Kai is an Investor at WestBridge Capital where he invests in cybersecurity, GenAI infra and apps. He invests from Series A to public markets. Kai studied EECS at Berkeley and was previously a PM at Microsoft Azure.

What is a value, principle, or philosophy that has meaningfully shaped your journey? How does it continue to influence how you invest, lead, or approach challenges?

I am a big believer in ‘raising the ceiling’ and using the positive second-order effects to democratize opportunity. What made this click for me was learning how a lot of the technologies we use today in medicine, industry and our personal lives are downstream of the space race from the 60s and 70s, something that might have seemed ‘wasteful’ at the time. I practice this at a personal level by volunteering as a math tutor for grade school kids in India to help them build a foundation to train for better jobs than they would get otherwise.

Is there a technology, idea, or movement that most people overlook (or dismiss) which you believe will define the next era of innovation? What draws you to this perspective?

Energy access and generation influences a lot about how the world works but doesn’t get as much attention from bright people as it should. In the AI era, access to power is quickly becoming a bottleneck and I think there are big opportunities to innovate across the energy stack, from generation to grid infrastructure.