Min-Liang Tan

Net worth over time

Biography

• Min-Liang Tan gave up a law career in Singapore to start gaming devices company Razer in 2005.
• Its early backers include IDG-Accel, Temasek Holdings, Intel and Li Ka-shing's Horizon Ventures. The company has acquired a huge global following and sold millions of gaming laptops, mice, fitness bands and tablets.
• Tan listed the firm in Hong Kong in 2017, raising $529 million.
• Tan expanded Razer in Asia with the acquisition of Malaysian virtual currency firm MOL Global, and tie-ups with SingTel, Lazada and China's JD.com.
• In 2022, Tan and Lim Kaling, who is a founding investor and director at Razer, took the company private in a deal that valued it at $3.2 billion.
• Diehard Razer fans sport tattoos of the brand's logo.
• Razer acquired THX, the audio company founded by Star Wars director George Lucas, in 2016 and Android smartphone maker Nextbit in 2017.
• Tan is a key investor in Lucence, a Singapore- and Palo Alto-headquartered biotech company that provides cancer blood tests, founded by his older Min-Han in 2016.

Financial assets