Dr. Finian Tan

Chairman, CIO, Vickers Venture Partners
Finian Tan, a Cambridge PhD who traded oil at Shell and served in Singapore government to shape its tech-hub push, favors hard-technology bets and sizes one major risk at once.
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About Dr. Finian Tan

Finian Tan's path into venture capital stands out: he holds an engineering PhD from Cambridge, traded oil at Shell, worked at Goldman Sachs, and held a senior Singapore government post where he helped design the country's push toward becoming a tech hub, before making his first investment—a $7.5 million bet on Baidu that grew into a large stake by the time it went public. His investing style is just as distinct: he tries to judge one major risk at a time instead of several at once, often favoring hard technology aimed at big, obvious problems, since he believes that kind of risk is easier to size up than guessing which consumer app will take off next.

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Vickers Venture Partners

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Vickers Venture Partners is a Singapore-rooted venture capital fund that focuses on deep-tech and hard-science startups—such as geothermal power, RNA delivery, synthetic vaccines, portable dialysis, and biodegradable plastics—that many other funds avoid due to technical complexity, betting on solving already-known global problems like disease and pollution rather than unproven markets. With a team that includes PhDs and operators from companies like HP and Apple, the fund takes an unusually hands-on role in its portfolio companies, often investing earlier than others are comfortable doing, and keeps offices in Singapore, New York, Silicon Valley, London, and Shanghai to stay close to where those companies operate.

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