Linear Venture
Investment Details
Investor Type
Venture Capital
Asset Class Focus
Venture Capital
Stage Focus
Seed, Early Stage, Series A, Series B
Geographical Focus
United States, Germany, China, Switzerland
Industries Focus
- Healthcare
- FinTech
- Artificial Intelligence
- Gaming
- Medical Devices
- Robotics
- Information Technology
- Internet of Things
- Consumer Electronics
- Enterprise Software
- Data Analytics
- Virtual Reality
- Augmented Reality
- Marketing
- Advertising
Investment Size:
1,000,000 to 10,000,000 USD
Investor Details Founded: 2014
Linear Venture is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in frontier technology applications. Founded in 2014 by Harry Wang, Facebook's first Chinese R&D manager, the firm manages 10 funds with assets under management exceeding $2 billion. Linear Venture has consistently prioritized a technology-driven approach, identifying startups at the earliest stages that excel at applying advanced technologies to solve real-world problems.
The firm's investment strategy focuses on frontier technology applications, with core sectors including AI software and applications, AI hardware and embodied intelligence, and AI for science and manufacturing, such as energy, materials, and biotech. Linear Venture typically leads investments from angel to Series A stages, with standard commitments ranging from $1 million to $10 million per project, though exceptions may apply for exceptional cases.
Since its inception, Linear Venture has supported over 170 technology startups in their early stages, including Horizon Robotics, Agile Robots, Manycore Tech, EHang, Rokid, Tezign, Whale, TARS, Rino.ai, RIVR, and Deep Principle. The combined valuation of its investment portfolio has reached approximately $30 billion. The firm's short-term goal is to build the best Data Intelligence Technology Fund, and in the long term, it aims to become the best Frontier Technology Application Fund.
Requirements
- Data-driven
- AI-driven
- Commercially applicable
Contact
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Portfolio Companies
- Horizon Robotics
- Agile Robots
- Manycore Tech
- EHang
- Rokid
- Tezign
- Whale
- TARS
- Rino.ai
- RIVR
- Deep Principle
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