Hourstec
沃时科技
Hourstec (沃时科技) is an AI pharmaceutical industrial platform that applies computational methods across drug development stages, from chemical synthesis and process design to scale-up manufacturing . The company raised nearly $10 million in a Pre-A round in 2021, co-led by 5Y Capital and Matrix Partners China, with Linear Capital as a returning investor . Linear Capital, which had backed Hourstec earlier, continued to feature it among portfolio companies at vertical-AI industry events through 2023 . The founding team was described by 5Y Capital as bringing together expertise in both AI and pharmaceutical process development . elsewhere's corpus does not cover more recent developments beyond this 2021-2023 window.
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Striving to become China's best frontier tech and innovation fund.
Linear Capital | Linear Path, Nonlinear Growth
Striving to become China's best frontier technology and innovation fund.
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