# Ara Kyi

> Ara Kyi is a seed investor at Sky9 Capital backing Database, Software and AI Infrastructure. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sky9 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sky9-capital)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Ara Kyi is a seed investor at Sky9 Capital focused on Database and Software. Ms. Ara Kyi backs founders building disruptive technologies that drive positive change for society. Before Sky9, she built products at high-growth startups in blockchain and AI, and served as the first product manager in Singapore for OKX’s Web3 Wallet, where she led DeFi. Ara began her career in academic research, publishing work in health andmachine learning at Brown University’s HCI Systems Research Lab.Ara holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Smith College.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Database | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| AI Infrastructure | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HydraDB | The serverless context infra built with in-memory data stores: ultra low latency, highest precision recall, and relationally-aware. Build memory layers, stateful agents, and context stores with the highest accuracy. | $6.5M | Seed | Mar 12, 2026 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Sky9 Capital

VC Fund · Shanghai, China

Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for society, the environment and individual lives. Sky9 Capital team includes senior experts, entrepreneurs, and experienced investors from diverse backgrounds. Since 2011, the team hasmanaged a number of USD and RMB funds, whose total assets under management of nearly USD 2 billion.

5 contacts available at Sky9 Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wei Hao | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wei-hao |
| Ara Kyi | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ara-kyi |
| Davy Shen | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/davy-shen |
| James Wang | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-wang-47e0 |
| Ke Liang | Technology Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ke-liang |

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## FAQ

### What does Ara Kyi invest in?

Ara Kyi invests primarily in Database, Software and AI Infrastructure startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ara Kyi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ara Kyi closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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