retrieving data on atmospheric conditions.
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Raised 2K+ cryptocurrency donations for humanitarian aid in the Ukraine conflict.
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Developed a gamified donation platform based on Bobu, a decentralized character IP from Chiru Labs.
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Operated from late 2022 to early 2023.
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Co-founded Namekuji (Arch) Labs, a white-label crypto/NFT trading software service, at 15 years old.
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Led a team of six part-time and full-time engineers and generated five figures in recurring revenue.
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Clients include K9's Artworks, Mad Apes, Dodo, etc.
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The codebase and its rights were micro-acquired for a sum of $120K.
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Employed as a partnership manager for K9’s, an NFT community venture with 200k$ raised.
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Coordinated outreaches and facilitated partnerships with software companies and NFT ventures.
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Part-time basis until the project’s discontinuation.
Writing
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Primary Author
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Harvard Brain Distinction Award
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Exception to publish as a high schooler
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Interview with a professor from the University of Geneva's Emotions and Memory Labs, focusing on the lifelong effects of learning from stress and emotions.
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Co-author
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Harvard Brain Distinction Award
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Exception to publish as a high schooler
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Interview with a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)'s BBP on visualization software for biological systems.
Education
Certifications
Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence