Event Registration | Linear Capital's April Munich Offline Meetup — You're Invited!

In mid-April, Linear Capital's investment team will join hands with the Munich Chinese Students and Scholars Association to host an offline meetup in Munich, sharing the latest updates and insights on hard tech investing in China. Harry Wang, Founder and CEO of Linear Capital, along with Partner Songyan Huang and Senior Principal Wei Xin, will attend the event.

We welcome PhDs, postdocs, and technical entrepreneurs to register — whether you're looking to commercialize a research project or have a startup idea, we encourage you to sign up and join the conversation!

Founded in 2014, Linear Capital focuses on "frontier technology + industry" investments — frontier technologies such as data intelligence, digital new infrastructure, next-generation robotics, and technological transformation in traditional sectors (biotech, materials, energy, etc.), applied across vertical industries to dramatically improve efficiency, solve pain points, and enable industrial upgrading. We capture outsized commercial returns through substantial industrial value creation. Over the past few years, many technical founders from renowned European universities and research institutes whom we backed at the early stage have grown into star projects, including: Agile Robots, Reviiv, Auxergo, Dishi Medical, Ruhr New Materials, Axbio, Ruixin Manufacturing, SwissMile, and others — with founding teams hailing from the German Aerospace Center, Cambridge University, the Max Planck Institute, and more.

Notably, among these European countries and regions, we share a particularly deep connection with Munich. Our portfolio companies — represented by Agile Robots, Auxergo, and Dishi Medical — all have founding teams from Munich universities. For us, from visiting Agile Robots' Munich headquarters six years ago and deciding to invest, to our 2023 Europe trip revisiting local tech companies and Chinese organizations in Munich, to co-hosting a closed-door entrepreneurship session with the Munich Chinese Students and Scholars Association this past January, and now making Munich the first stop on this year's Europe trip — we deeply value and look forward to continuing our exchanges with local entrepreneurial teams and scholars in Munich!

Whether you're from a Munich university, research institute, or industry, you'll have the opportunity to connect with fellow entrepreneurs and investors who share your passion for frontier technology.

Event Agenda:

• Linear Capital presentation — Linear Capital Partner
• Portfolio company case studies
• Research project / startup idea Demo Show
• Q&A

Venue and exact time: To be notified via confirmation email upon successful registration.

Speaker Bios:

Harry Wang

Founder and CEO of Linear Capital. He focuses on frontier technology projects that address industrial upgrading challenges. He was an angel investor in Horizon Robotics, Sensors Data, Tezign, Kujiale, and other companies. Before founding Linear Capital, Harry was the second Chinese engineer and first Chinese engineering manager at Facebook headquarters — experiences he chronicled in his bestseller The Facebook Effect. After leaving Facebook, he served as CEO advisor to Dianping, Baixing, and CSDN, and has spoken and shared at numerous Chinese tech companies and technical communities. Harry has been repeatedly recognized by media as "Best Early-Stage Investor" and "Most Founder-Friendly Early-Stage Investor." He is an Aspen Fellow, the first chair of the Future Forum Youth Council, and a 2018 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Harry graduated from Zhejiang University's Computer Science department and earned his master's in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Songyan Huang

Partner at Linear Capital, head of deep tech investing. He has led investments in Agile Robots, Quanying Technology, HyperAccel, Weijian, Aikennong, and others. He also serves as a reviewer for multiple top-tier IEEE journals. Before joining Linear Capital, Songyan worked as a data scientist at Huawei, leading several frontier AI research and application projects. He earned his PhD in machine learning from Zhejiang University's College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering. Dr. Huang has been recognized on 36Kr's "36 Under 36 Outstanding Investors," Venture50's "40 Under 40 Investors," and Jazzyear's "20 Most Visionary Tech Investors of 2021."

Wei Xin

Senior Principal at Linear Capital. He focuses on industry analysis at the intersection of hardware and software, and data-enabled industrial applications. Before joining Linear Capital, Wei worked as a system lead designer at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Innovation Academy for Microsatellites, and did hard tech investing at a venture capital firm. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology's School of Mechatronics Engineering and the HIT Robotics Institute respectively, and his MBA from Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance.

To register for the event, please scan the QR code below:

Additionally, we have open headcount for our European investment team:

Position: Principal, Senior Principal

Requirements:

• STEM background from a top overseas university. Interest in early-stage investing and desire to work on European deal sourcing and investment execution: strong curiosity and logical thinking skills; willingness to ask questions, and ask again if still unclear; ability to learn quickly and self-motivate. Strong observational skills and sensitivity; excellent research and data analysis capabilities.
• Great curiosity and deep-dive ability in frontier technology.
• Hardworking, values long-term interests and understands delayed gratification.
• Strong sense of time.
• Good communication skills.
• Speaks up, follows through on commitments, delivers results.
• Willing to make mistakes, brave enough to admit them, corrects them, and learns from them.

Nice to have:

• Investment experience not required, but experience investing in tech startups is a plus
• R&D or PM background at a top-tier tech company, or having invested in well-known projects in relevant fields, is a plus
• PhD in hard tech fields is an additional plus; candidates with study experience in the base location preferred

Location: Anywhere in Europe; Germany, Switzerland, and UK preferred

Please send your resume to: talent@linear.vc

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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 (biotech, materials, energy, etc.), applied across vertical industries to dramatically improve efficiency, solve pain points, and enable industrial upgrading. We capture outsized commercial returns through substantial industrial value creation. The firm currently manages ten funds with total AUM of approximately $2 billion.

We invest primarily from angel to Series A, typically leading rounds of $3-8 million USD or RMB equivalent.

Our early-stage investments include Horizon Robotics, Kujiale, Sensors Data, Tezign, Rokid, Guandata, Agile Robots, and over 120 other entrepreneurial teams. 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." Over the long term, we aim to build the most influential "Frontier Technology Application Fund."