Gary Lin
Founder & Managing Director @ Purple Orange Ventures
Berlin, Germany
Gary Lin is a seed investor at Purple Orange Ventures in Berlin focused on Food and Beverage and iOS. Gary Lin is the Founder and Managing Director of Purple Orange Ventures and EVIG Group. He was the founder and CEO of mobile ad tech company Glispa Global Group before that.He is a recipient of the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award which recognizes Glispa as one of the ‘Fastest Growing, Technically Innovative and EntrepreneurialCompanies’ in the world. Selected as one of Europe’s hottest startups by Wired Magazine (UK), Glispa now has over 250 employees from 45 nationalities and maintains its headquarters in Berlin with offices in San Francisco, Beijing, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Athens, and São Paolo.Gary has more than 20 years of experience leading high-performance digital and mobile marketing companies internationally representing some of the globe’s most innovative brands. Previously, Lin founded Glispa, LLC (in New York) and achieved an 800% three-year growth rate, placing the company in the Inc. 500 as the #1 fastest growing Advertising and Marketing company in the US in 2008. Additionally, Gary served as the General Manager in Brazil and set up teams in Hong Kong for Beyond Interactive, one of the first global digital agencies, now part of MediaCom (WPP).Gary graduated from the University of Michigan Business School with an emphasis in Marketing and International Business.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Gary Lin invests in
Stages Gary Lin invests in
Countries Gary Lin invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $135k–$1.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $531k–$2.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 2 (29%)
- iOS 1 (14%)
- Mobile 1 (14%)
- Travel 1 (14%)
- Fashion 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (43%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (29%)
- Angel 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
Country
- Germany 4 (57%)
- Sweden 1 (14%)
- Finland 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Lovely Day Foods
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Lovely Day Foods is a European food biotech company creating the next generation of foods for a kinder future of our planet. Perfeggt, the company's product brand, launched its first generation of egg replacers based on pea protein for food service. Together with more than 50 partners, the company replaced over one million chicken eggs withdishes such as Perfeggt scrambled, omelets, quiches, pancakes and waffles that were served in hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, canteens and events across Germany and Austria. In 2023, Perfeggt was named #20 out of 50 most popular startup brands in Germany based on a survey by Jung von Matt with 48.000 participants. | $2.8M / Pre-Seed / Nov 25, 2021 | |
VEAT
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VEAT is on a mission to make healthy, plant-based foods more accessible. We cook and prepare our fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and deliver them daily to our vending machines throughout the city. | $531K / Pre-Seed / Nov 05, 2020 | |
Cooler Future
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Cooler Future's mission is to create positive climate impact by investing in assets from companies that are actively reducing their carbon footprint. With Cooler Future’s intuitive, easy-to-use mobile app, anyone can track the CO2e impact of each euro invested, while generating financial returns at the same time. | $1.5M / Oct 30, 2020 | |
Wellnow
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Wellnow is a Health-as-a-Service platform which provides on-site health & wellbeing services to companies.Their goal is to sustainably improve the health and thereby the productivity and motivation of employees by giving them access right at their workplace to their curated network of health professionals (massage therapists, fitness trainers,yoga coaches, etc.). Companies use their digital platform to easily book and manage their on-site wellbeing offers, which are a vital part of most company's health & benefit programs. Their mobile app enables freelance professionals to get access to attractive and flexible jobs as well as manage their daily bookings and calendars to stay ahead of their busy lives while they are on the go.Mega trends, like increasing health awareness, an aging workforce, stress and burnout as well as the need for corporate health management and employee motivation, will boost the already €15 billion European market further in the coming years. Wellnow will be the #1 platform in Europe that seizes this opportunity and helps companies, their employees as well as health professionals to reach their goals and live a healthier life.They are currently a team of 25 motivated and talented people working right in the heart of Berlin, backed by top tier VC`s. Revenues grow fast and Wellnow is the category leader in the German market. | $1.1M / Seed / Sep 21, 2016 | |
Epiclist
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Epiclist is a visual discovery app, helping people to explore, plan and share curated activities and travel experiences around the world or just around the corner. Follow adventure heroes, get inspired from lifestyle and travel brands, and book curated activities right from the palm of your hand.- Massive demand: 50 Million people plan theirtravel on their phone in 2013- Huge market = $100 Billion: Global Tours and Activities market in 2013- Fragmented supply: 250.000 SMEs in Travel Business, 95% without any mobile presence- Lots of money: Average spending per adventure trip in 2013, from $593 in 2009. | $135K / Seed / Aug 01, 2013 | |
Kisura
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KISURA is Europe's first personal online shopping platform for women, based in Berlin. Its name comes from the Swahili and means "gorgeously beautiful woman" | Angel / Apr 29, 2013 | |
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Cooler Future
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Cooler Future's mission is to create positive climate impact by investing in assets from companies that are actively reducing their carbon footprint. With Cooler Future’s intuitive, easy-to-use mobile app, anyone can track the CO2e impact of each euro invested, while generating financial returns at the same time. | Seed |
Co-Investors
About Purple Orange Ventures
Purple Orange Ventures is an entrepreneur-led impact seed fund based in Berlin. They seek early-stage teams leveraging technology to remove animals from the global food system.
Purple Orange Ventures Contacts
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Gary Lin
Founder & Managing Director
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FAQ
What does Gary Lin invest in?
Gary Lin invests primarily in Food and Beverage, iOS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Gary Lin's check size?
Gary Lin typically joins rounds of $135k–$1.1M at Seed and $531k–$2.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gary Lin participates in.
When did Gary Lin last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Gary Lin closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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