Fangbo Tao
陶芳波
Fangbo Tao is the founder and CEO of Mindverse, an AGI startup he established in January 2022 after leaving Facebook on his 30th birthday . He previously worked at Facebook, a background he shares with Linear Capital's Wang Huai, one of Mindverse's angel investors . Tao's technical approach at Mindverse centers on what he calls a "Mind Framework" — integrating macro-level brain science architectures with micro-level neural network processing capabilities, including large models and computer vision . The company initially developed MindOS, an AI Agent tool allowing users to create digital assistants and characters , and later launched Second Me, an open-source "AI social network" project that gained over 13,400 GitHub stars within three weeks as of mid-2025 . Tao has been recognized in 36Kr's "X·36Under36" list (2022) and "2023 Sci-Tech Innovators" list . In a 2023 discussion on AI's impact, he framed the technology divide starkly: "drowning people or gold miners" — when steam trains arrived, he asked, did they only affect carriage drivers?
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Linear Voice: 2025 in the Linear Capital Network
Those real and important moments.
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Let expression and connection break free from the constraints of time, place, and state.
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Good Game.
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Consensus can form quickly — and dissolve just as fast.
暗涌Waves·Multiple founders from Linear Capital's portfolio companies have been selected for 36Kr's "2023 Sci-Tech Innovators" list.
Last week, 36Kr released its "2023 Sci-Tech Innovators" list. In its introduction, 36Kr highlighted the opportunities and divides it discovered through interviews and research on scientist entrepreneurship: "After two months of open nominations, we still found a group of innovators willing to stay in the arena and attempt to bridge that divide. As representatives of technological innovation grown from Chinese soil, their existence continues to point toward the many possibilities of translating research into commerce." Among them, WeiJian Technology, a portfolio company of Linear Capital,
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frontier technology, frontier productivity, frontier lifestyle — all for a better society.
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On February 28, ChinaVenture hosted a closed-door salon in Shanghai on the "AI Singularity," focusing on the impact of ChatGPT on entrepreneurship and investment in artificial intelligence. Zheng Can, Managing Director of Linear Capital, and Fangbo Tao, founder and CEO of Mindverse — an angel-round portfolio company of Linear Capital — attended the event and shared their perspectives on the topic. **Zheng Can noted that Linear Capital had already been tracking the AIGC space and had made multiple investments in the sector.**
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"Some people laughed. Some people cried. The vast majority fell silent."
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Released the AI character generation engine MindOS.
线性资本·Multiple founders and executives from Linear Capital's portfolio companies have been selected for 36Kr's "X·36Under36" list.
On the evening of June 9, 36Kr unveiled the "X·36Under36 S-Class Young Entrepreneurs List." This marks the sixth year that 36Kr has published its "36 Under 36" list. Unlike previous editions, this year 36Kr elevated "36 Under 36" to the "X·36Under36 S-Class Young Entrepreneurs List," with the aim of identifying more potentially great Chinese entrepreneurs at an earlier stage. **Among the honorees, 13 are founders of portfolio companies backed by Linear Capital.**
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The MindOS framework endows AI with associative mechanisms, enabling enterprises to deploy customized virtual minds.
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