Lan founded Basis Set, one of the only early-stage venture firms focused on and enabled by AI/Machine Learning and Automation since 2017, with $300M+ Asset Under Management. She's one of the earliest investors in Scale AI, Path, Workstream, Ergeon, Quince etc. Lan built the Corporate Development Strategy team at Dropbox, worked at McKinsey in New York and Shanghai, and built children's brain training games. She studied Psychology for her Ph.D. and received her MA in Statistics from the University of Michigan.