Alan Yang
Chief Investment Officer @ GLP
Santa Monica, United States
Alan Yang is a seed investor at GLP in Santa Monica focused on Software and SaaS. Alan Yang is the Chief Executive Officer and a Senior Managing Director of GCP. Prior to forming GCP, Alan was the Chief Investment Officer of GLP and led GLP’s U.S. entry through the acquisition of IndCor from Blackstone. While at GLP, Alan led large scale, strategic initiatives outside of China and Japan. Since joining GLP in 2015 until theformation of GCP, GLP grew from $11bn to $64bn of AUM. Prior to GLP, Alan was a Principal at Blackstone where he spent nearly eight years executing over $70bn of transactions across all asset classes. He was also a founding member of Blackstone’s LA and Tokyo offices in 2005 and 2007, respectively. Prior to Blackstone, Alan started his career in Merrill Lynch’s real estate investment banking group. Alan graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Alan Yang invests in
Stages Alan Yang invests in
Countries Alan Yang invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (29%)
- SaaS 1 (14%)
- Shipping 1 (14%)
- Logistics 1 (14%)
- Transportation 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (14%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
- Series C 1 (14%)
- Series D 1 (14%)
Investments
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Flock Freight
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Flock Freight is reimagining and reinventing the freight industry by relentlessly eliminating inefficiency and waste through algorithmic pooling.Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and human-centric logistics management, Flock Freight tailors its shipping experience to meet your business’s needs. Flock Freight seamlessly poolsany freight to find the perfect route, avoiding terminals and risky offloads so that a shipment travels safely and directly to its destination, damage-free. The result: on-time delivery with every shipment—guaranteed.With venture capital from Google Ventures and SignalFire, Flock Freight is one of the largest startups in San Diego, California. The company's team is obsessed with aggressively growing its customer base, constantly improving the technology platform, and delivering a superior customer experience. Flock Freight aims to fundamentally change the $60 billion LTL freight industry across North America with FlockDirect—one pooled shipment at a time. | $60M / Series E / May 14, 2025 | |
Pipe17
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Pipe17 offers an order operations platform for brands, retailers and fulfillment providers that unifies selling and fulfilling platforms with back office applications so they work together effectively to process orders. | $19.4M / Series A / Jan 09, 2025 | |
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Flock Freight
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Flock Freight is reimagining and reinventing the freight industry by relentlessly eliminating inefficiency and waste through algorithmic pooling.Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and human-centric logistics management, Flock Freight tailors its shipping experience to meet your business’s needs. Flock Freight seamlessly poolsany freight to find the perfect route, avoiding terminals and risky offloads so that a shipment travels safely and directly to its destination, damage-free. The result: on-time delivery with every shipment—guaranteed.With venture capital from Google Ventures and SignalFire, Flock Freight is one of the largest startups in San Diego, California. The company's team is obsessed with aggressively growing its customer base, constantly improving the technology platform, and delivering a superior customer experience. Flock Freight aims to fundamentally change the $60 billion LTL freight industry across North America with FlockDirect—one pooled shipment at a time. | $215M / Series D / Oct 20, 2021 | |
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Pipe17
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Pipe17 offers an order operations platform for brands, retailers and fulfillment providers that unifies selling and fulfilling platforms with back office applications so they work together effectively to process orders. | $8M / Feb 18, 2021 | |
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Pipe17
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Pipe17 offers an order operations platform for brands, retailers and fulfillment providers that unifies selling and fulfilling platforms with back office applications so they work together effectively to process orders. | $8M / Seed / Feb 18, 2021 | |
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Flock Freight
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Flock Freight is reimagining and reinventing the freight industry by relentlessly eliminating inefficiency and waste through algorithmic pooling.Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and human-centric logistics management, Flock Freight tailors its shipping experience to meet your business’s needs. Flock Freight seamlessly poolsany freight to find the perfect route, avoiding terminals and risky offloads so that a shipment travels safely and directly to its destination, damage-free. The result: on-time delivery with every shipment—guaranteed.With venture capital from Google Ventures and SignalFire, Flock Freight is one of the largest startups in San Diego, California. The company's team is obsessed with aggressively growing its customer base, constantly improving the technology platform, and delivering a superior customer experience. Flock Freight aims to fundamentally change the $60 billion LTL freight industry across North America with FlockDirect—one pooled shipment at a time. | $113.5M / Series C / Dec 01, 2020 | |
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Flock Freight
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Flock Freight is reimagining and reinventing the freight industry by relentlessly eliminating inefficiency and waste through algorithmic pooling.Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and human-centric logistics management, Flock Freight tailors its shipping experience to meet your business’s needs. Flock Freight seamlessly poolsany freight to find the perfect route, avoiding terminals and risky offloads so that a shipment travels safely and directly to its destination, damage-free. The result: on-time delivery with every shipment—guaranteed.With venture capital from Google Ventures and SignalFire, Flock Freight is one of the largest startups in San Diego, California. The company's team is obsessed with aggressively growing its customer base, constantly improving the technology platform, and delivering a superior customer experience. Flock Freight aims to fundamentally change the $60 billion LTL freight industry across North America with FlockDirect—one pooled shipment at a time. | $50M / Series B / Feb 25, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About GLP
GLP is a leading global investment manager specializing in logistics and related technology investments, with US$120 billion of assets under management in real estate and private equity funds around the world. The Company’s real estate fund platform is one of the largest in the world, spanning 73 million square meters (785 million square feet). In2019, GLP was recognised by Private Equity Real Estate (PERE) as Global Firm of the Year and Logistics Investor of the Year.
GLP Contacts
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Alan Yang
Chief Investment Officer
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Dong Fanghao
General Manager
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Higashi Michihiro
Chief Strategy Officer, GLP China
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Kazuhiro Tsutsumi
Chief Financial Officer
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Lee Hawley
Chief Human Resources Officer
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What does Alan Yang invest in?
Alan Yang invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Shipping startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Alan Yang last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Alan Yang closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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