Founding Partner
-Teja Ventures
Country: Singapore
Asset Class: Venture Capital
Preferred Stages: Seed to Series A
Preferred Sectors: Consumer Tech, Food and Retail, Healthcare and Sustainability
Preferred Geos: Indonesia, Singapore and China
Sample Companies: Green Rebel Foods, Lifepack, Grouu, BINAR
Board Postions: Green Rebel, Lifepack, Binar and Grouu
Virginia Tan is founding partner of Teja Ventures, a consumer technology VC focused on the emerging middle class in South East Asia. She backs next-generation category leaders in the verticals of food, retail, health and the female economy, and is a pioneer in gender lens investing in Asia.
She is also founder and chair of She Loves Tech, a global startup platform which houses the world‘s largest startup competition for women and technology, held across 100+ countries in 2024, with the aim of raising USD1B for women entrepreneurs by 2030. Finalist startups have raised more than 560M USD post-competition to date.
Virginia’s background was in law and banking, focusing on investments in emerging markets and corporate restructuring, covering more than USD 30 billion+ of transactions in her career. She moved to China in 2013 to work on strategic investments related to China’s One Belt One Road policy.