German Aerospace Center
德国宇航局
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is a European research institution that has become a notable talent pipeline for Chinese venture-backed robotics startups. Linear Capital, a Chinese VC firm, has repeatedly sourced founders from DLR—most prominently the core team behind Agile Robots (思灵机器人), which Peter Meusel described as Harry and his team having "picked us from DLR and the rest is history" . Linear's 2018 angel-round bet on that founding team reportedly returned "more than 100x" and helped establish the firm's thesis of backing technical entrepreneurs emerging from European research labs . DLR is grouped alongside Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute in Linear's portfolio as one of the European institutions whose alumni the firm actively tracks .
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