Who co-founded Grab with Anthony Tan?

Who co-founded Grab with Anthony Tan? Tan Hooi Ling co-founded Grab with Anthony Tan.

The pair met while studying at Harvard Business School and developed a plan for a mobile app that could connect passengers with nearby taxi drivers. Their concept was inspired partly by safety and reliability problems in Malaysia. They launched the first version, called MyTeksi, in June 2012.

Tan Hooi Ling later became Grab’s chief operating officer, focusing on areas including product, human resources, and customer experience. She announced in 2023 that she would step down from Grab’s official positions by the end of that year. A common mix-up is to identify Grab’s later executives or investors as co-founders; the founding pair were Tan Hooi Ling and Anthony Tan.