Axel Tan

Axel has over 12 years of experience deploying venture investments in transport, logistics, agrifood tech, wellbeing, and sustainability. He has built venture capital teams from the bottom up, designing strategies to enable family offices, corporates, and ecosystem partners to seek transformative innovation.

Prior to joining OCTAVE Capital as Investment Director, Axel was Venture Partner at IMC Ventures and set up the Octave Wellbeing Economy Fund, where he oversaw investments across the maritime, logistics, and wellbeing sectors. Earlier in his career, Axel founded Momentum Venture Capital, a transport-focused corporate VC arm where he built a global portfolio of investments. This maiden fund found success in IPO and early exits, as well as joint ventures, new business formation, and an industry-wide innovation platform.

Axel actively supports the startup ecosystem as a mentor, angel investor, and panellist in venture and innovation forums.

He holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD and Tsinghua University.