Linear Capital colleagues won awards from ChinaVenture for 2022–2023 China Best Early-Stage Investor and Best AI Industry Investor, among others.
Last week, ChinaVenture released its "2022–2023 Investor Rankings," marking the 17th consecutive year the independent third-party organization has published its China Venture Capital and Private Equity rankings — the "ChinaVenture List." The rankings draw on CVSource data and evaluate investors across four metrics: investments, exits, portfolio projects under management, and industry influence, measured over the period from July 1, 2020, to October 31, 2023. Through
Last week, ChinaVenture released its "2022–2023 Investor Rankings," the 17th consecutive year the independent third-party institution has published its ChinaVenture Rankings for venture capital and private equity. The rankings draw on CVSource data, using investment activity, exits, portfolio management, and industry influence between July 1, 2020 and October 31, 2023 as evaluation criteria. Through questionnaire surveys, interviews, data verification, and aggregation, the data is standardized and ranked by overall score, covering 1,000 investors from over 400 institutions to comprehensively assess real market conditions and competitive dynamics.
Among the honorees, Harry Wang, founder and CEO of Linear Capital, received:
"Top 50 Best Early-Stage Investors in China 2022–2023"
"Top 20 Best AI Industry Investors in China 2022–2023"
View the full rankings here.
Additionally, Harry Wang was named to the "Top 30 Angel Investors of 2023" by the Global Entrepreneurship Week organizing committee in partnership with ChinaVenture in November. View the full rankings here.
About Linear Capital
Linear Capital is an early-stage investment firm focused on "frontier technology + industry" — frontier technologies such as data intelligence, digital new infrastructure, next-generation robotics, and technological transformation in traditional sectors (biomedical, materials, energy, etc.), applied across vertical industries to dramatically improve efficiency, solve critical pain points, and enable industrial upgrading. Through substantial value creation at the industry level, we aim to generate outsized commercial returns. The firm currently manages ten funds with approximately $2 billion in total AUM.
We lead investments from angel through Series A, with typical check sizes of $3–8 million or RMB equivalent.
To date, we have made early-stage investments in over 120 teams, including Horizon Robotics, Kujiale, Sensors Data, Tezign, Rokid, Guandata, and Agile Robots. The combined valuation of Linear's portfolio companies is approximately $20 billion.
In the near term, Linear Capital is working to become the premier Data Intelligence Technology Fund, with a long-term vision of building the most influential Frontier Technology Application Fund.