Mei Tong

Mei Tong is a General Partner (also described across sources as Partner and COO) at Teja Ventures, a Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 that invests in consumer technology across emerging Asia. She is one of the firm's core general partners alongside founding and managing partner Virginia Tan, the co-founder of the She Loves Tech global startup competition.

Before venture capital, Mei built a senior career in cross-border consumer investing and corporate development, centered on China. She held senior roles at two established Chinese private equity firms, where she led cross-border investments in personal care, consumer goods, and the mother-and-baby category. Earlier, she served as VP of Strategy and M&A at Walmart China, where she led the company's acquisition of the e-commerce platform Yihaodian.com — one of the most significant foreign e-commerce plays in China at the time. She also held roles at Kimberly-Clark China, including company spokesperson, Group Treasurer, and Director of Corporate Development.

This operating and dealmaking background makes her a consumer-sector specialist: she brings deep experience in retail, personal care, and consumer M&A to Teja's thesis of backing companies reshaping how the Asian middle class consumes. Public records also indicate she studied at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

At Teja, Mei complements Virginia Tan's gender-and-technology sourcing engine (She Loves Tech, which operates in 70+ countries) with hands-on consumer investing and portfolio-building expertise, supporting a portfolio that now spans roughly 22 companies concentrated in Indonesia and Singapore.

• Invests at seed and Series A in technology-driven consumer companies serving the fast-growing Asian middle class, whose consumption is expected to roughly double across the region by 2030.
• Sector priorities: future of food, future of retail, future of wellness, creator economy, circular economy, financial inclusion, and digital pharmacy/healthtech.
• Firm thesis (stated): backs "emerging outliers which serve the most pressing needs of the Asian middle class," with a dual focus on impact and innovation — material and financial security, conscious consumption, and healthier living.
• Strong tilt toward female-founded and female-focused companies, sourced early through the She Loves Tech network — often before generalist ASEAN VCs see them.
• Looks for disruptors and category-defining founders building scalable, tech-enabled solutions against large market opportunities.
• Mei's personal edge: consumer, retail, and personal-care/mother-and-baby expertise plus cross-border China M&A experience, useful for companies eyeing regional or China-linked expansion.