Linear Capital
Venture capitalActively deployingShanghai · Pre-Seed–Series A · 20 people tracked
Also known as LINEAR VENTURE, LTD.
Investment thesis
Linear Capital focuses on Frontier Technology Applications, backing startups that apply advanced technology at the earliest stages. Core areas include AI software and applications, AI hardware and embodied intelligence, and AI for science and manufacturing spanning energy, materials, and biotech. The firm typically leads rounds from angel to Series A, committing $1 million to $10 million per company with exceptions for standout cases. Based in China, it seeks high-quality projects worldwide and emphasizes a technology-driven approach to identifying companies solving real problems.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 20 people
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What they invest in
from 37 of 70 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×25Deep Tech ×8Enterprise Software ×8Hardware ×7Robotics ×7Advanced Manufacturing ×6Mobility & Transportation ×6Data & Infrastructure ×5
HQs:China×17United States×4Hong Kong×1Japan×1Singapore×1
Investments · 70 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12023 · 12 dated
EHang develops and manufactures pilotless electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for uses such as aerial tourism, intra-city and intercity transport, logistics, and emergency firefighting.
Deep TechHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & Transportation
Hu Huazhi(Founder)in
Co-investorsGranite AsiaPreAngel FundZhenFund
Tezign builds enterprise-grade AI agent systems and products that organize a company's proprietary content, knowledge, rules and processes into "Context" so agents can understand business goals and act on them.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechShanghai, CN
Ling Fan(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsHearst VenturesTemasekCherubic Ventures
Uniner (云钠科技) builds an enterprise AI agent platform (Woop!) that turns business requirements into deployable, governable agents, combining large language models with specialized vision, OCR, time-series and optimization models plus reusable Skills and CLI automation components.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
Co-investorsSequoia CapitalYunqi Partners
Acxel develops digital microfluidics platforms for biochemical experiments, using thin-film semiconductor processes and active-matrix technologies such as Active Pixel Lab-on-Chip (AP-LOC), AM-EWOD, and AM-DMF for high-throughput, parallel, precise microdroplet manipulation.
BiotechDeep TechSemiconductors
Yang Su(Founder)in
Co-investorsQiming Venture Partners
Agile Robots (思灵机器人) develops intelligent robotics systems combining AI with physical-world applications, with core technologies in robot perception, decision-making, force control, vision, operating systems, and deep learning.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareRobotics
Zhaopeng Chen(Founder)in
Co-investorsHongShan Capital Group
Notta provides AI-powered transcription tools available as a web app, mobile app, and Chrome extension, along with features such as AI summaries, meeting minutes, screen recording, and a sales-focused AI agent for recording and analyzing meetings and syncing with CRM.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSTokyo, JP
Yan Zhang(Founder)Ryan Zhang(Representative Director)
Co-investorsGranite AsiaPKSHA Technology Capital
AIOS builds software infrastructure for consumer healthcare that automates clinical workflows and patient management, currently operating brands like Bolt Pharmacy and Fella Health that deliver treatment at scale with minimal human intervention.
HealthtechWellness & FitnessSan Francisco, US
Richie Cartwright(Founder)in
Co-investorsStreamlined VenturesY CombinatorBosch VenturesMDI Ventures
Bot Auto is an autonomous trucking company operating a self-driving truck fleet and offering Transportation as a Service (TaaS) to major third-party logistics providers, shippers, and freight brokers.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationHouston, US
Co-investorsFirst Star VenturesUpHonest Capital
Cobo provides a digital asset custody and wallet platform for institutions such as exchanges, funds, and fintechs, offering custodial, MPC, smart contract, and exchange wallets through unified APIs and SDKs.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechHong Kong, HK
Changhao Jiang(Founder)
Co-investorsBitDAOMantle Network
D-Robotics builds robotics development infrastructure, including developer boards with a proprietary AI acceleration engine (BPU), operating systems, and open-source algorithms for edge and embodied intelligence.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareRobotics
Co-investorsMonolith Venture Advisory Limited
Datablau (数语科技) builds AI-oriented data governance and modeling software, including ontology/semantic modeling tools (DOM, DDM, OSM standard) and an agent-driven data governance system (DIG) that automates metadata completion, data classification/grading, quality-rule generation, and data lineage tracking.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
王琤(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsWI Harper Group
AI for Science (Chemistry/Materials) innovator (Hangzhou)
Haidian, CN
Chenru Duan(Founder)Haojun Jia(Founder)in
Co-investorsGobi Partners
Co-investorsPan-Lin Capital
Co-investors4impact capitalAct Venture CapitalACT Venture CapitalAmadeus Capital SAAngel Physicians FundAnkur Capital+59 more
Co-investorsNIO Capital
Final Round AI provides AI tools for interview preparation, including mock interviews, real-time interview assistance, resume building, and LinkedIn optimization.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundLevel One FundMento vcRitual CapitalTranspose Platform Management+6 more
HoJing (Hongjing Drive) develops full-stack autonomous driving software algorithms and system integration, providing customized L1–L4 intelligent driving solutions that have reached mass production across more than 30 vehicle models.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechDeep TechMobility & Transportation
Co-investorsProsperity7 VenturesTransLink CapitalTeda Venture Capital
Horizon Robotics develops software-hardware integrated smart driving technology for passenger vehicles, including its Journey automotive computing chips and the Horizon SuperDrive (HSD) end-to-end urban assisted driving system.
