John Lin

John Lin

Early-Stage Investor @ Linea Ventures & Lin Capital | Angel Investor | LP

I specialize in

Fundraising 101
VC & Angel Advice
Marketing & GTM
Close my round
Fundraising strategy
Go-to-market
Growth
Seed round

I partner with founders building the next generation of companies

Background & Highlights

Investing in early stage startups

Linea Ventures

2026 – Present

Family office. Funds - Swift Ventures, Fprime Capital, Sunshine Lake, Linea Ventures.

Fprime Capital + Trinity Ventures + Angel Investor

2015 – Present

About me

Seed to Series A founders building AI agents and AI infrastructure. John founded Linea Ventures, a firm custom built for writing Seed-Series A co-investment checks in scaling companies in AI agents and infrastructure as they break out - typically growing from 4x to 10x with $500K to $5M in revenue. He spent the last 10 years primarily at Trinity Ventures, F-Prime, and angel investing, where he returned 4.8x (8x in angels) and backed companies like: • Weights and Biases ($1.8B exit, Series Seed/A) • Applied Intuition ($15B valuation, late) • Betterment ($1.1 valuation, Series B) • Side ($2.4B valuation, Series B) • Squire ($750M valuation, Series Seed/A) The fund focuses on getting proprietary off-cycle deals through its network of partners from seed funds and CEOs, like Applied Intuition and Numeral. LPs and partners include folks from top funds like DFJ, a16z, SV Angel, Index, Matrix, YC, and others. If you're building an infrastructure or enterprise software company and want to discuss fundraising, product strategy, or scaling your business, I'd love to connect on Hubble.

You'll get advice on

  • Early-Stage Fundraising Strategy
  • Enterprise Software & Vertical SaaS
  • Infrastructure & Platform Businesses
  • Product & Go-To-Market Strategy
  • Venture Capital & Company Building

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