Daiki Sato

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Founder & CEO at Vellum AI · Edtech

Vellum AI
Tokyo, Japan · JST (UTC+9)
17+ years experience
Melbourne Business School
English, Japanese
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Vellum AI (edtech). 21 years of building before that. Previously built and sold a small edtech company. Before that: Grab and Visa.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
educationgrowthcontentmobileB2B sales
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closes in 3 months

Series B round open - cash-flow forecasting for independent clinics, $299k MRR

Stage
Series B
Raising
$299k
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$299k MRR after 21 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

$299k MRR after 21 months. Looking for investors who know creator tools and can help with hiring.

Tokyo, Japan · remote OKgrowthmobilecontent
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Vellum AI · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Grew the team to 102 people across 5 countries.
    • Signed 176 paying customers, 3 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $20 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2019 - Mar 2023
    Grab · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Staff Frontend Engineer
    May 2016 - Nov 2019
    Visa · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 21% in two quarters.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Apr 2013 - May 2016
    Standard Chartered · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 41 minutes to under 6.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2010 - Apr 2013
    McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

  1. Melbourne Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2009 - 2011
  2. Vietnam National University
    BSc, Engineering
    2001 - 2005

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