Kei Hayashi

Kei Hayashi

Venture Capital & Startups

About

Japanese high schooler studying in Switzerland.
Working on my startups and venture firm in the US.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
San Francisco
  • Founded LocalHost, the startup studio for student founders to kickstart their ideas.

  • Launched the v1 batch with a $150K capital allocation.

  • Received & judged 300+ applications from undergraduates of Stanford, CalTech, UC Berkeley, MIT, NYU, etc.

  • Led partnerships with the Residency, NUS Atlas Incubator, Crackeddevs, KGV, etc.

2023 — Now
San Francisco
  • Led an international hackathon ecosystem for aspiring engineers and technical founders.

  • Onboarded & Judged 2000+ developers across in-person (e.g., London, Bengaluru, San Francisco) and virtual events with over 300+ products launched.

  • Raised $100,000+ in sponsorships from 20+ global software companies. Includes Bubble, bluelearn, Flatlogic, XYZ domains, CodeDamn, ActualOneProtocol, etc.

Projects

Ongoing

Founded Gengo Lab, a non-profit initiative aiming to safeguard endangered languages and dialects through language AI models.

2023
  • Developed a rocket payload for Sunride, Sheffield University's rocketry team, holding the national UK altitude record.

  • Led a team of students in electronics and software development for the payload.

  • Attached to the nose cone of their 2023 model, successfully retrieving data on atmospheric conditions.

2022
  • Raised 2K+ cryptocurrency donations for humanitarian aid in the Ukraine conflict.

  • Developed a gamified donation platform based on Bobu, a decentralized character IP from Chiru Labs.

  • Operated from late 2022 to early 2023.

2022
  • Co-founded Namekuji (Arch) Labs, a white-label crypto/NFT trading software service, at 15 years old.

  • Led a team of six part-time and full-time engineers and generated five figures in recurring revenue.

  • Clients include K9's Artworks, Mad Apes, Dodo, etc.

  • The codebase and its rights were micro-acquired for a sum of $120K.

2021
  • Employed as a partnership manager for K9’s, an NFT community venture with 200k$ raised.

  • Coordinated outreaches and facilitated partnerships with software companies and NFT ventures.

  • Part-time basis until the project’s discontinuation.

Writing

2024
  • Primary Author

  • Harvard Brain Distinction Award

  • Exception to publish as a high schooler

  • 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.

2023
  • Co-author

  • Harvard Brain Distinction Award

  • Exception to publish as a high schooler

  • Interview with a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)'s BBP on visualization software for biological systems.

Education

2017 — Now
Switzerland

Unweighted GPA: 6.9/7

2014 — 2017

Certifications

2023

Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence

2023
DELF B1 from French Ministry of National Education
2022
First Aid BLS-AED from firstmed

Contact

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