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Wrapped up Linear Capital's April European tour with visits to "Europe's Silicon Valley" Grenoble and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)!
This week, Linear Capital's April European tour reached its final two stops: Grenoble, France and Genoa, Italy. Many people may not be very
Linear Capital AIGC Tech Salon Preview: May 20, Hangzhou — A Conversation on the Opportunities and Challenges Brought by AIGC
On May 20, Linear Capital will co-host a technical salon with portfolio company Manycore Tech titled **"Facing the Inflection Point: Opportunities and Challenges Brought by AIGC."** At the event, Linear Capital director Can Zheng, investment vice president Zeren Bai, and select portfolio companies will share their perspectives. Registration is now open — **spots are limited, so sign up soon!**
Linear Capital portfolio company Chaoduijie (超对称) partners with Fudan University to release and open-source the 12-billion-parameter language model BBT-2
**Supersymmetry Technology Releases and Open-Sources 12 Billion Parameter Language Model BBT-2**
Visited two federal institutes of technology in Switzerland and met with local Chinese organizations — next stop, France.
During our days in Switzerland, the Linear Capital investment team visited several top-tier labs at both ETH Zurich and EPFL, and held networking events with local Chinese organizations. After touring both federal institutes of technology, we came away with a strong impression: the research environment here is exceptional. What many people may already know is that ETH Zurich alone has produced more than 32 Nobel laureates and one Turing Award winner.
From Big Tech to VC: Nine Deals in Year One, with First Investment in Aikenong丨Core Investors
Self-taught calculus in middle school, holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Tongji University and a master's degree in science from Columbia University, champion of the IBM Intelligent Business Analytics Competition, and previously worked at Tencent Cloud and Smart Industries Group.
Five Years Later, Revisiting Agile Robots' Munich Headquarters: From a Handful of People to Systematic Product Development and Industrial Deployment
Five years ago, after learning about Agile Robots and conducting deep due diligence, the Linear Capital investment team immediately flew to Munich to meet the founding team, fresh from leaving the German Aerospace Center to start their venture. They talked technology, they talked future growth. Agile's products, technology, and founders left a deep impression on us. On the way back to Shanghai, the team held an investment committee meeting right there in the airport and decided to bet on Agile Robots as angel investors. In the years that followed,
Linear Capital wrapped up its UK leg of the April Europe tour, with Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy still to come.
Last week, colleagues from Linear Capital's investment team hosted and attended a series of events in London. Beyond sharing Linear's story and the purpose of our trip with the Zhejiang University UK Alumni Association, Oxford University Life Sciences Society, Oxford University Student Union, and Cambridge University Student Union, we also exchanged views on frontier technology and investment trends with local startups and institutions working on cutting-edge tech. At the same time, we shared Linear's lessons learned — our observations from watching founders who received higher education and professional training overseas return to China to start businesses.
Backed by HSG and Linear Capital, Former Tencent Executive Builds Virtual Concerts Drawing Nearly Ten Million Views
Steve Jobs once said: "The low-bandwidth era transmits information; the high-bandwidth era may transmit emotion."
Linear Capital and C&D Group co-hosted a digital transformation salon, exploring how innovative technology products can be deployed in real-world business scenarios.
At the end of March, Linear Capital brought several of its portfolio companies to meet with C&D Group, co-hosting a digitalization salon at the Shanghai C&D Tower alongside C&D Emerging Investment and C&D Group's informatization center. Over the course of an afternoon, Linear Capital and its portfolio companies engaged with C&D Group's headquarters and informatization teams across various industry groups to discuss current technology trends and explore how these cutting-edge products and solutions could be applied across Xiamen C&D's diverse business areas.
Tech Investor | Linear Capital's Harry Wang: Understanding Technology Matters More Than Technology Itself
Recently, Harry Wang, founding partner and CEO of Linear Capital, sat down with *Pengpai Tech* to share the fund's perspective on the hot topic of ChatGPT, lessons learned from investing in AI commercialization projects, and how his investment philosophy has evolved over Linear Capital's eight-year history. As the article notes, Linear Capital has always emphasized that "technology is the primary productive force." We pursue and believe in technological innovation, while also maintaining deep respect for the humanities, our customers, business fundamentals, and capital markets.