Richard Lim is the co-founder and Managing Director of GSR Ventures, a global venture capital firm he started in 2004. See contact routes.
Richard Lim is the co-founder and Managing Director of GSR Ventures, a global venture capital firm he started in 2004, with a background as a serial entrepreneur and former executive at Lotus Development Corp. and the National University Hospital of Singapore. He focuses on early-stage investments where artificial intelligence is applied to transform healthcare, enterprise, and consumer sectors, primarily in the US, China, and Southeast Asia. GSR Ventures typically acts as the first institutional investor, leading seed rounds and retaining the capacity to pro rata through Series B or C, with an annual investment volume of $50–$200 million across 15–20 deals. Notable portfolio companies include Didi, Ele.me, and Qunar, which Lim’s firm backed as their first investors before these companies scaled to valuations over $10 billion. Lim has publicly emphasized that since 2014, AI has become a central theme in GSR’s strategy, with the vast majority of investments by 2016–2017 containing an AI component. He holds an MBBS from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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