# Linear Venture

> Linear Venture is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 102 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, China
- Total investments: 102
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 22%
- Fund size: $200M
- Last fund: Oct 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/linear-venture
- Website: http://www.linear.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Linear-Venture/911058628953821

Linear Venture is a VC fund in Beijing focused on Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology. Linear Capital (Linear Venture) was founded by Jingdong, Lynx former executives and early Facebook employees Chuan Wang Huai, attention Pan smart, technology-driven big data early in the project area. Has invested horizon robot, Rokid, with shield, melting point, etc. more than 30 start-up team, and is trying to become China's best intelligentapplication data Fund (Applied-Data-Intelligence). Our existing limited partners from Asia's top hedge funds, but also from Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, the public comment, go, people network, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other well-known Internet company founders or executives and Xue Manzi, Mr Leung and other aspect of capital investment sector for decades veterans. We strive to use industry expertise and resources to help the investment company move fast and break fewer things, and ultimately the linear path and nonlinear growth.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$8.5M |
| Angel | $425k–$8.3M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 20 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 13% |
| Robotics | 9 | 9% |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 9% |
| Internet | 8 | 8% |

93 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 34 | 33% |
| Seed | 19 | 19% |
| Angel | 17 | 17% |
| Series B | 14 | 14% |
| Series C | 7 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 51 | 50% |
| Singapore | 4 | 4% |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 3% |
| United States | 3 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bin Ben | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bin-ben |
| Huai Wang | Founding Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wang-huai |
| Jin Yi open | Investment Manager / PR Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jin-yi-open |
| Li Yuechen Rachelle | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/li-yuechen-rachelle |
| Mao Jiaxuan Mary | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mao-jiaxuan-mary |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aivela | Aivela offers hardware and software for capturing, analyzing, and managing visual and sensor data. The portfolio includes cameras, optics, lighting, and workflow software used for motion analysis, inspection, and experimental testing. Services cover solution design, system integration, calibration, and training to support deployment in laboratoryand production settings. Products integrate with common data acquisition and analytics tools and support synchronized triggering, high frame rates, and structured data management. Aivela serves engineering and research teams that need to document fast processes, quantify behavior, and produce repeatable measurements. | $3M | Angel | Jun 28, 2026 |  |
| Automata | Automata creates AI-powered tools like AI agents and smart integrations that simplify how teams plan, communicate, and work. The company solves business problems by enabling AI to build, manage, and evolve software workflows while humans guide the AI to deliver real value.Automata provides industry-tailored AI solutions | $7.1M | Series A | Apr 24, 2026 |  |
| D-Robotics | D-Robotics is a provider of robotic computing solutions. We're committed to delivering paradigm-shifting products that drive efficiency, simplify development and accelerate innovation. | $150M | Series B | Mar 16, 2026 |  |
| D-Robotics | D-Robotics is a provider of robotic computing solutions. We're committed to delivering paradigm-shifting products that drive efficiency, simplify development and accelerate innovation. | $100M | Series A | May 28, 2025 |  |
| Weijian Technology | Weijian Technology is a building intelligent robotics product company for the construction industry through robots, IoT, and AI algorithms. | $16.8M | Series A | Aug 23, 2024 |  |
| Cathoven | Cathoven is an AI-powered tutor focused on speaking and writing that helps learners prepare for high-stakes exams like IELTS. With its high-accuracy AI feedback system, Cathoven scores language ability, identifies weaknesses, and delivers personalized reports. Boosting exam performance by over 10% in less than four weeks. Recognized by QS as thesecond-best AI in Education project globally (after Duolingo), Cathoven has been cited in 40+ academic publications and is already used by educators at leading universities such as Columbia and Berkeley.In addition to exam preparation, Cathoven offers a smart helper for teachers—an AI assistant that evaluates student proficiency, adapts content to the right level, analyzes text difficulty, creates exercises and comprehension questions, and even provides essay and video feedback. This enables educators to save time on routine tasks while giving students personalized, faster learning experiences. | $720K | Seed | Apr 03, 2023 |  |
| Bizhen Technology | Bizhen Technology provides the creation, publishing and trading of 3D real-time interactive virtual spaces. |  | Angel | Mar 13, 2023 |  |
| JINGdigital | JINGdigital is China's Leading Marketing Automation Platform. Since our founding in 2014, JINGdigital has been providing brands with digital marketing optimization solutions through our JINGsocial platform. The platform enables brands to better understand customers and empowers brands to create valuable personal connections at scale. | $7.5M | Series A | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Mindverse | Mindverse is a cutting-edge AI technology company. Starting from the fusion technology of brain science and artificial intelligence, it creatively builds digital consciousness with autonomous consciousness and thinking ability, and integrates multi-disciplinary cutting-edge technologies to break through the current AI black box dilemma.Next-generation AI paradigm. While solving artificial general intelligence (AGI), build a new AI industry. | $7M | Angel | Jun 08, 2022 |  |
| Guandata | Guandata is committed to the philosophy of “AI+BI makes decisions more intelligent” and is committed to providing next-generation data analytics and business intelligence (BI) solutions to new retail, new finance, pan-Internet and integrated group customers. | $44.2M | Series C | Feb 21, 2022 |  |

10 of 102 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Hillhouse Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hillhouse-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [China Growth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Linear Venture invest in?

Linear Venture invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Robotics startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 102 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Linear Venture's check size?

Linear Venture typically joins rounds of $300k–$8.5M at Seed, $425k–$8.3M at Angel and $2.2M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Linear Venture participates in.

### How do I contact Linear Venture?

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### Who are the partners at Linear Venture?

The team at Linear Venture includes Bin Ben (CFO), Huai Wang (Founding Partner) and Jin Yi open (Investment Manager / PR Manager), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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