Scarlett Chen is Managing Partner at Verge HealthTech Fund, a VC fund manager focused exclusively on impactful HealthTech startups at a global scale and at the early stage.
Ms Chen is a passionate healthtech investor whose vision is to positively impact human lives by enhancing accessibility, affordability, and quality in the healthcare industry. She has invested in 24 HealthTech startups in her personal and professional capacity.
Previously as Managing Director at Prudential Corporation Asia, Ms Chen was responsible for Strategic Investments, where she invested in multiple early-stage startups that became unicorns or near-unicorns. Before Prudential, Ms. Chen worked at Anbang Capital as Global Head of Financial Institutions Group where she led a number of high profile outbound investments into banks and insurance companies in Europe and Asia.
Before joining the buy-side, Ms. Chen was an investment banker for over a decade, having worked at Merrill Lynch in the US and Barclays in Hong Kong, where she executed more than US$30 billion in capital markets and advisory transactions. Ms Scarlett is also a speaker at Beyond Activ World in Singapore.