Jing Lin is the Founder and Managing Director of KOFA Healthcare. See contact routes.
Jing Lin is the Founder and Managing Director of KOFA Healthcare, a venture capital firm and evergreen family office he established in 2016 to support biotech and healthcare innovations. The firm’s investment thesis targets US-based startups from seed to commercial stages, with a primary focus on Series A rounds in med-tech sectors including women’s health, orthopedics, diagnostics, and cardiovascular. KOFA Healthcare has completed 11 investments, with its latest being a Pre-Seed round in illumicell AI in April 2025, though specific check sizes and lead/follow behavior are not publicly disclosed. Notable portfolio companies include illumicell AI, while other named investments are not explicitly listed in available public records. Lin holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy from Syracuse University and an MS from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated in the MSx Class of 2025. There is no publicly available distinctive point of view or published writing by Lin on investor philosophy beyond the firm’s stated focus on addressing clinical unmet needs.
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