Lee was the first woman venture capitalist to break into the top 10 of Forbes Midas List in 2015.

[5] Lee was born in Singapore to a Chinese schoolteacher father and a housewife mother.

She was a student of CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School and Hwa Chong Junior College.

While working with GGV, the firm invested in startups such as Alibaba, Didi Chuxing, Xiaomi, Toutiao, and Grab.

[9] In March 2024, Lee and Jixun Foo led the newly formed firm, Granite Asia after it was split off from GGV Capital.