# Douglas Gan

> Douglas Gan is a seed investor at GBCI Ventures backing Education. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: GBCI Ventures
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jul 2019
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasgan
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/douglasgan
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/douglasgan

Douglas Gan is a seed investor at GBCI Ventures in Singapore focused on Education and Mobile Apps. Douglas Gan is the Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director at ASEAN Fintech Group Ltd. He previously worked at VanityTrove as a CEO and founder. Douglas Gan attended Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 1 | 50% |
| Mobile Apps | 1 | 50% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 50% |
| Location Based Services | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 1 | 50% |
| Singapore | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cailu | Shanghai based Education company. | $10M | Seed | Jul 05, 2019 | https://www.cailuw.com |
| ShowNearby | ShowNearby's mission is to empower the world to answer this simple question: “What’s nearby?” ShowNearby is founded by Douglas Gan and Lee Changjin in November 2007. They had a startup capital of $30,000 and got its first angel round in February 2008. The angel round gave financing up to $500,000 but the duo only took up $200,000amidst the recession.Braved thru the .com bubble in 2000, SARS in 2003 and the financial crisis in 2008-2009, Douglas Gan, at the helm of ShowNearby, lifted its company from its maiden crisis.ShowNearby was one of the early adopters of Android, by late 2009, ShowNearby on Android was the #3 application globally, beating Facebook, Twitter and the likes, trailing behind Google Maps and Google Earth.By late June 2010, ShowNearby launched its first iPhone version and within a short span of 6 months, it has a total download base of over 300,000, standing at about 1 out of every 2 iPhone users in Singapore (Singapore is believed to have 650,000 iPhones in the market).By late September 2010, ShowNearby launched its first BlackBerry version and within a short span of 1 month, it has won the BlackBerry Super Apps Challenge's Regional Selection.Closing the year 2010, ShowNearby, Singapore's leading location based service, has approx. 100 Million mobile searches conducted across all its platforms, from all the users in Singapore in 2010, making it the largest Mobile Platform in Singapore.Latest Monthly Stats as of December 2010: 10.5M Searches |  | Seed |  | http://www.shownearby.com |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Orka Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orka-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About GBCI Ventures

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

GBCI is the leading smart city solutions provider that applies the root of trust to all industries, from information and communications, transport, real estate and property management, financial services and payment, healthcare to public goods management - endless possibilities to build smart cities.

1 contacts available at GBCI Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lim Ming Wang | Chief Business Officer | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Douglas Gan invest in?

Douglas Gan invests primarily in Education, Mobile Apps and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Douglas Gan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Douglas Gan closed in Jul 2019. Shizune tracks 2 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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