Tara Tan

Tara Tan is founder and Managing Partner of Strange Ventures, an early stage VC fund that seeks to be the first creative partners to bold technology founders. She spent the last 7 years investing at global design and strategy firm IDEO, achieving a top-quartile track record across two institutional funds. Prior to investing, Tara was an operator and founder. She led design at an early-stage deep tech unicorn and founded an interactive media company that created the world’s first location-based game in 2012. She is a frequent speaker on the power of design in venture, and has been invited to speak at SXSW, SF Design Week, and more. She holds a Masters in Design and Technology from Harvard, where she was co-Chair of Women in Design and a fellow at the Harvard Graduate Leadership Program.