Jenny Lee is a Singaporean venture capitalist. She is a senior managing partner at Granite Asia. She leads global investor relations and investment strategy and was instrumental in setting up GGV’s first China office in 2005 and re-opening the Singapore office in 2019. A self-starter, an investor and an entrepreneur, Lee spent the last 23 years overseas and is frequently the first to invest in new innovative applications and products.
She is best known for investments in sectors like Edtech, Fintech, Food and Agritech, Metaverse, and Energy Sustainability and Automation Technologies. Her portfolio includes 21 companies valued at over $1 billion each. She has had 17 IPOs up to date, including 4 recent IPOs since 2021, across 5 different global exchanges, and numerous portfolio company exits via M&A. Lee’s global investment track record over two decades and early operation and finance work experience with Singapore Aerospace in Singapore; Morgan Stanley, and JAFCO Asia in Hong Kong enhanced her role as a preferred board member with deep domain expertise and global investment experience.
Born and raised in Singapore, Lee is highly respected in the Asia business community and serves as a board member of Temasek since 2022. She also serves on the governing boards of both Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Duke-NUS Medical School. In addition, she is a member of Singapore’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council; Singapore Business Federation; Future Economy Advisory Panel; Asia Business Council; and the International Advisory Council of Edmond de Rothschild. Lee has been a member of the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas list since 2012 and was the first woman to break the top 10 in 2015. She was also recognised by Forbes as one of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in the past 3 years (2022-2024).
In 2019, Lee was named to the Forbes Asia Power Businesswomen 25 list and received the Business Times’s Outstanding Overseas Executive Award. In 2016, she was named to the Vanity Fair New Establishment list, Fast Company Most Creative People in Business list, and is consistently recognised by The New York Times and CB Insights among the top 100 venture capital investors worldwide, ranking #8 among top venture capitalists in Asia. Lee graduated from Cornell University with an M.S. and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
She was formerly a managing partner of GGV Capital based in Shanghai. Lee was No. 10 and the first woman venture capitalist in the top 10 of Forbes Midas List 2015, and in 2016, she ranked 100th in Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women list.
Lee is also a board member at Temasek International and a member of Asia Business Council. As a self-professed geek, Lee firmly believes that only the entrepreneurs who are passionate about products will be able to create new models and new products. As an investor, Lee is focused on finding and partnering with disruptive technology companies that can change the traditional business models and create new value for users and enterprises.
Since 2011, Lee has been recognized by the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas List of top venture capitalists every year, ranking as the #1 woman and #10 overall in 2015. In 2016, she was named to the Vanity Fair New Establishment list, Fast Company Most Creative People in Business list and was recognized by The New York Times and CB Insights among the top 100 venture capital investors worldwide, ranking #17 and one of the only two selected from Mainland China. Lee is also the recipient of Business China's Young Achiever Award, prestigious recognition awarded by the Singapore Deputy Prime Minister for helping to foster relationships between China and Singapore through technology and investment.
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