Robin Chan
Vice President
Robin Chan is a Vice President at Conductive Ventures combining broad experience in corporate development, strategy and investing roles across tech and media. He enjoys helping founders build disruptive companies and is always keen to meet the next great entrepreneur. Before joining Conductive, he was an early-stage investor at Meta.
Robin began his career as a journalist covering business and economics. Seeing firsthand how technology was reshaping the media industry, he developed an interest in innovation, which ultimately led him to venture capital.
Before joining Conductive Ventures, Robin was an early-stage investor at Meta, where he backed startups in AI, AR/VR, e-commerce, and the future of work. His investments include Inworld, LifeAt, Arrow and OlaClick. Prior to Meta, he worked in Corporate Strategy at Yahoo, helping shape the growth strategies across its portfolio after the $5 billion acquisition by Apollo.
Robin also led Corporate Development at Business Insider, driving special projects and M&A deals, including the acquisition of media startup Morning Brew. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banking associate at Goldman Sachs in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications group in New York.
Robin is a contributing author on several books about Singapore. He has an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management and a B.Sc. in International Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Perspectives
Podcast
"Running a Business is like Being GM of a Sports Team": Interview with Scott Kincaid, CFO of...
In this episode, Carey Lai and Robin Chan speak with Scott Kincaid, CFO of Zingtree, an...
Podcast
"Working With Entrepreneurs Is What Brings Us Joy": Interview with Carey Lai, Founder &...
In this inaugural episode, we interview Carey Lai, founder and managing director of Conductive...
Investment Spotlight
Why we invested in Empowerly.
Getting into one’s dream college can often be a life-changing event. But the college...
Conductive Blog
Robin Chan Promoted to Vice President at Conductive Ventures
We’re excited to share that Robin Chan has been promoted to Vice President at Conductive...
