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Today marks a significant milestone for both Linear Capital and Harry Wang. Harry's journey with Manycore began in 2013 as an angel investor. After founding Linear in 2014, Linear continued to participate in Manycore's multiple subsequent funding rounds. Today, we are proud to celebrate Manycore's HK IPO - the first among "Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou" to go public. This achievement is the culmination of 13 years of crossing the technology desert together, made possible through dedicated companionship and a shared belief in technology. More details can be found in my podcast with Xiaohuang, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Manycore (youtu.be/Z_WQWramlFY). We are extremely proud of the Manycore team and wish them continued success as a public company. 😇 🥳 #LinearCapital #Manycore #Investor #IPO

Happy to announce a new investment – we've co-led a hundreds-of-millions RMB round in Simple AI, the company's third round in just six months. Simple AI is building general-purpose embodied robots starting with home-like commercial scenes like hotels, using real-world data to drive a flywheel that will eventually bring robots into every household. Led by Tsinghua Ph.D. Dr. Li Xiaofei and Chief Scientist Dr. Wang Jiawei (ex-DeepSeek, ByteDance Seed), this is a team with world-class talent. #EmbodiedAI #Robotics #VentureCapital #SimpleAI #LinearCapital

Our portfolio company SynapX has received a strategic investment led by K3 Venture, with existing shareholders Shunwei, Xiaomi, Hillhouse, and Linear Capital all following on. K3, founded by Kuok Meng Xiong (third generation of the Kuok family), brings not only capital but also vast global industrial resources across hospitality, logistics, and beyond. SynapX is committed to Physical AGI with a focus on home scenarios as the ultimate "Turing Test" for physical world intelligence. Congrats to the team on this global strategic milestone! #PhysicalAGI #Robotics #VentureCapital #SynapX #K3 #LinearCapital

Excited to share that portfolio company D-Robotics has closed $150M in Series B2 funding, bringing total Series B to $270M. With 180% YoY shipment growth and over 100,000 global developers, the company is building an embodied AI-native computing base alongside Horizon Robotics. Linear Capital has backed D-Robotics since its first round and followed on every round since. Congrats to the team! #Robotics #EmbodiedAI #VentureCapital #DRobotics #LinearCapital

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Three years ago, we went to Zurich to explore top innovations at ETH and met Marko and his team. They redefined wheeled robotics with real-to-sim-to-real technology and pulled off a brilliant Global Arbitrage through their global vision and ability to integrate resources. Marko is a founder with true passion, strong conviction, and great resilience. We built a relationship of mutual trust and camaraderie—sharing drinks and poetry along the way. This journey together has meant a lot. Congratulations to the team on the acquisition by Amazon! With Amazon's support, we believe Marko and his team will continue to drive Physical AI to real-world impact and create meaningful value for our shared future. 👏

Physical AI company SynapX has raised nearly $50 million in its first funding round, backed by Horizon Robotics, Hillhouse Ventures, Xiaomi Strategic Investment, Shunwei Capital, and Linear Capital. Founded in January 2026 by Dalong Du—former core member of Horizon Robotics. Du previously co-founded Jianzhi Robotics, which was acquired in the largest M&A deal in A-shares autonomous driving history. The funding will go toward core technology and product development, data systems, and talent acquisition. The round closed in under two months, with the next round already underway. #PhysicalAI #EmbodiedIntelligence #AGI #StartupFunding #SynapX #Robotics #AI

Agile Robots showcased its achievements at NVIDIA GTC 2026, unveiling two flagship products—Agile ONE and FR3 Duo. The former is designed for complex production environments, while the latter focuses on high-precision manipulation and real-time intelligent execution. During the event, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang stopped by the Agile Robots booth and left his signature on Agile ONE 😇 #Robotics #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #NVIDIA #GTC2026 #AgileRobots #FrankaRobotics #LinearCapital

D-Robotics has secured a $120 million Series B1 funding round. Following its $100 million Series A round in 2025, the company's total funding across Series A and B now reaches $220 million. Joining the round are major industrial players, strategic investors, and top-tier funds, fully supporting Roborana's full-stack software and hardware technology development and product iteration. Proud to have supported D-Robotics since their first round and to continue backing them through subsequent rounds. #Robotics #IntelligentManufacturing #EmbodiedAI #LinearCapital #VC

Our portfolio Mindverse is making significant strides in the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) space with its "Second Me" platform, aiming to make personal AI agents accessible to everyday users. Recently featured by The Information, Mindverse hosted the first global A2A hackathon on February 7, 2026, attracting over 300 builder teams. The company plans to make these hackathons a monthly event and has added agent-publishing features to Second Me, demonstrating its commitment to shaping how ordinary people interact with AI agents in the emerging A2A internet. #LinearCapital #Mindverse #SecondMe #A2A #AIAgents #TechNews

