Vickers Venture eyeing early-stage investments in India: Finian Tan

Vickers Venture eyeing early-stage investments in India: Finian Tan

Finian Tan, chairman of Vickers Venture Partners. Photo: Bloomberg

Finian Tan will be remembered as the man who backed China’s Baidu in 2000 when nobody else would. Five years later, Baidu’s listing on Nasdaq would go down as one of the best IPOs in the history of the US-based stock exchange. Today, Baidu, referred to as China’s equivalent of search engine giant Google, is worth over $80 billion in market value.

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