Jinlin Wang

General Partner, Foothill Ventures
Jinlin Wang, co-founder of Auryc and a managing partner, leverages his optimization-specialist/software-engineer background and mountaintop philosophy to rigorously assess product–market fit for cross-disciplinary deep-tech and AI.
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About Jinlin Wang

Jinlin Wang came to the U.S. in 1996 with $50 and student debt, transitioning from rural China to Silicon Valley where he co-founded Auryc and now serves as Managing Partner at Foothill Ventures. He brings a mountaintop philosophy to seed investing, emphasizing rigorous product-market fit evaluation and focusing on cross-disciplinary deep-tech and AI opportunities that reflect his background as an optimization specialist and software engineer.

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Foothill Ventures

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AI, Deeptech / Hardware, Health, Energy, Robotics
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Pre-Seed - Series A
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$100K - $10M

Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused fund that explicitly backs immigrant and cross-border founders across software, life sciences, and deep tech, with partners combining ex-Google and Palantir product leadership with deep scientific backgrounds to underwrite technically complex companies at the intersection of disciplines. The fund has built a track record with breakout companies like WeRide, MemVerge, and Metalenz while maintaining an unusually content-heavy blog and structured guidance approach that portfolio founders praise as "the most transparent VC group I know."

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