Tan Yinglan
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Tan Yinglan is a Singaporean venture capitalist and author. He is the CEO and Founding Managing Partner of Insignia Ventures Partners.[1][2][3]
Education[edit]
Yinglan was educated at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University. He completed executive programs at Harvard, Wharton, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford.[4][5]
Career[edit]
Tan was head of projects at the Singapore National Research Foundation, a department within the Prime Minister’s Office that sets the national direction for research, innovation and enterprise.[6] Yinglan was Sequoia Capital’s first hire and Venture Partner in Southeast Asia.[7]
In 2017, he founded Insignia Ventures Partners.[8]
He also serves on the Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel and National University of Singapore’s Innovation & Enterprise Committee, the International Board of stars – for Leaders of the Next Generation, the National Council of the National Youth Achievement Award and Advisory Council of Singapore University of Technology & Design S.M.A.R.T Entrepreneurship Program. He is also a Board Member of Hwa Chong Institution (2013-2023).[9][10][11]
Investments[edit]
Insignia Ventures co-led the $60 million Series B round investment in Carro, an automotive marketplace and car financing startup based in Singapore.[12][13]
Insignia Ventures co-led an US$1.6m pre-Series A round investment in Groww, a financial solutions platform in India.[14][15]
Insignia Ventures was also involved in supporting Ajaib, a fintech startup focused on making stock investing more accessible to first-time investors in Indonesia.[16][17]
In 2022, the firm led a US$10 million Series A round into Thai beauty e-commerce platform Konvy.[18]
Recognition[edit]
Yinglan has received numerous accolades and honors, including being named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader from 2012 to 2017.[19]
Yinglan has been named as an Forbes China 100 Most Influential Chinese (2023),[20][21] Eisenhower Fellow (2018), WEF Technology Pioneer Selection Committee Panel (2015-2017), Top “40 leaders under 40” by Prestige Magazine (2015), Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle (2016-2021), Milken Institute Chairman’s Circle (2022-2023), one of 100 Leaders of Tomorrow by the St. Gallen Symposium (2010), 100 Global Thinkers (2011) by think-tank Lo Spazio della Politica, a World Cities Summit Young Leader (2014), a WEF Global Agenda Council member on Fostering Entrepreneurship (2011-2013).[22][23][24]
Publications[edit]
- Yinglan, Tan (2012). The Way of the VC: Having Top Venture Capitalists on Your Board. Wiley. ISBN 978-1-118-57998-5.
- Yinglan, Tan (2011). Chinnovation: How Chinese Innovators are Changing the World. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-82799-4.
- Yinglan, Tan (2011). "New Venture Creation: An Asian Perspective". In Spinelli, Stephen; Adams, Rob (eds.). New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century (10th ed.). McGraw Hill. ISBN 9780077862480.
- Tan, Yinglan; Joquiño, Paulo (November 2020). Navigating ASEANnovation: The Reservoir Principle and Other Essays on Startups and Innovation in Southeast Asia. WORLD SCIENTIFIC. doi:10.1142/8860. ISBN 978-981-12-2774-5. S2CID 243056346.
- Joquiño, Paulo; Tan, Yinglan (October 2022). Backing the Bold: A Primer on Early-Stage Venture Capital in Southeast Asia. WORLD SCIENTIFIC. doi:10.1142/13095. ISBN 978-981-12-6468-9. S2CID 251001494.
Personal life[edit]
Yinglan is married to Belle Yeh, whom he met in a master's class at Stanford and co-founded an online dating site with back in 2003.[5] Together they have three children.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ "China's tech billionaires keep it in the family office". Financial Times.
- ^ "Who wants to be a venture capitalist?". The Business Times (Singapore). 20 March 2020.
- ^ "Insignia Ventures and the Southeast Asia Entrepreneurial Ecosystem with Tan Yinglan". Analyse Asia. 23 March 2022.
- ^ "Hwa Chong Alumni Association Webpage Content" (PDF).
- ^ a b "Putting His Insignia On The Southeast Asian Tech Startup Scene". Asian Scientist Magazine. 2018-02-21. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ "Tan Yinglan". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
- ^ "After Sequoia departure, Yinglan Tan raises US$25 million for first fund". Yahoo! News. 13 September 2017.
- ^ Russell, Jon (2017-08-03). "Sequoia Asia venture partner Yinglan Tan has left to start his own VC firm". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ a b "Venture capitalist Tan Yinglan on how start-ups can thrive in today's challenging landscape". The Peak Magazine. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ "Insignia Ventures raises $516 mln, bets on Southeast Asian tech firms". Reuters. 2022-08-01. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ "Yinglan Tan, Insignia Ventures Partners – Backing Early-Stage Tech Startups". AsiaTechDaily. 2019-07-29. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ "International Board". stars. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ "Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". Tech in Asia.
- ^ "Insignia Ventures, Lightbridge Partners back online mutual fund seller Groww". VCCircle.
- ^ "Singapore's Insignia Closes $200 Million Southeast Asia Fund". Bloomberg.
- ^ "Tan Yinglan | Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship". iie.smu.edu.sg. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
- ^ Eka, Randi. "Insignia Explains New Investment Paradigm for Advanced Stage Startups". DailySocial.id.
- ^ "Thai online beauty retailer Konvy raises $10m from Insignia Ventures". The Nikkei.
- ^ "40 Under 40 2015". Prestige Online.
- ^ "2023福布斯中国最具影响力华人精英TOP100评选". 2023nachinese.forbeschina.com.
- ^ "Tan Yinglan - MIT Solve". solve.mit.edu.
- ^ "EFWORLD" (PDF). efworld.
- ^ "World Cities Summit 2014". www.worldcitiessummit.com.sg.
- ^ "Updates from Volumes 1 & 2 of the Kauffman Fellows Report | Journal | Kauffman Fellows". www.kauffmanfellows.org.