Agile Robots
思灵机器人
Agile Robots is a robotics company that reached unicorn status after acquiring a Munich-based star robotics company and taking a strategic controlling stake in a BMW robotics subsidiary in late 2023 . Linear Capital partner Huang Songyan first discovered the founding team—fresh from the German Aerospace Center—in 2017 when most investors were fleeing the robotics sector, and led the seed round with what 暗涌Waves described as an "engineer understands engineer" advantage, then continued to back multiple subsequent rounds . By 2023 the company's valuation had surpassed $1.5 billion . Linear Capital, which led Agile Robots' angel round, has been the lead introducer for its follow-on rounds across six years of continuous investment, with Huang now based in Munich to build out the firm's European operations partly around this holding . Former Linear founding partner Harry Wang, who left in late 2023 to launch his own counter-cyclical fund, also counts Agile Robots among his past bets with "obvious technology attributes" .
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暗涌Waves·Harry Wang's Counter-Cyclical Bet — Entering the Game --- When the venture capital industry was retreating en masse, Harry Wang made a move that seemed to defy the tide. It was late 2023. The Chinese tech investment landscape lay in near-freeze — fundraising had collapsed, deal flow dried to a trickle, and even seasoned investors were sitting on their hands or pivoting to safer harbors. At Linear Capital, where Wang had spent years as a founding partner, the firm was also tightening its belt, shifting toward more conservative deployment. Wang chose the opposite path. He left. Not to retire. Not to wait out the winter. But to start something new — a fund built for exactly this moment of pessimism, when valuations had cratered and founders with real substance were being overlooked in the panic. "Everyone's talking about risk-off," Wang told me when we met in Shanghai. "But that's precisely when the best opportunities emerge. The question is whether you have the stomach for it." The new vehicle, which Wang has been quietly assembling over the past year, represents a
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