# Virginia Tan

> Virginia Tan is a seed investor at Teja Ventures backing Apps, Sales and Solar. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Teja Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/teja-ventures)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginia-tan-a58b6b14/

Virginia Tan is a seed investor at Teja Ventures focused on Apps and Sales. Virginia is co-founder of Lean In China, which has over 80,000 members across 25-plus cities and 50 universities in China. She also founded the Her Startup competition in 2015, the first global tech competition for female founders.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| Sales | 1 | 20% |
| Solar | 1 | 20% |
| EdTech | 1 | 20% |
| Mobile | 1 | 20% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 1 | 20% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 20% |
| Singapore | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Grouu Baby Food | Grouu Baby Foodis a gourmet baby food catering for babies aged 6 months and over. Grouu also provides various choices of food textures that can be adapted to the needs of babies at their developmental age. |  |  | Sep 06, 2023 |  |
| Grouu Baby Food | Grouu Baby Foodis a gourmet baby food catering for babies aged 6 months and over. Grouu also provides various choices of food textures that can be adapted to the needs of babies at their developmental age. |  | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Grouu Baby Food | Grouu Baby Foodis a gourmet baby food catering for babies aged 6 months and over. Grouu also provides various choices of food textures that can be adapted to the needs of babies at their developmental age. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2022 |  |
| Doyobi | Doyobi enables educators to teach science and coding in a fun and interactive way. Its guided courses integrate videos, quizzes, and projects to make teaching easy. Doyobi’s courses are used in programs supported by Google and the Singapore government, as well as by educators from different parts of the world.Doyobi aims to help kids grow intooriginal thinkers and develop a sense of purpose. Its programs are designed to nurture curiosity, creativity, and a growth mindset. Doyobi’s pedagogy is built on helping learners develop attitudes and mindsets they would need to thrive beyond 2030, build coding and science fundamentals aligned to K12 standards, learn to use planning and design thinking to create prototype solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 18, 2020 |  |
| Frontier Markets | Frontier Markets connects India’s rural customers to products and services at their doorstep. 551 million rural customers lack access to financial, productive, durable products and services that can economically improve their lives. This is because product companies do not have deep enough infrastructure to access to rural customers; denyingtheir ability to drive innovative solutions locally to their target rural customer. Frontier Markets drives the best selection of life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating sustainable livelihoods for rural women. In partnership with existing SHG networks, we onboarded 4,000 women to become our digitally savvy women entrepreneurs called Saral Jeevan Sahelis. Our Sahelis use our assisted e-commerce and delivery platform, called the Meri Saheli app, to collect real-time data on customer, coordinate orders, and deliveries to earning an average of 65,000/- a year without having to leave their village, becoming local leaders, and decision-makers at home. Our local distribution hubs has a team of delivery field staff who ensure doorstep delivery daily, as well as coordinate after-sales service for product companies. This combination of high-tech and local teams, and product partnerships, has helped 700,000 rural customers access 1 million+ quality solutions in clean energy, agri, and homecare. The Meri-Saheli app was designed for rural customers and by our Sahelis, ensuring it’s easy to use. Bharat India’s digitization thrives, but to reach last-mile rural customers, an assisted solution allows for quick adoption, deep learnings, and optimal services to be delivered. Since COVID, we have partnered with 3 fintech companies to launch doorstep atm services, online payments, and financial services and leading FMCG companies to drive local essential goods doorstep deliveries. Achieving 97% conversion rates, and onboarding 2,000 new customers monthly. We have launched our 2.0 version for scale, adding AI capabilities to help Sahelis train to use the Meri Saheli app on their own. This will be a gamechanger, allowing us to partner with multiple SHG organizations at once who want to start the Saral Jeevan Initiative in their fields on their own. Our team has over 60 years of experience working in rural India in sectors like microfinance, telecom, and distribution allowing us to crack the rural last-mile challenge profitably. We envision becoming India’s largest high-tech, high touch platform delivering solutions to Bharat India connecting 100 million rural customers with 1 million digitally savvy women entrepreneurs. | $2.3M | Seed | Jul 06, 2020 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arkana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arkana-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bamboo Sea Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bamboo-sea) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beyond Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beyond-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bharat Inclusion Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bharat-inclusion-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/engie-rassembleurs-d-energies-initiative) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Teja Ventures

VC Fund · Jakarta, Indonesia

Teja Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm in Asia investing in consumer technology startups. We focus on the future of retail, food and wellness and are looking for digitally native next-generation category leaders in the consumer space.

3 contacts available at Teja Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cecil Y. Ang | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cecil-y-ang |
| Virginia Tan | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/virginia-tan |
| Zack Yang | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zack-yang |

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## FAQ

### What does Virginia Tan invest in?

Virginia Tan invests primarily in Apps, Sales and Solar startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Virginia Tan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Virginia Tan closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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