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]

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Education

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

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]

In 2017, he founded Insignia Ventures Partners. [7]

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). [8] [9] [10]

Investments

Insignia Ventures co-led the $60 million Series B round investment in Carro, an automotive marketplace and car financing startup based in Singapore. [11] [12]

Insignia Ventures was also involved in supporting Ajaib, a fintech startup focused on making stock investing more accessible to first-time investors in Indonesia. [13] [14]

Recognition

Yinglan has received numerous accolades and honors, including being named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader from 2012 to 2017. [15]

Yinglan has been named as an Forbes China 100 Most Influential Chinese (2023) [16] [17] , 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). [18] [19] [20]

Publications

Personal life

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. [8]

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  8. 1 2 "Venture capitalist Tan Yinglan on how start-ups can thrive in today's challenging landscape". The Peak Magazine. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
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