Yinglan Tan

Tan Yinglan is the CEO and Founding Managing Partner at Insignia Ventures Partners. Insignia Ventures Partners is an early stage technology venture fund focusing on Southeast Asia started in 2017 and manages capital from premier institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, foundations, university endowments and renowned family offices from Asia, Europe and North America. Insignia Ventures Partners is the recipient of “Deal of the Year (Small Cap / VC)” for Ajaib (2021) by AVCJ, “Best Early-Stage Technology Venture Capital Fund Southeast Asia” (2020, 2021) from APAC Insider, "Most Innovative Early-Stage Tech Partner Southeast Asia" (2020) from Capital Finance International, "Investor of the Year" (2019) from New Entrepreneurs Foundation, two back-to-back “VC Deal of Year” awards for Payfazz (2019) and Carro (2018) from the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and its portfolio include many other technology leaders in Southeast Asia. See more at http://www.insignia.vc Prior to this, he was Venture Partner at Sequoia Capital where he was the first hire in Southeast Asia. Yinglan sourced multiple investment opportunities for Sequoia India including Tokopedia, Go-jek (now Goto), Carousell, Appier, Dailyhotel, Pinkoi and 99.co. He serves on the Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel (chaired by the Head of Civil Service), member of the International Board for stars leaders for the next generation, member of the Board for Hwa Chong Institution, and the Investment Committee on Strategic Research Innovation Fund at Nanyang Technology University. Yinglan was honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012. He also serves on the WEF Technology Pioneer Selection Committee Panel, Young Leader Circle by the Milken Institute (2016 current), Top “40 leaders under 40” by Prestige Magazine (2015), 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) and a Kauffman Fellow. Yinglan is the author/co-author of 4 books, namely, The Way Of the VC: Having Top Venture Capitalists On Your Board.(Wiley, 2009), Chinnovation How Chinese Innovators are Changing the World (Wiley, 2010) and textbook New Venture Creation – Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century An Asian Perspective (Mcgraw Hill 2011) and Navigating Aseannovation (World Scientific, 2020). Yinglan was educated at Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon.