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. 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.