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Linear Venture

VC
San Mateo, CAWebsite

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.

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$100K – $300K

AUM

$2.0B

Portfolio

10+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investor activity
Last known investment: 2025Investments in last 12 months: 1

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

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Harry Wang

General Partner

Frontier Technology Applications
AI software and applications
AI hardware & embodied intelligence
AI for science and manufacturing

Harry Wang is Facebook's first Chinese R&D manager and the founder of Linear Capital, a Frontier Tech Fund established in 2014.

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Oliver Martins

Founding Partner

B2B SaaS
Data Platforms

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Other

Portfolio Companies (10)

2025

TA

Tars

Trusted AI and robotics solutions provider.

2024

DE

Deep Principle

AI for Science (Chemistry/Materials) innovator.

2023

RI

RIVR

Embodied intelligent robotics developer.

2021

RI

Rino.ai

L4 autonomous driving technology company.

2018

AG

Agile Robots

Global leading player in intelligent robotics.

2015

TE

Tezign

Platform for technical marketing and creative design talent.

HO

Horizon Robotics

Market-leading supplier of ADAS and high-level autonomous driving solutions for passenger vehicles.

2011

MA

Manycore Tech

Spatial intelligence enterprise powered by GPU clusters and AI technology.

Other

IN

Insightly

CRM SaaS
DA

Dataworks

Data Integration SaaS
How to pitch Linear Venture
  • 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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