German Aerospace Center
德国宇航中心
The German Aerospace Center — DLR, short for Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt — is a prominent European research institution that has served as an origin point for several Chinese venture-backed startups. Linear Capital, a China-based VC firm, has specifically sourced founders from DLR; its star portfolio company Agile Robots (思灵机器人) was founded by a team "picked from DLR," as core member Peter Meusel put it, with Linear leading the angel round in 2018 and continuing to back the company for six years . Other Linear portfolio companies with DLR-linked founders include firms in robotics, medtech, and advanced materials . The center sits alongside the likes of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institutes in Linear's European academic sourcing strategy .
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