BlueRun Ventures | BlueRun Ventures Leads PowerLaw AI's Nearly RMB 80 Million Pre-B Round

Recently, PowerLaw AI announced the completion of a nearly RMB 80 million Pre-B funding round. This round was led by BlueRun Ventures, with follow-on investment from eSignBa, a leading electronic signature provider. Existing shareholders including HSG, Huayu Chuangke, Source Code Capital, Linear Capital, and Zhipu AI continued to increase their stakes. BlueRun Ventures stated: Generative AI has rapidly entered consumers' field of vision over the past year. It not only plays a huge role in building innovative To C applications, but has also significantly driven the wave of intelligent upgrades in the To B domain. PowerLaw AI is an artificial intelligence company based on NLP, data mining, and other technologies, providing intelligent full-lifecycle contract management for large enterprises. Thanks to the boost from generative AI and large language models, the company successfully developed China's first legal LLM. As the lead investor in this round, BlueRun Ventures looks forward to the company continuing to deepen its expertise in legal LLMs, continuously iterating and optimizing its intelligent contract management products, enabling enterprises to access legal services in a smarter and more efficient manner, and constantly driving innovation and development in the industry.

PowerLaw AI is committed to using technology to make legal services better and more accessible. Deeply rooted in contract intelligence, the company has successively launched MeCheck, an intelligent contract review product, and MeFlow, an intelligent contract management product, helping enterprises upgrade to an integrated business-finance contract management model and enhancing their cost reduction and efficiency improvement, compliance risk control, and precise decision-making capabilities in complex market environments. This year, the company also partnered with Zhipu AI, a leading general-purpose LLM provider, to launch PowerLawGLM, a billion-parameter legal vertical LLM, and deeply empowered its intelligent contract business with legal LLM capabilities to strengthen product competitiveness centered on intelligence. Based on PowerLaw's differentiated competitive advantages in the intelligent contract track and its leading position in legal LLMs, the company's business has achieved growth of over 200% compared to last year. In addition, PowerLaw has launched "Wu You Wu Lv" (Worry-Free Legal) retainer legal counsel services, providing timely, affordable, high-quality legal services to tens of millions of SMEs that struggle to access legal services, at prices of just a few thousand yuan per year. Based on PowerLawGLM's capabilities and through an AI + legal professional dual-guarantee model, it addresses daily legal service needs including legal consultation, legal document drafting, and review during SMEs' production and operations. The company's core team comes from Tsinghua University's Computer Science Department, with strong algorithm capabilities, applying cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) technology to the legal field. PowerLaw consistently adheres to a route of deep integration between technology and law — over 30% of employees have legal backgrounds, with senior legal professionals participating in technology and product development, providing practical insights on knowledge and scenarios. Pain points in enterprise contract management mainly concentrate on inefficient manual processing workflows, lack of risk management mechanisms, and insufficient履约 monitoring and reminders. With the development of AI technology and LLM technology, enterprise demand for intelligent contract management solutions has gradually strengthened, particularly in improving efficiency, tracking processes, enhancing compliance, and deepening digital transformation, providing rich scenarios for AI and LLM technology applications. The legal LLM-powered intelligent contract management system built by PowerLaw comprehensively enhances intelligent capabilities in contract recognition, contract extraction, contract review, and other scenarios. Through more precise analysis of key contract data performance via LLMs, it helps enterprises more intuitively understand their contract management status and boosts contract management efficiency. PowerLaw AI's product innovation, solution maturity, and market foresight have been recognized by nearly a hundred leading customers across internet, manufacturing, chain retail, finance, healthcare, and other industries. This funding round will be used to consolidate PowerLaw's leading position in legal LLMs and the intelligent contract track, improving intelligent contract product standardization and intelligence levels through continuous training and practical application of legal LLMs, and building a delivery center to prepare for sustained scalable business growth. At the same time, based on legal LLM capabilities, it will explore new legal service businesses, promoting LLM application and scalable growth in SME legal service scenarios. PowerLaw AI founder Cunchao Tu stated: Law, as a typical text-in, text-out scenario, is currently one of the most promising vertical scenarios for LLM application. PowerLaw will leverage its long-term accumulation of knowledge and data in the legal field, combined with the technical advantages brought by billion-parameter legal LLMs, and through deep cooperation with strategic investors, promote the practical application of legal LLMs in intelligent contract scenarios and sustained rapid business growth. At the same time, PowerLaw will remain true to its original aspiration, continuing to explore the boundaries of LLM capabilities and new legal service models, fulfilling its mission of using technology to make legal services better and more accessible.

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Originating in Silicon Valley, BlueRun Ventures was established in 2005 as a venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups.

Currently, BlueRun Ventures manages multiple USD and RMB dual-currency funds in China, with assets under management exceeding RMB 15 billion, making it one of the largest early-stage funds domestically. Its investment stage focuses on Pre-A and Series A rounds, covering technology, consumer, and healthcare sectors. It has cumulatively invested in nearly 200 startup companies, including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi.com, Qudian, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, Gaussian Robotics, Songguo Mobility, Yuntu Semiconductor, Machenike, YunSheng Intelligence, Anxin Wangdun, and BioMap.

BlueRun Ventures has been ranked #1 in Zero2IPO's "China Top 30 Early-Stage Investment Institutions," #1 in ChinaVenture's "China Best Early-Stage Venture Capital Institutions TOP30," and named among Preqin's Top 10 VC fund managers globally for sustained high-return performance.

Additionally, BlueRun Ventures has for multiple consecutive years received honors from Forbes China, 36Kr, Cyzone, Caixin Media, CBNweekly, Jiemian, and other media organizations, including "China Best Early-Stage Institution of the Year," "China Top Venture Capital Institution," "Most Entrepreneur-Friendly Early-Stage Institution of the Year," and "Most Influential Early-Stage Institution of the Year."