Frank Lin
Co-Founder and General Partner @ DCM Ventures
Frank Lin is a Series A investor at DCM Ventures focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. As a Co-Founder and General Partner of DCM China, Hurst Lin brings a wealth of business and cultural insight and co-leads the firm’s expansion of investment activities in Asia. A co-founder of China’s largest online portal, Hurst has a history of successfully acquiring Chinese IT start-ups, operating and taking a company public and then building itinto a billion-dollar business.Hurst was COO and Board Memeber of SINA Corporation (Nasdaq: SINA), the first Chinese Internet company to successfully list on the Nasdaq. He co-founded Sina.com’s precursor company, SinaNet, in 1995 and later guided the company through a $78-million IPO and the ensuing dot-com decline to eventually create a billion-dollar operation. Hurst oversaw SINA’s global business development and mergers and acquisitions and was heavily involved in the company’s day-to-day operations as well as major corporate transactions and pre-IPO funding.Previously, Hurst served as a consultant at Ernst & Young Management Consulting Group, where he focused on marketing and operations in telecommunications and technology companies. He also held marketing, engineering and management positions at Octel Communication Inc. and NYNEX.Hurst was born in Taiwan and raised in New York City.
- Total investments:
- 36
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Frank Lin invests in
Stages Frank Lin invests in
Countries Frank Lin invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (17%)
- Software 5 (14%)
- E-Commerce 4 (11%)
- SaaS 3 (8%)
- Fashion 3 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (22%)
- Series B 7 (19%)
- Seed 6 (17%)
- Series C 6 (17%)
- Series D 3 (8%)
Country
- China 14 (39%)
- United States 7 (19%)
- Hong Kong 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Kaon
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FlowGPT is a LLM prompt platform that allows anyone to explore, use, and share prompts across different LLMs. On FlowGPT, users can find high-quality prompts and their potential use cases. It is also an open-source community, a "Github" for prompt creators to collaborate, iterate, and manage their prompts. | $60M / Series B / Jul 08, 2026 | |
Lingopal
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SaaS API Layer for translation | $14M / Series A / Feb 10, 2025 | |
Reforged Labs
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Reforged Labs’ SDK makes it possible to generate endless, live gaming content. With a combination of generative AI and recommender systems, game studios can use our SDK to produce intelligent characters with dynamic behavior and truly divergent, branching narratives. As lifelong gamers, Robert & Oscar are on a mission to make games more fun,immersive, and personalized. | $3.9M / Seed / Aug 08, 2024 | |
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Kaon
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FlowGPT is a LLM prompt platform that allows anyone to explore, use, and share prompts across different LLMs. On FlowGPT, users can find high-quality prompts and their potential use cases. It is also an open-source community, a "Github" for prompt creators to collaborate, iterate, and manage their prompts. | $10M / Series A / Feb 26, 2024 | |
TextQL
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TextQL is a platform that simplifies the data-to-insight process for organizations. The platform indexes BI tools and semantic layers, documents data in dbt, and uses OpenAI and language models to provide self-serve power analytics. With TextQL, non-technical users can easily and quickly work with data by asking questions in their work context(Slack/Teams/email) and getting automated answers quickly and safely. The platform also leverages NLP and semantic layers, including the dbt Labs semantic layer, to ensure reasonable solutions. TextQL's elegant handoffs to human analysts, when required, dramatically simplify the whole question-to-answer process with AI. | $4.1M / Seed / Dec 12, 2023 | |
BentoML
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BentoML is the platform for AI developers to build, ship, and scale AI applications. Headquartered in San Francisco, BentoML’s open-source products are enabling thousands of organizations’ mission-critical AI applications around the globe. Our serverless cloud platform brings developer velocity and cost-efficiency to enterprise AI use cases.BentoML is on a mission to empower every organization to compete and succeed with AI | $6M / Seed / Jun 26, 2023 | |
Tiamat
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Tiamat is a platform for generative artificial intelligence development and operators. | Series A / May 08, 2023 | |
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Tiamat
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Tiamat is a platform for generative artificial intelligence development and operators. | $9M / Series A / Feb 28, 2023 | |
imBee
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imBee is a collaborative One Team Inbox that consolidates a vast majority of your Instant Messaging channels including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram Direct, WeChat, LINE etc., with over 300+ tools to optimize communication efficiency and improve customer relationships through effective conversational engagement. By providing best-in-classbusiness tools and workflow automation, imBee ensures brands scale their businesses and improve internal and external communication. With imBee, enterprises can manage customer communication, sales, and support in one place, streamlining team efforts and helping to recover lost sales.imBee launched AiskBee in 2023, Hong Kong's First ChatGPT-Powered Enterprise Knowledge Base Solution. AiskBee leverages the power of AI to offer businesses an innovative way to manage their knowledge base while allowing them to customise dynamic engagements catered to customer preferences. With ChatGPT’s context and intent understanding capabilities, AiskBee surpasses conventional chatbots, offering diverse ways to enhance customer engagement across various industries. In line with international data security standards, ISO27001 certification and private cloud data security, imBee’s commitment to data security ensures the protection of users’ sensitive information.In 2022, imBee raised US$5 million in Series A funding led by DCM, a global venture capital firm. | $5M / Series A / Oct 17, 2022 | |
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Tiamat
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Tiamat is a platform for generative artificial intelligence development and operators. | Angel / Oct 12, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About DCM Ventures
DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.
DCM Ventures Contacts
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Weijin Huang
Principal
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David K. Chao
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Dixon Doll
Co-Founder & Partner Emeritus
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Frank Lin
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Ibrahim AlSuwaidi
Principal & Investor
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What does Frank Lin invest in?
Frank Lin invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 36 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Frank Lin last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Frank Lin closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 36 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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