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.
In Their Own Words
I don't fire somebody because their design sucks, but I've fired some who have no passion for the product.
Razer, founded and run by Min-Liang Tan for two decades, is prepping to release cutting-edge AI tools to help game developers produce games faster and cheaper and to coach players to sharpen their skills.
Razer boasts on its website as being the “only gaming company that has designed dedicated left-handed gaming mice,” with Tan emphasizing to me the conception and development of the mouse wasn’t mere “marketing gimmick.”
Backed by his billionaire brother, Lucence Life Sciences founder Min-Han Tan won Medicare coverage for his cancer-detecting blood test. That’s a good start—but challenges remain to profitability.
The tech entrepreneur says he’s aiming for a sixfold increase of Razer’s physical stores over the next few years, and a public listing in the U.S. may also be on the horizon.
Zventures, the venture arm of Singapore billionaire Min-Liang Tan’s gaming hardware giant Razer, has led a $4 million funding round for TripleA, a crypto payment startup based in Singapore.
Razer founder Min-Liang Tan has spearheaded a carefully cultivated brand of cool for gamers, by gamers. We caught up with him at the Forbes Under 30 Summit Asia in Hong Kong.
Min-Liang Tan has spearheaded a carefully cultivated brand of cool for gamers, by gamers. It's a strategy that has paid off for the founder of Razer, who's now worth $1.6 billion.
BY JESSICA TAN - Gaming company Razer recently conducted its IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange, closing 18% above its initial public offering price of HKD3.88 a share. As a result, its founder Tan Min-Liang is now worth upwards of $1.6B.
This evening at London’s Science Museum in South Kensington, Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan announced Razer’s entry into a brand new market. The manufacturer knowing for high-end and stylish gaming laptops and accessories launched its first smartphone, the self-titled Razer Phone.
Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan says Razer Cat, the first tournament-ready controller for the Xbox One won't again get banned for being illegal. He does say the controller is absolutely unfair... a strong selling point no doubt.
Min-Liang Tan on Razer's first tournament-ready controller for Xbox One and how this time the Razer Cat won't get banned for being illegal after working closely with professional gamers and tournament runners.
