Yiran Qin

Investment Lead

2024 - Current

VT is community of 150+ leading founder operator angel investors across Europe.

Scout

2022

Bold Investment for overlooked founders and markets - working with this VC fund (pre-Series A investor with a first cheque of £100k - £1 million) to find the most exciting new start-ups. Get in touch if you're building something that will change the world!

Member

2023

Director

2023 - 2024

Leading our accelerator programmes, first ticket investments, and origination.

Head of Programs

2022 - 2023

Supporting & Investing in early-stage (Pre-seed - Series A) EdTech startups globally by leading our flagship 12-week accelerator.

Program Director

2021 - 2022

SuperCharger Ventures is the first EdTech accelerator dedicated to both early-stage and growth-stage startup companies to fuel their global expansion. Our 12-week program focuses on 3 key aspects: - Acquiring growth capital for your expansion - Scaling your business development - Growing your EdTech To date, SuperCharger Ventures has supported startups to raise over $500m and executing 400+ commercial deals. We currently have 83 EdTech portfolio companies. Build the future of education with us.

Program Manager

2021 - 2021

Future VC is a non-profit organization that provides access to internships at VC firms around the globe. My role was to facilitate the logistics of the Autumn 2021 cohort which had 40+ funds and 200+ final stage applicants.

Founder

2019 - 2021

Nummy is the mobile app that aims to disrupt the social and dating scene in London by creating a community for foodies. (Update: due to Covid-19 and social distancing, we will be suspending our table-sharing servies for the time being) Our table-sharing app is currently available on the App Store & Google Play!

Account Manager

2020 - 2020

Associate - Special Projects

2020 - 2020

CFTE (Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship) is an education platform supported by senior leaders from the largest institutions, startups and universities. We aim to address the needs of professionals in finance and technologists to upskill in a rapidly changing industry being transformed by emerging technologies. In a tech world, we bet on people. CFTE special projects focus on ventures with medium-term hedge with long-term upside. Projects currently include: - exploring alternative financing for online education - managing covid-19 contingency plan for corporate clients - leading online workshop and seminars with industry experts - driving B2B business development Past projects: - Planned, executed and led a full day virtual EdTech conference with 12 expert speakers, over 400 registrations and 198 attendees - institutionalising CFTE in higher education

QConsult Project Coordinator

2018 - 2018

QConsult is Queen Mary, University of London's consultancy project to offer current students the opportunity to gain valuable, project management and consultancy work experience during term time. I was selected to be the project coordinator of a team of 5 students from the School of Business and Management to work together to conduct a consultancy project regarding student communication over the course of the second semester. Our Team reports directly to the QMUL School of Business and Management's Head of Adminstration.

Front Office

2015 - 2017

Shangri-La Hotel, At the Shard, London is a flagship 5 star luxury hotel with 202 rooms and suites located in the heart of London. - Responsible for training new colleagues and creating the standard of procedure documents for the rooms division. - Created and implemented the improvement of pre-arrival experience for Jade and Diamond Members of the Golden Circle loyalty programme. - Acted as the first point of contact for guest complaints and service recovery. - Top Upseller for a total of 5 months. - Employee Engagement Champion for the Front Office Team

Front Office Management Trainee

2014 - 2014

Hotel Indigo Shanghai on the Bund is a Luxury Boutique hotel within the IHG brand located in the heart of Shanghai. Duties: Check-in, Check-out, Welcome guests, Dealing with guest complaints and requests, night audit, Phone operator, Handling Reservations, Cashiering, Supervising