Yinglan Tan founded Insignia Venture Partners in 2017, an early stage technology venture fund focusing on Southeast Asia and has partnered with regional champions like Carro, Payfazz, Cohive, Janio and Logivan amongst others.
Prior to founding Insignia Venture Partners, Yinglan was Sequoia Capital’s first hire and Venture Partner in Southeast Asia.
He sourced multiple investment opportunities for Sequoia including Tokopedia, Go-jek, Traveloka, Carousell and Appier (where he represented Sequoia on the board).
Yinglan had also been a member of the elite Singapore Administrative Service, where he served in a variety of positions in the Prime Minister’s Office (where he was part of a team that managed a S$360 million fund for innovation and enterprise), Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Defence in Singapore.
Yinglan was also the founding Director of 3i Venturelab China, a jointventure between private equity firm 3i (LSE:III) and INSEAD.
Yinglan has been named as a member of World Cities Summit Young Leader (2014), WEF Global Agenda Council member on Fostering Entrepreneurship (2011-2013) World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2012 – 2017), a WEF Technology Pioneer Selection Committee Panel (2015-2017), Eisenhower Fellow - Innovation Program (2018), Top “40 leaders under 40” by Prestige Magazine (2015), Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle (2016). He was also named as one of 100 Leaders of Tomorrow by the St Gallen Symposium (2010), 100 Global Thinkers (2011) by think-tank Lo Spazio della Politica and Kauffman Fellows.
He also serves on the Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel and the Committee on the Future Economy's Sub-Committee on Future Corporate Capabilities and Innovation.
Yinglan is an adjunct associate professor at National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.
He is also a member of Strategic Research Innovation Fund Investment Committee at Nanyang Technology University, an advisory board member at Duke University CE, author of 3 books - “The Way of the VC” (Wiley, 2009), “Chinnovation” (Wiley, 2010) and textbook “New Venture Creation - An Asian Perspective” (McGraw-Hill, 2011).
Yinglan was educated at Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon.