BlueRun Ventures Continues to Back, "White Whale Open Source" Raises Another Tens of Millions of RMB | BlueRun Ventures
Building the Next-Generation Cloud-Native DataOps Platform
Recently, Beijing WhaleOps Information Technology Co., Ltd. ("WhaleOps") completed a new round of financing worth tens of millions of RMB, led by Kaitai Capital with continued participation from BlueRun Ventures, the investor from its angel round. Following this round, the company will further recruit top talent, research and develop cutting-edge technologies in data synchronization and MLOps, and strengthen the development of its DataOps open-source ecosystem.
Shi Jianping, Investment Partner at BlueRun Ventures, said: Data is accumulating at high speed, data source technologies are highly diverse, and the demands for real-time, reliable data transfer are growing — enterprises face enormous challenges in managing data efficiently, reliably, in compliance, and securely. "WhaleOps provides comprehensive DataOps solutions that help enterprises better adapt to data processing and governance in the era of big data and cloud-native computing. The team has successfully incubated multiple well-known open-source projects and currently serves over a thousand large enterprises across internet, cloud computing, finance, telecommunications, and advanced manufacturing, serving as their core data management infrastructure. We are very optimistic about the WhaleOps team and believe they have the capability to become an internationally recognized enterprise in the DataOps field."
Founded in August 2021, WhaleOps was established by multiple Apache Software Foundation Members and world-class data domain experts, with over a decade of deep expertise in big data open-source software R&D. Its core employees are scientists and senior experts in big data technology from IBM, eBay, Informatica, Alibaba, ByteDance, and other leading companies, with R&D personnel accounting for over 90% of staff. The company possesses profound enterprise-grade data scheduling and integration capabilities in DataOps.
The core team has consistently focused on big data and cloud computing, dedicated to building the next-generation cloud-native DataOps platform that empowers enterprises to intelligently process, schedule, govern, and manage their data assets in the big data and cloud era.
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Building the Next-Generation Cloud-Native Intelligent DataOps Platform
In the big data era, massive volumes of data and increasingly complex processing demands have spawned numerous data engine companies, with data processing and usage scenarios proliferating and growing more sophisticated. In the world of software development, DevOps efficiently solves development and operations problems. But in the AI era, as data scale and source complexity continue to climb and data usage scenarios expand rapidly, DataOps has emerged as a focal point for industry and research communities.
DataOps not only serves the development-operations communication function of DevOps, but also leverages easy-to-use SaaS interfaces, cloud-native architecture, machine learning, and other next-generation technologies to improve the efficiency of different enterprise roles in solving data problems and analyzing data capabilities, rapidly stimulating market demand and making it one of the most cutting-edge technology and production practice trends.
As a next-generation cloud-native DataOps platform, WhaleOps provides comprehensive DataOps solutions that help enterprises better adapt to data processing and governance in the era of big data and cloud-native computing, particularly by helping companies quickly break down internal data silos and connect the entire lifecycle from underlying data to machine learning projects.
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Entering the Commercial Landscape Through Open-Source Community Building
In terms of open-source community operations, WhaleOps is the startup with the most Apache Software Foundation Members, practicing the Apache Way and building globally active open-source project communities around principles of openness, equality, and collaboration.
As an open-source commercialization company built on Apache open-source projects, WhaleOps is the driving force behind Apache DolphinScheduler, the next-generation cloud-native workflow scheduling system, and SeaTunnel, a data integration platform currently in Apache incubation. Currently, over 1,000 domestic and international enterprise users across finance, telecommunications, e-commerce, education, transportation and logistics, energy, cloud vendors, healthcare, and industrial manufacturing use these two platforms, receiving widespread positive feedback.
Apache DolphinScheduler is the first top-level project in the big data workflow scheduling domain to be led and contributed to Apache by Chinese developers. As a widely popular open-source scheduling project, it has 48 Committers and 21 PMC members, with 360+ Contributors actively participating in community building. Since going open-source, Apache DolphinScheduler has steadily completed 20+ version upgrades and iterations, maintains an ASF Project Statistics score of 9+, consistently ranks on GitHub monthly trends, and has received awards including "Most Popular Project of 2021."
SeaTunnel, as a rising star in the Apache incubator, currently has nearly 100 Contributors participating in community building, with 100+ companies including Bilibili, DiDi, OPPO, Tencent Cloud, Shopee, and VIP.com using it in production.
While continuously iterating on Apache DolphinScheduler and SeaTunnel, WhaleOps is also dedicated to building the next-generation cloud-native intelligent DataOps platform, solving enterprise challenges around cloud-based data processing and scheduling, rapid data acquisition, and overall cloud-based data asset management, assisting in the comprehensive goals of enterprise digital transformation.
WhaleOps has released WhaleScheduler, a commercial product based on Apache DolphinScheduler. Developed to meet enterprise customers' demands for complexity, stability, compliance, and high performance in scheduling systems, it is positioned as an enterprise-grade unified cloud-native data scheduling management platform, dedicated to establishing unified development standards and operations methods for enterprise big data jobs, and providing unified management, scheduling, and monitoring of jobs across all systems.
WhaleScheduler's Seven Core Functional Modules
Currently, WhaleOps has established partnerships with leading cloud vendors at home and abroad including AWS and Alibaba Cloud. With users at its core, WhaleOps is advancing a win-win ecosystem strategy, and under new ecosystem business models and enterprise growth models, is committed to cooperating with cloud vendors, independent developers, and system integrators, integrating upstream and downstream vendors in the big data domain, improving product experience, and exploring broader usage scenarios across the internet industry.
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BlueRun Ventures was founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley. BlueRun Ventures China was established in 2005 and is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups.
Currently, BlueRun Ventures China manages multiple USD and RMB dual-currency funds with assets under management exceeding 15 billion RMB, making it one of the largest early-stage funds in China. Its investment stage focuses on Pre-A and Series A rounds, covering hard tech and innovative interaction, enterprise technology, new consumer, and healthcare sectors. It has cumulatively invested in over 150 startup companies, including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi Used Car, Qudian, Songguo Mobility, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, Yuntu Semiconductor, Machenike, Yunsheng Intelligence, Anxin Network Shield, and BioMap.
BlueRun Ventures has been ranked first in Zero2IPO's "China Early-Stage Investment Institutions Top 30," first in ChinaVenture's "China Best Early-Stage Venture Capital Institutions TOP30," and named among Preqin's Top 10 venture capital 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 institutions, including "China's Best Early-Stage Institution of the Year," "China's Top Venture Capital Institution," "Most Entrepreneur-Friendly Early-Stage Institution of the Year," and "Most Influential Early-Stage Institution of the Year."