Tan Yinglan

Tan Yinglan is a Singaporean venture capitalist and author. He is the CEO and Founding Managing Partner of Insignia Ventures Partners.

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.

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. Yinglan was Sequoia Capital’s first hire and Venture Partner in Southeast Asia.

In 2017, he founded Insignia Ventures Partners.

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).

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

Insignia Ventures co-led an US$1.6m pre-Series A round investment in Groww, a financial solutions platform in India.

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

In 2022, the firm led a US$10 million Series A round into Thai beauty e-commerce platform Konvy.

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

Yinglan has been named as an Forbes China 100 Most Influential Chinese (2023), 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).

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. Together they have three children.