Linear Capital's Eindhoven offline networking event — sign up now!

In late April, Linear Capital's investment team will host an offline startup mixer in Eindhoven, sharing the latest updates and insights from China's hard tech investing scene. Linear Capital founder and CEO Harry Wang, partner Songyan Huang, and senior principal Wei Xin will attend the event. Entrepreneurs, PhDs, and postdoctoral researchers are welcome to sign up — whether you're looking to commercialize a research project, exploring a startup idea, or simply curious about China's venture capital landscape, we'd love to meet and exchange ideas with you!

Founded in 2014, Linear Capital focuses on "frontier technology + industry" investments: frontier technologies such as data intelligence, digital new infrastructure, next-generation robotics, and new technological transformations in traditional sectors (biotech, materials, energy, etc.), applied across vertical industries to dramatically improve efficiency, solve pain points, and enable industrial upgrading — generating outsized commercial returns through massive industrial value creation.

Linear Capital insists on entering at the early stage and providing continuous support throughout a project's full lifecycle. Over the years, several technical founders from renowned European universities and research institutes that we've backed have grown into star projects, including Agile Robots, Reviwos, AIGOONA, Dishi Medical, Ruhr New Materials, Axbio, Ruixin Manufacturing, and SwissMile, with founding teams hailing from institutions such as the German Aerospace Center, University of Cambridge, and Max Planck Institute. These experiences have strengthened our conviction that Europe's frontier technology research and applications deserve deep capital attention and exploration. We look forward to connecting with many of you!

Agenda:

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

Date & Time: 2:00 PM local time, April 24

Location: On campus at TUE; exact venue to be shared upon registration

Speaker Bios:

Harry Wang

Founder and CEO of Linear Capital, focused on frontier technology projects that solve industrial upgrading challenges. He was the angel investor in Horizon Robotics, Sensors Data, Tezign, Kujiale, and others. Before founding Linear Capital, Harry was the second Chinese engineer and first Chinese engineering manager at Facebook headquarters, an experience he chronicled in the bestseller The Facebook Way. 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 named "Best Early-Stage Investor" and "Most Founder-Friendly Early-Stage Investor" by media outlets. He is an Aspen Fellow, the inaugural 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 technology investing. He has led investments in Agile Robots, Quanying Technology, HyperAccel, Weijian, and Akenong, among 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 & Electronic Engineering. He has been named to 36Kr's "36 Investors Under 36," VentureStar's "40 Investors Under 40," and Jazzyear's "20 Most Insightful Tech Investors of 2021."

Wei Xin

Senior Principal at Linear Capital. He focuses on industry analysis at the intersection of software and hardware, and data-enabled industrial applications. Before joining Linear Capital, Wei worked as a systems 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 its 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 on our European investment team:

Positions: 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 investing
• Strong curiosity and logical thinking; willing to ask questions, and ask again if still unclear; capable of rapid learning and self-motivation
• Keen observational skills and quick reflexes; excellent research and data analysis capabilities
• Immense curiosity about frontier technology and ability to dig deep
• Hardworking, values long-term interests and understands delayed gratification
• Punctual
• Strong communicator
• Speaks up, follows through on commitments, delivers results
• Willing to make mistakes, brave enough to admit them, learns from them, and grows through correction

Nice to have:

• Investment experience not required, but prior 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 broad hard tech fields is an additional plus; candidates with study experience in the base location preferred

Locations: 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 new technological transformations in traditional sectors (biotech, materials, energy, etc.), applied across vertical industries to dramatically improve efficiency, solve pain points, and enable industrial upgrading — generating outsized commercial returns through massive industrial value creation. The firm currently manages ten funds with approximately $2 billion in total AUM.

We invest primarily from angel through Series A lead, with typical check sizes of $3–8 million or RMB equivalent.

To date, we have made early-stage investments in over 120 founding 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 best "Data Intelligence Technology Fund"; in the long term, it aims to build itself into the most influential "Frontier Technology Application Fund."