Jiahao Kuo

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Co-founder & CTO at Orbit Bio | ex-Boston Consulting Group

Orbit Bio
Taipei, Taiwan · CST (UTC+8)
9+ years experience
Melbourne Business School
English, Mandarin
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Orbit Bio (edtech). 17 years of building before that. Raised $26 million across 3 rounds. Grew the team to 75 people across 3 countries. Before that: Boston Consulting Group and Lazada. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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Skills
educationcontentgrowthmobile
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $8M Series A for event ticketing for insurers

Stage
Series A
Raising
$8M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$494k from an existing fund
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$9M ARR after 6 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

$9M ARR after 6 months. Looking for investors who know fintech and can help with regulatory approvals.

Taipei, Taiwanmobileeducationcontent
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    May 2025 - Present
    Orbit Bio · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Taipei, Taiwan
    • Raised $18 million across 2 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Feb 2024 - May 2025
    Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Taipei, Taiwan
    • Shipped 24 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2022 - Feb 2024
    Lazada · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Taipei, Taiwan
    • Wrote the education service that now handles 25 million requests a day.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
    ByteDance · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Taipei, Taiwan
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 24% in two quarters.
    • Moved 67% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. iOS Engineer
    Nov 2017 - Apr 2020
    Accenture · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Taipei, Taiwan
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 3.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 28% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. Melbourne Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2013 - 2015
  2. University of Indonesia
    BSc, Computer Science
    2005 - 2009

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