Linse Capital
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Linse Capital is a growth equity firm investing in technology companies in the transportation, energy, and logistics sector. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $700M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Linse Capital invests in
ManufacturingMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceEnergyRobotics
Stages Linse Capital invests in
Series BSeries DSeries CSeries ESeries A
Countries Linse Capital invests in
United StatesCanadaIsraelNorwayUnited Kingdom
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Bastiaan Janmaat
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Dario Constantine
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Robert Kaufman
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 3 (11%)
- Machine Learning 3 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (11%)
- Energy 2 (7%)
- Robotics 2 (7%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (15%)
- Series D 4 (15%)
- Series C 3 (11%)
- Series E 3 (11%)
- Series A 2 (7%)
Country
- United States 11 (41%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
- Norway 1 (4%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Bastiaan Janmaat
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
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Dario Constantine
Senior Associate
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Senior Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Michael Linse
Managing Director & Founder
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Managing Director & Founder | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
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Robert Kaufman
Principal, Head of Investor Relations
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Principal, Head of Investor Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Impulse Space
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Impulse Space develops spacecraft and propulsion systems that provide transportation and mobility services for payloads operating in space. The company focuses on moving, deploying, and hosting payloads across a range of orbital destinations, including low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and other deep-space trajectories. Its vehicle portfolioincludes Mira, a spacecraft designed for payload hosting, deployment, and orbital maneuvers, and Helios, a transfer vehicle intended to transport larger payloads between orbits. Impulse Space designs, manufactures, and tests much of its hardware in-house, covering spacecraft systems, propulsion components, and mission integration. The company supports commercial, civil, and government missions by providing in-space transportation and logistics capabilities after launch. | $500M / Series D / Jun 02, 2026 | |
Thea Energy
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Thea Energy is taking a faster approach to commercialize fusion energy. The company’s fusion systems will create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering developed at Princeton University and elsewhere. The company was founded in 2022with the objective of building modular, utility-scale fusion power. | $100M / Series B / May 27, 2026 | |
Waabi
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Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before. | $750M / Series C / Jan 28, 2026 | |
Freeform
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Freeform is a 3D printing company offering metal 3D printing solutions for manufacturing companies. Freeform deploys software-defined, self-sufficient metal 3D printing factories around the world, bringing software scalability to physical production. Freeform's technology stack combines advanced sensing, real-time controls, and data-drivenlearning to produce digitally-verified, flawless parts at previously unheard-of speeds and costs. | $67M / Series B / Jan 07, 2026 | |
Kargo
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Kargo's mission is to build a connective tissue between the physical world of freight and the digital ecosystem used to manage it. Kargo believes that advancements in smart infrastructure are critical to enabling a safer and more efficient future for logistics. Kargo's loading dock sensor platform verifies all incoming and outgoingfreight, aggregating data that enables shippers and carriers to efficiently manage dock operations, switch out suppliers and understand material flow in real time.Kargo was formerly known as Cognisense. It was founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California. | $42M / Series B / Dec 22, 2025 | |
Mythic
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Mythic is a diverse group of individuals focused on developing cutting-edge analog matrix processors based on our unique analog compute-in-memory. Their products are the M1076 Analog Matrix Processor, MP10304 Quad-AMP PCIe Card, and MM1076 M.2 M Key Card. They offer AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device. | $125M / Series D / Dec 17, 2025 | |
Lace Lithography
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Lace Lithography develops chip patterning technology, aiming to extend Moore's Law and enable future chip production. | $40M / Series A / Dec 04, 2025 | |
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Impulse Space
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Impulse Space develops spacecraft and propulsion systems that provide transportation and mobility services for payloads operating in space. The company focuses on moving, deploying, and hosting payloads across a range of orbital destinations, including low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and other deep-space trajectories. Its vehicle portfolioincludes Mira, a spacecraft designed for payload hosting, deployment, and orbital maneuvers, and Helios, a transfer vehicle intended to transport larger payloads between orbits. Impulse Space designs, manufactures, and tests much of its hardware in-house, covering spacecraft systems, propulsion components, and mission integration. The company supports commercial, civil, and government missions by providing in-space transportation and logistics capabilities after launch. | $300M / Series C / Jun 03, 2025 | |
Skydio
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Skydio is a drone manufacturer that uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumers, enterprises, and government customers.It develops AI-powered drones to deliver the power and flying cameras without the complexity. The company's drones use an array of cameras and proprietary computer vision technology torecognize, avoid objects in real-time, and predict into the future to make intelligent decisions, enabling users by flying themselves through the most demanding tasks or keeping them safe from obstacles when they want to take control. The company's debut drone, the R1, could track a target and film them while avoiding obstacles without any human intervention required. Then the company released the Skydio 2 in 2019, its second drone, cutting off more than half the price while improving it its autonomous tracking and video capabilities. Its flagship product, the X2, is equipped with seven cameras, 100x zoom, night vision, and promises to turn ordinary users into expert pilots thanks to its self-piloting abilities. It is backed by top investors and strategic partners including Andreessen Horowitz, Linse Capital, Next47, IVP, Playground, NVIDIA, and UP.Partners.Abraham Bachrach, Adam Bry, and Matt Donahoe founded Klarna in Redwood City, California in 2014. | $170M / Series E / Nov 15, 2024 | |
Redaptive
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Redaptive is an Energy-as-a-Service provider that funds and installs energy-saving and energy-generating equipment. Redaptive’s programs help many of the world’s most sophisticated organizations reduce energy waste, save money, lower their carbon emissions, and meet their sustainability goals across their entire real estate portfolios. WithRedaptive, customers can overcome capital and contractual barriers to achieve energy-saving benefits quickly, all with real-time data powered by Redaptive’s proprietary Data-as-a-Service metering platform. | $50M / Series E / May 03, 2023 | |
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FAQ
What does Linse Capital invest in?
Linse Capital invests primarily in Manufacturing, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Linse Capital?
The team at Linse Capital includes Bastiaan Janmaat (Managing Director), Dario Constantine (Senior Associate) and Michael Linse (Managing Director & Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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