Linear Venture
Linear Venture is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in San Mateo, CA investing in SaaS, Other. The firm typically writes $100K–$300K checks and has 10 portfolio companies in our records.
Pre-Seed
$100K – $300K
$2.0B
10+ companies
2 partners
Investment Thesis
Linear Venture prioritizes investments in early-stage B2B SaaS founders innovating with data-centric applications.
How Linear Venture invests
Linear Venture is a vc firm based in San Mateo, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on SaaS, Other.
Linear Venture typically writes checks of $100K–$300K per investment, backed by approximately $2B in assets under management.
Investing since at least 2011, Linear Venture has backed 10 companies in our records, including Tars, Deep Principle, RIVR. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2025, with 1 investment logged over the last 12 months.
Meet the Team
Harry Wang
General Partner
Harry Wang is Facebook's first Chinese R&D manager and the founder of Linear Capital, a Frontier Tech Fund established in 2014.
Oliver Martins
Founding Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (10)
2025
Tars
Trusted AI and robotics solutions provider.
2024
Deep Principle
AI for Science (Chemistry/Materials) innovator.
2023
RIVR
Embodied intelligent robotics developer.
2021
Rino.ai
L4 autonomous driving technology company.
2018
Agile Robots
Global leading player in intelligent robotics.
2015
Tezign
Platform for technical marketing and creative design talent.
Horizon Robotics
Market-leading supplier of ADAS and high-level autonomous driving solutions for passenger vehicles.
2011
Manycore Tech
Spatial intelligence enterprise powered by GPU clusters and AI technology.
Other
Insightly
Dataworks
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $300K check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Harry Wang, General Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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