About
Hi! I'm Mika. I'm currently:
- in New York
- working on King's Cross Labs
- writing AI tutorials for normal people
- reading The Art of Spending
- creating videos on Instagram
- watching The Pitt
- listening to my Wedding Dinner Playlist
- addicted to Claude!
Last updated @ April 2, 2026
Bio
Currently:
- Building AI products with Nick (my cofounder & husband) at King's Cross Labs.
- Creating content to learn about AI on Instagram & TikTok.
- Consulting on how to integrate AI into your business workflows. Reach out at ask@kingscrosslabs.com.
Recently CEO and co-founder @ Parallax. Acquired by Phantom ($3B val acquirer, best crypto wallet).
- Led product vision and strategy, developing one of the earliest stablecoin cross-border payments companies.
- Scaled the business to over $X00M+ in volume
- Raised ~$5M in venture funding from top VCs, including Dragonfly, General Catalyst & more
- Built and managed a cross-functional team of 10–15 team members across 8 countries
I'm grateful to have been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, Tatler Gen.T Leader of Tomorrow, Kleiner Perkins Fellowship SPC Founder Fellowship. I've also been featured on Forbes, TechCrunch, BusinessInsider, Tatler& other publications.
Previously product lead @ LinkedIn (if you see those purple "Hiring" rings on people's profiles, built that and more!), Kumu (led the team to product-market fit in the early days) & Ripcord through the KP Product Fellowship. I started the Filipinos @ LinkedIn group & was a Women in Product executive member.
My family and I have basically paid $0 in tuition for my high school and college as I'm a proud Freeman Asian scholar and Philippine Science High School scholar. I graduated B.A. Economics, Psychology, Data Analysis from Wesleyan University, Phi Beta Kappa & a summa cum laude.
I'm a fan of broadening access to opportunities in emerging markets like my home, the Philippines & love to help ambitious people design careers (and lives) they actually want, not just what society tells them to.
On the side, I like to work on fun projects like a virtual startup incubator for emerging markets, the first playbook for launching NFTs (as an NFT) & launched a fun social card game. Nowadays, I'm overloading on coffee & funneling my type A energy towards wedding planning.
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