Alan Tang

Chief of Staff to startups & scaleups | Mentor to Founders | Angel Investor | Passionate about Education | Protecting leaseholders from unfair service charges | Social Impact Entrepreneur

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Oct 2023
Eco-friendly, protective packaging solutions for a range of market sectors including boardsports, drinks, cosmetics, electronics, homeware and commercial. Environmentally friendly Where possible, we use material made from over 85% recycled paper pulp while all virgin paper is FSC certified. All our packaging is curbside recyclable, biodegradable and compostable in 6 weeks. To date, with the help from our customers, we have removed over 1641km of plastic from the packaging industry. Flexible & easy to assemble Designed to be user-friendly, all our packaging is intuitive to assemble and uses minimal material, making it easy to slot into the production process. With the sleeve expanding to 35 times its compact size, our packaging is adaptable and can be applied across a wide range of applications. Cost efficient One pallet of Flexi-Hex is equivalent to five pallets of bubble wrap, reducing shipping and storage costs and ultimately the impact on our environment Customisable In the growing world of e-commerce, packaging is often a consumer’s first interaction with a brand. That’s why our boxes and wraps can be fully customised with your company branding.
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Mar 2023
Substack is a new media app that connects you with the creators, ideas, and communities you care about most. Founded in 2017, Substack is building a new economic engine for culture by putting publishers in charge and enabling subscribers to support the work they deeply value. There are more than 5 million paid subscriptions to writers and creators across the Substack network.
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Oct 2022
Raspberry is Europes fastest growing investment syndicate, bringing together serial-entrepreneurs, corporate executives and angels to invest in high impact European AI and Climate Tech technology companies. We are transforming the fundraising and investing experience for the founders and private investors in these core verticals. Each month, we review hundreds of investment opportunities and invite Raspberry Syndicate members to join us in investing in 1-2 cherry-picked startups alongside top-performing VC funds. Our vision is to be the most founder- and private-investor-friendly ClimateTech/AI syndicate in Europe with at least €100m in virtual dry powder deployed annually.
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Apr 2022
Unlock your childs hidden abilities | designed at the SpaceX lab school | ages 7+
early stageEducation
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Apr 2022
Nothing exists to make tech feel exciting again. We’re building a different kind of company, one that puts design, emotion, and human creativity at the heart of everything we do. From the way our products look to how they sound, feel, and function, we care about the details that make technology not just useful, but inspiring. This is a place for the curious. The creators. The ones who ask why not and mean it. If youre drawn to bold ideas, fast moves, and work that actually makes you feel something, you’ll fit right in. Were not here to follow the rules. Were here to make better ones. Founded in London in 2020, Nothing is a design-led tech company building an alternative to the industry giants. Our products, from award-winning smartphones to expressive audio and wearables, blend iconic design with intuitive engineering to put people and creativity back at the centre of consumer tech. Backed by GV (Google Ventures), EQT Ventures, C Ventures, and influential investors like Tony Fadell (iPod), Casey Neistat, and Kevin Lin (Twitch), we’ve grown from startup to global challenger in just a few years.
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Jan 2022
CLUBZERØ is the leading Reuse Deposit Return Platform driving economic development and impact for governments, asset managers and brands worldwide through scalable technology, returnable packaging and infrastructure unlocking zero waste. As businesses face increasing pressure to comply with tightening regulations like EPR, plastic bans, net-zero goals and rising packaging taxes, our platform offers immediate cost savings and regulatory compliance in one integrated platform—transforming environmental responsibility from a burden into a competitive advantage. With 141 million tonnes of plastic packaging produced annually and only 9% successfully recycled, the majority ends up in landfills, oceans, or destroys habitats. Our comprehensive approach encompasses the entire zero-waste ecosystem: smart returnable packaging, strategically placed collection infrastructure, efficient logistics, washing facilities, and redistribution services. This full-service model achieves up to 93% reduction in CO₂ emissions compared to single-use alternatives (verified by a Life Cycle Assessment) while generating valuable data that satisfies increasingly stringent reporting requirements. What distinguishes CLUBZERØ is our proprietary SaaS technology that transforms packaging into a tracked multi-use asset. Each container carries a unique identifier enabling complete lifecycle visibility and generating actionable consumer and environmental insights. This data empowers businesses to demonstrate regulatory compliance while optimizing their operations for sustainability and cost-efficiency. Since launching, our award-winning system has eliminated over 2.6 million single-use items from landfill and prevented 39 tonnes of CO₂ emissions.
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Sep 2021
Restoring the worlds native forests to address climate change, renew biodiverse ecosystems, and support thriving communities. Reforest the future.
Experience · 13 entries
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2023
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Oct 2023
Eco-friendly, protective packaging solutions for a range of market sectors including boardsports, drinks, cosmetics, electronics, homeware and commercial. Environmentally friendly Where possible, we use material made from over 85% recycled paper pulp while all virgin paper is FSC certified. All our packaging is curbside recyclable, biodegradable and compostable in 6 weeks. To date, with the help from our customers, we have removed over 1641km of plastic from the packaging industry. Flexible & easy to assemble Designed to be user-friendly, all our packaging is intuitive to assemble and uses minimal material, making it easy to slot into the production process. With the sleeve expanding to 35 times its compact size, our packaging is adaptable and can be applied across a wide range of applications. Cost efficient One pallet of Flexi-Hex is equivalent to five pallets of bubble wrap, reducing shipping and storage costs and ultimately the impact on our environment Customisable In the growing world of e-commerce, packaging is often a consumer’s first interaction with a brand. That’s why our boxes and wraps can be fully customised with your company branding.
Co-Founder
Jul 2023
At CoLab, students meet online for 1 hour per week to work on team challenges. CoLab was founded by a team of educators, engineers and parents who wanted more from the modern education system. Our mission is to nurture childrens curiosity, foster collaboration, and cultivate their problem-solving abilities. Were creating a community where kids can develop into compassionate and productive global citizens.
early stageEducation
Investor
Mar 2023
Substack is a new media app that connects you with the creators, ideas, and communities you care about most. Founded in 2017, Substack is building a new economic engine for culture by putting publishers in charge and enabling subscribers to support the work they deeply value. There are more than 5 million paid subscriptions to writers and creators across the Substack network.
Venture Support
Mar 2023
The Portfolio Collective (TPC) is on a mission to help professionals understand, launch, manage and grow successful portfolio careers. We’re a community of passionate and friendly professionals, all working towards the same goal: to empower you to have the life and career you’ve always wanted. And we do that through sharing opportunities, providing training and bringing our members together to learn and develop as a collective.
2022
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Oct 2022
Raspberry is Europes fastest growing investment syndicate, bringing together serial-entrepreneurs, corporate executives and angels to invest in high impact European AI and Climate Tech technology companies. We are transforming the fundraising and investing experience for the founders and private investors in these core verticals. Each month, we review hundreds of investment opportunities and invite Raspberry Syndicate members to join us in investing in 1-2 cherry-picked startups alongside top-performing VC funds. Our vision is to be the most founder- and private-investor-friendly ClimateTech/AI syndicate in Europe with at least €100m in virtual dry powder deployed annually.
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