Tianyi Zhou

Tianyi Zhou is an investment director at Linear Capital, where he has been quoted in firm communications dating back to at least early 2023 . In that role he conducts portfolio interviews—speaking with founders of Linear-backed companies such as Deep Principle Technology, a 2024 MIT-founded AI-for-materials startup , and BTRY, a Swiss solid-state battery company that raised seed funding in late 2025 . He has also appeared as a recommender in Linear's media channels, once citing the novel *The Lychees of Chang'an* as a "great entrepreneurship story" . In Linear's 2025 year-end network voice collection, Zhou framed the year as "a watershed," quoting a *One Piece* line that "there are no tickets for the old generation on the ship to the new world" . The bundle does not contain biographical details such as his educational background or prior career history.