Today, Linear Capital's seed-stage leading investment portfolio company, Deep Principle, announced the completion of its Series A2 funding round. This round was led by GoldAnt Investment, with strong follow-on investments from existing shareholders including XtalPi, Inspiration Capital, and Baidu Ventures. The new funds will be used to iteratively upgrade the company's "LLM + Diffusion"-driven algorithmic model system, refine its full-stack product suite—including Agent Mira—and advance the strategic implementation of the AI Materials Factory and its proprietary R&D pipeline. #AI4S #MaterialsScience #DeepTech #LinearCapital #GenerativeAI #Innovation #Startup

We're happy to share that RoboticPlus has secured a hundreds of millions CNY Series D funding round, co-led by Broad Vision Funds and CICC Capital. Through its self-developed industrial software platform RoBIM, they have delivered trusted hand-eye-brain coordinated robotic flexible manufacturing solutions to hundreds of global industry leaders. Proud to have supported RoboticPlus since their Series A round and to continue backing them through subsequent rounds. #Robotics #IntelligentManufacturing #RoboticPlus #LinearCapital

A feature article titled "How will we know if AI is smart enough to do science?" has just been published in the world's top academic journal Science, focusing on the latest breakthroughs in AI scientific capability assessment systems. It provides in-depth analysis of cutting-edge explorations by Deep Principle, OpenAI, FutureHouse, and others in building evaluation benchmarks for AI-driven scientific discovery. The feature highlights the "Scientific Discovery Evaluation" (SDE) benchmark, led by Deep Principle, which is Linear's portfolio. Unlike traditional evaluations, AI is no longer faced with simple Q&A tasks—instead, it must demonstrate integration capabilities across the complete research workflow, just like real scientists. SDE results reveal a critical insight: High accuracy on single-question tasks does not directly translate to strong performance on end-to-end research projects—and vice versa. #AI #AI4Science #DeepPrinciple #OpenAI #Science #LinearCapital

Exciting news from our portfolio company ROKID! 🇯🇵 Their AI glasses just launched in Japan and raised over ¥100M JPY in 12 hours on MAKUAKE—setting a new record for the fastest AI glasses project to hit that milestone on the platform. Congrats to the ROKID team! 🚀 #ROKID #AIGlasses #MAKUAKE #Innovation #LinearCapital

Excited to announce that Anyverse, a universal embodied AI robotics company, has raised over $20M in its Angel+ round. Existing backers Hongshan, Linear Capital, and Hillhouse doubled down, joined by other new investors. Humbled to support this world-class team as they scale from R&D to real-world impact. The future of robotics is here. #Anyverse #EmbodiedAI #Robotics #VC #TechInvestment #AI

Our angel-round portfolio company Rokid supports the athletes in the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics by fancy products! Technology meets sports — empowering athletes and enhancing the Olympic experience. Let’s cheer for all the incredible Winter Olympians together! 🏅💪 #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina2026 #SportsTech #Innovation #Rokid #VentureCapital #TechForGood

This week, Linear Capital, together with our portfolio company D-Robotics, JD.com, and X-Man Accelerator, held a robotics maker event in Suzhou. A half-hour roundtable discussion brought together players from across the chip, channel, brand, capital, and maker communities into one room to explore the future of the industry. #LinaerCapital #VC #startups #Events #AI #Robotics

We’re excited to announce that our portfolio company Macaron AI has secured over $20 million in Series Pre-A funding, co-led by Ant Group and Hongshan. Linear Capital is proud to have been Macaron AI’s early angel investor, supporting their journey from an early-stage project to a team delivering exceptional execution. At the core is their work with LoRA technology, creating a continuously trainable layer that allows a base model to develop unique, long-term memory for each user. They are among the few teams globally implementing this at a trillion-parameter scale. #AI #PersonalAI #VC #Funding #Innovation #Macaron #MindLab

ANTA made a global debut of the ANTAZERO × KRIS VAN ASSHCHE collection at the iconic Dover Street Market Paris. The collection extensively features Mulkol®—a mycelium mushroom leather developed by SynMetabio. This innovative material is produced through the fermentation of selected strains using non-edible biological resources, resulting in a bio-based fiber with a carbon-negative footprint. It represents a truly eco-friendly and animal-free alternative to traditional leather. Linear Capital is the lead investor in SynMetabio’s angel round. #SustainableFashion #MaterialInnovation #CarbonNegative #FashionTech #Innovation #VentureCapital #ANTA #SynMetabio #LinearCapital #ESG