Richard Lim
Managing Director
Richard Lim is Founder and Managing Director at Informed Ventures, where he invests in early-stage companies applying AI to transform healthcare and enterprise markets. He is particularly fascinated by the opportunity for technology and particularly AI to transform our lives through rapidly growing startups.
Richard was an entrepreneur before starting GSR Ventures where he was the first investor in several companies that scaled from inception to multi-billion-dollar revenue enterprises—spanning both consumer and enterprise domains—and brings this rare blend of operational expertise and strategic vision to each startup he partners with.
Prior to Informed Ventures, Richard served as an executive at Lotus Development Corp. and the National University Hospital of Singapore, bridging cutting-edge technologies and patient care. With an MBBS from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from Stanford University (where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar), he merges clinical insights with hands-on entrepreneurial acumen to guide founders through go-to-market challenges, product strategy, and the full arc of organizational growth.
Richard is actively engaged with Menlo Church where he is particularly interested in the intersection of Faith, Work and Technology. He also enjoys rejuvenating walks around the SF Bay Area and finding great restaurants that serve healthy food with his wife.
Featured Companies
Medable is on a mission to reduce clinical trial timelines by 50 percent. The company’s global decentralized trial platform streamlines design, recruitment, retention and data quality, replacing siloed systems with integrated digital tools, data and interfaces to accelerate trial execution. Medable connects patients, sites and clinical trial teams to improve patient access, experience, and outcomes.
RED (Xiaohongshu) is a social media platform that blends shopping, e-commerce, user-generated content and reviews, all while connecting consumers to global retailers. Users can record their life in the form of short videos, images and text, and interact with others across a variety of interests such as beauty, fashion, food, travel, and fitness.
Firework empowers brands, retailers, and publishers to engage users on their own digital properties with livestreaming, shoppable videos, and short video stories.
jaris provides a horizontal merchant-financing solution that embeds in payment-enabled software, supported by an end-to-end bank supply-chain. Offline and online merchants alike can access a complete suite of financial services right from their point-of-sale terminals.
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