Ian GAN on Clubhouse

Bio

Ian is Founder and Owner of SEED Ventures(SV), an investment company that bets on Small & Medium Enterprises. It holds a Capital Markets Services License (CMSL, Venture Capital Fund Management) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He is also Executive Chairman/CEO of SV Holdings (SVH), the holdings company for SV's investments.

Ian started his business career in the private education-franchise space in 2001 and SV was founded in 2013. Since then, it has invested into a gamut of companies in the spaces of Compliance, Retail and Edutech. It goes through hundreds of investment pitches per month. It is co-General Partner to a fund "Venture Debt Fund 1" domiciled in SG in 2020.

HQ-ed in Sg, SV currently has rep-offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Manila and Kuala Lumpur.

Ian has attended as guest panelist in G-level E-ship conferences for governments such as Philippines' Department of Trade and Industry(DTI), Cambodia's National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (NIEI) and Japan's Tokyo Metropolitan Government. As part of SV's CSR efforts, he guest-lectures in Singapore's top universities such as National University of Singapore(NUS), Nanyang Technological University(NTU) and Singapore Management University(SMU). He is a frequent guest-judge in global research think-tanks such as INSEAD & Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART; Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)'s largest international endeavour). www.seedventures.biz/support-for-society

In 2018, Ian was appointed Business Mentor (Technology Commercialisation) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore's leading agency for scientific discovery and technological innovation. He was appointed Startup Mentor in National Tsing Hua University in Nov 2020.