AI & Machine LearningMobility & TransportationSemiconductors
Co-investorsVertex Ventures ChinaZhenFund
Co-investorsSource Code Capital
Jelep (捷象灵越) builds pallet vertical-warehouse robots (VPR), latent forklift robots (E-Robot) and the JMS industrial digital platform to provide flexible automated storage and horizontal material-handling solutions.
Advanced ManufacturingLogistics & Supply ChainRobotics
Spatial intelligence enterprise powered by GPU clusters and AI technology (Hangzhou)
Co-investorsYunqi Partners
Mindos (Second Me) builds AI digital twins that learn from a person's notes, voice recordings, and ideas to reflect their personality, voice, and thinking, which can then be shared to interact with others.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeveloper ToolsSingapore, SG
Felix Tao(Founder)
Co-investorsSquare Peg CapitalYinxinggu Capital
Remio is an AI-powered personal knowledge hub that automatically captures and organizes files, meetings, emails, and web content to provide contextual assistance to knowledge workers.
AI & Machine LearningSaaS
Co-investorsHike Capital
Rino.ai develops L4 autonomous driving technology and driverless delivery vehicles for public roads, handling middle-mile and last-mile delivery for logistics, express delivery, retail chains, and closed parks.
Logistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationRobotics
RIVR develops autonomous legged robots for doorstep delivery, using real-world deployment data to improve AI through reinforcement learning and self-supervised learning.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRobotics
Co-investorsBezos Expeditions
Technology startup in Linear Capital's portfolio
Co-investorsGranite AsiaYunqi Partners
SynMetabio is a synthetic biology company that develops biomaterials, including mycelium-based leather alternatives, by cultivating fungi on agricultural byproducts such as corn cobs, straw, coffee grounds, distiller's lees, and oil.
BiotechCircular EconomyNew Materials
Trusted AI and robotics solutions provider (Shanghai)
Shenzhen Tenfong (十沣科技) develops domestic industrial simulation (CAE) software with proprietary solvers such as TF-Lattice and TF-QFLUX for high-end manufacturing R&D in aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, electronics, equipment manufacturing, and energy.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechShenzhen, CN
ThinkingData offers Agentic Engine, an enterprise AI agent platform with prebuilt domain-expert agents and 100+ skills for analytics tasks such as payment, user, retention, attribution, and campaign analysis.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSunnyvale, US
Chris Han(Founder)
Technology startup in Linear Capital's portfolio
Tongdun (小盾未来) builds AI-based decision intelligence and privacy-computing platforms, including a distributed KV database, metrics platform, and AI credit risk scoring, focused on financial risk, security risk, and government governance risk.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintechHangzhou, CN
Co-investorsChina Growth CapitalQiming Venture Partners
Company providing edge AI chips and solutions for smart driving and AIoT (SEHK: 9660).
Co-investorsHongShan Capital GroupVertex Ventures China
Stonewise develops MolVado, an AI-driven platform for small-molecule drug discovery that uses multimodal 3D molecular generation models to design candidate molecules based on protein pockets, reference fragments, or pharmacophores.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Co-investorsXiang He Capital
Sensors Data provides a data analytics and AI agent platform for enterprise digital operations, offering automated diagnosis, strategy generation, and execution for marketing and customer growth.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechBeijing, CN
wenfeng sang(Founder)桑文锋(Founder)
Co-investorsMorningside Venture Capital LimitedXiang He Capital
Guandata provides a self-service, one-stop data analytics and business intelligence (BI) platform to help enterprises build agile, data-driven decision-making capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsChina Growth CapitalXiang He Capital
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioEHangNASDAQ: EH
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesHorizon · realty.economictimes.indiatimes.com · Aug 16, 2026
EHang · stocktitan.net · Aug 14, 2026
Final Round AI · aceround.app · Aug 6, 2026
Bot · techcrunch.com · Jul 28, 2026
AIOS · solutionsreview.com · Jul 17, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Linear Capital made?
- Linear Capital has 10 tracked investments.
- What stage does Linear Capital invest at?
- Linear Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Linear Capital's typical check size?
- Linear Capital typically writes checks of $1M – $10M.
- What sectors does Linear Capital focus on?
- Linear Capital focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Hardware, New Materials, Robotics, SaaS.
- Where is Linear Capital located?
- Linear Capital is headquartered in Shanghai, CN.
- Does Linear Capital lead rounds?
- Yes, Linear Capital leads investment rounds.
- Who does Linear Capital co-invest with?
- Linear Capital most often shares deals with HongShan Capital Group, Cherubic Ventures, Gobi Partners, among 6 tracked co-investors.
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