Garry Tan Overview
- Investor Type
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Angel
- Status
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Active
- Professionals
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1

- Investments
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145
- Portfolio
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59
- Exits
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81

Garry Tan General Information
Description
Mr. Garry Tan is the Founder & serves as a Board Partner at Initialized Capital Management. Mr. Tan serves as President & Chief Executive Officer at Y Combinator. He is an Angel Investor. He served as a Board Member at Truepill and Zeus Living. He serves as a Board Member at Safeheron. He was a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at Initialized Capital. He serves as a Board Member at TigerEye Labs. He also served as a Board Member at Mezmo. He served as a Board Member at Trunk, Helm, Triplebyte, and Simple Healthkit. He serves as a Board Member at Standard Cognition, Career Karma, Bodyport, and Tagstand. He served as a Partner at Y Combinator. He served as an Advisor at Bitaccess & MixRank. He served as a Board Member at Formic He was part of the board of various startups including Privacy Labs. He also served as a Board Member at Salus Labs and True Link Financial. Previously, he was the Co-Founder of Posterous, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2008 and acquired by Twitter in 2012. He served as an Advisor at Summon (Automotive). Before that, he was employee #10 at Palantir, where he was a founding member of the engineering team for Palantir Finance and also designed Palantir's logo. He also served as Strategic Advisor at UniCareer. He received a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University.
Business Details
Year Founded
Investor Status
Primary Investor Type
Corporate Office
- San Francisco, CA
- United States
Garry Tan Investments & Acquisitions (145)
Company Name | Deal Date | Deal Type | Deal Size | Industry | Company Stage | Lead Partner |
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NewLimit | 06-May-2025 | Early Stage VC | Biotechnology | Startup | ||
Rainmaker (Environmental Services) | 05-May-2025 | Environmental Services (B2B) | Generating Revenue | |||
NewLimit | 07-Jan-2025 | Biotechnology | Startup | |||
Weave Robotics | 20-Oct-2024 | Other Hardware | Product Development | |||
Odyssey (San Francisco) | 09-Jul-2024 | Multimedia and Design Software | Startup | |||
Created by Humans | 25-Jun-2024 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | |||
Bem | 06-Jun-2024 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | |||
Perplexity | 25-Mar-2024 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | |||
Foundation Health | 11-Mar-2024 | Early Stage VC | Other Healthcare Services | Generating Revenue | ||
Black Forest Labs | 01-Feb-2024 | Seed Round | Multimedia and Design Software | Generating Revenue |
Garry Tan Exits (81)
Company Name | Exit Date | Exit Type | Exit Size |
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Her Dating | 01-Apr-2025 | Merger/Acquisition | |
Priime | 01-Sep-2024 | ||
Beeper (Social/Platform Software) | 01-Apr-2024 | ||
Heap | 07-Jan-2024 | ||
Debuild | 01-Nov-2023 | ||
Instacart | 19-Sep-2023 | ||
Mode (Media and Information Services (B2B)) | 19-Jul-2023 | ||
RealCrowd | 20-Apr-2023 | ||
Soylent | 15-Feb-2023 | Merger/Acquisition | |
Campaign (Home Furnishings) | 11-Feb-2023 | Out of Business |
Garry Tan Investments by Industry, Year, and Region
Garry Tan Co-Investors (316)
Name | With | Exits | Lead Partner | Series | Industry |
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Balaji Srinivasan | 5 |
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Elad Gil |
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Liquid 2 Ventures |
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Naval Ravikant |
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Garry Tan FAQs
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Who is Garry Tan?
Garry Tan is an angel Investor who has made 145 investments.
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What kind of investor is Garry Tan?
Garry Tan is an angel investor.
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What does Garry Tan do?
As an angel investor, Garry Tan invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.
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How many board seats does Garry Tan hold?
Garry Tan holds a board seat in Safeheron.
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What has Garry Tan invested in?
Garry Tan has made numerous investments in companies like NewLimit, Rainmaker (Environmental Services), and Weave Robotics within the Biotechnology, Environmental Services (B2B), and Hardware industries.
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What has Garry Tan invested in recently?
Garry Tan's latest investment was on 06-May-2025 in NewLimit, a company within the Biotechnology industry.
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