[3] She is the CEO of Intrinsic, a robotics software company under Alphabet Inc.[4] She was previously a partner at BGF, a £2.5bn growth capital fund focusing on early stage ventures.

[3] Tan White is a board trustee of the Alan Turing Institute and member of the Digital Economic Council.

[8] Tan White studied at Kendrick Grammar School before earning a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science at Imperial College London in 1992.

[9] In January 2000, she, Eirik Pettersen, and Joe White launched Moonfruit, the first SAAS website builder.

[11][14] During her time away from Moonfruit, Tan White completed a master's degree in design, helped launch the Zopa peer-to-peer lending website, and worked as a director at Gandi.

[17] In 2015, Tan White became a general partner of Entrepreneur First[18] along with her husband Joe White helping to raise EF's Next Stage Fund[19] and mentoring 21 deep tech companies which have been funded including PassFort, OpenCosmos, CloudNC, Automata, CleoAI,[20] Accurx, Xihelm and Brolly.

[3] In July 2021, Tan White and team launched Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company spun out of X that she would lead.

Tan White was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to technology businesses.

[32] In 2013, Computer Weekly named Tan White a "Rising Star" as part of their "Most Influential Women in UK IT" campaign.