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Lan Xuezhao

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Smart Money Rating: 98 out of 100

Founder & Partner, Basis Set Ventures

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Basis Set Ventures
Title
Founder & Partner
Role
General partner
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Record updated 17 September 2026

About

Lan is an entrepreneur and investor. She founded Basis Set to create universal abundance by uniting the power of machine intelligence with human ingenuity. Since making her first seed investment in Scale in 2016, she has become one of the earliest investors in dozens of startups, often leading their seed rounds. These companies have grown to a total value exceeding $20 billion in a short amount of time.

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Background

Education
She holds an M.A. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, where she now serves as a board member at the School of Information.Source (opens in a new tab)

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