Ling Vanessa Chen

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Angel Investor at Independent | ex-Grab

Independent
Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)
13+ years experience
Peking University
English, Mandarin
Investing
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Overview

Angel investor, backing B2B SaaS companies. Led or co-led 34 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later. Sit on 5 boards. Before that: Grab and SK Hynix. I tinker with 3D printers.

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Skills
pricinggo-to-marketventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into pre-seed B2B SaaS in Europe

Cheque size
$1M
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
B2B SaaS
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. We reply to every founder.

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Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    Apr 2022 - Present
    Independent · 4 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
    • Sit on 4 boards.
  2. Associate Partner
    Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
    Grab · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 7 million transactions a day.
  3. Engagement Manager
    Mar 2017 - Mar 2020
    SK Hynix · 3 yr · Full-time · Singapore
    • Ran commercial diligence on 33 deals.
  4. Senior Consultant
    Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
    Ayala Corporation · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Delivered 13 engagements across 3 countries.
  5. Business Analyst
    Oct 2013 - Oct 2015
    NAB · 2 yr · Full-time · Singapore
    • Moved 67% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 36 a week to 2.

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Education

  1. Peking University
    BSc, Economics
    1996 - 2000

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