James Chan (陈亮宏 , born 7 August 1981) is a Singaporean born and American educated geek, scholar, photographer and venture capitalist. Despite his brief 3-odd years of work experience, James was fortunate to have gained extensive exposure to the venture capital and technology start-up ecosystems in Singapore and USA.

James was most recently a member of the investment team at Walden International Singapore managing Seed Ventures IV Pte Ltd (S4), a new fund organized under the National Research Foundation's Early Stage Venture Capital Fund Scheme that was focused on making investments into early-stage technology companies in Singapore.

Prior to that, James was part of the team that restarted operations in July 2007 at Infocomm Investments (IIPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore which managed assets in excess of US$200 million. Apart from being on the investment team managing IIPL's existing portfolio and co-investing alongside private-sector VCs into Singapore-based growth-stage infocomm companies, James was also involved in the engagement and account management of foreign VC-funded infocomm start-ups, and policy and incentive formulation and implementation, so as to promote Singapore as a location for their offshore R&D and Engineering operations.

A recipient of the EDB Singapore Inc. Overseas Scholarship, James graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Double Major: B.Sc in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy, and spurned cold dreary Boston and MIT for the warmer and more welcoming sun and shores of California to complete his M. Sc in Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University. In his spare time, James pens his East-meets-West thoughts on technology, venture capital and entrepreneurship on his personal blog.