Multiple BlueRun Ventures portfolio companies have made it onto *China Entrepreneur* magazine's annual "New Frontier 100" list.
Ranked on the BlueRun Ventures list, selected from among tens of thousands of companies.
Recently, China Entrepreneur magazine unveiled its 2022 "Future Stars" — Top 21 High-Growth Innovative Companies list.
This year, alongside the "Top 21 High-Growth Innovative Companies," China Entrepreneur screened over 10,000 small and medium-sized enterprises to identify 100 outstanding companies with an innovative spirit, releasing its 2022 "Rising 100" list. Based on three criteria — latest valuation, total funding raised, and nominations from recommenders and institutions — six BlueRun Ventures portfolio companies made the 2022 "Rising 100" list.
BlueRun Ventures award-winning companies:
Gaussian Robotics, Bluecore Technology, Mooe Robots, Youibot, CloudSail Intelligence, and LLVision
The "Future Stars" list has been running for 22 years. As of May 2022, roughly 50% of "Future Stars" have gone public or reached unicorn status, effectively capturing China's most growth-oriented companies over the past two decades.
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BlueRun Ventures was founded in Silicon Valley in 1998. BlueRun Ventures China was established in 2005 as an early-stage venture capital firm focused on startup companies.
Currently, BlueRun Ventures China manages multiple USD and RMB dual-currency funds with over RMB 15 billion in assets under management, making it one of the largest early-stage funds in China. The firm invests primarily at Pre-A and Series A stages, with coverage across hard tech and innovative interaction, enterprise technology, new consumer, and healthcare. It has invested in over 150 startups, including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi.com, Qudian, Songguo Mobility, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, YTMicro, Machenike, CloudSail Intelligence, AnchNet, and BioMap.
BlueRun Ventures has been ranked #1 on Zero2IPO's "China Top 30 Early-Stage Investment Firms" and ChinaVenture's "China Best Early-Stage Venture Capital Firms TOP30," and was named among Preqin's Top 10 Global VC Fund Managers for Sustained High Returns.
The firm has also received consecutive recognition from Forbes China, 36Kr, Cyzone, Caixin Media, CBNweekly, Jiemian, and other media organizations as "China's Best Early-Stage Firm of the Year," "China's Top Venture Capital Firm," "Most Founder-Friendly Early-Stage Firm of the Year," and "Most Influential Early-Stage Firm of the Year."