BlueRun Ventures Launches "Blueprint" Industrial Ecosystem Platform: Entering Shenzhen to Co-Create a Vision for Industrial Intelligence

On August 24–25, BlueRun Ventures launched its inaugural "Blueprint — Sci-Tech Industry Tour" series in Shenzhen. More than 20 frontier technology portfolio companies participated in the event, which featured two stops. The first was a visit to Huawei, where attendees explored digital opportunities in the large-model era together. The second was the "Nanshan District Listed Companies Industrial Incubation Alliance Series · BlueRun Ventures Special Session," where BlueRun Ventures brought its portfolio companies together with nearly ten outstanding Nanshan-based listed companies including Sangfor, Orbbec, Minglida, OCT, and Konka, as well as representatives from multiple financial institutions for industry exchange.

Technological innovation is a long and arduous journey. Moving from the laboratory to real-world applications requires coordinated effort across the entire chain of industry, academia, and research. That's why BlueRun Ventures has consistently committed to diving deep into this chain, building a distinctive early-stage ecosystem that encompasses key government bodies, industry leaders, top universities, and research institutes.

This is the original intention behind BlueRun Ventures' launch of "Blueprint — Sci-Tech Industry Tour." Centered on key regions and core industries, BlueRun Ventures is constructing a platform that connects technology innovation enterprises with the broader industrial ecosystem. By mobilizing internal and external resources from its own network and beyond, it aims to accelerate the integration of core technological innovations with commercial applications, optimizing resources and achieving mutual benefit.

During the Huawei visit, experts from Huawei and Huawei Cloud offered in-depth analysis from two dimensions — corporate development and technological innovation — covering topics including core corporate values, strategic decoding methodology, digital transformation, large models, and enterprise technology innovation in the cloud-native era, delivering practical value to BlueRun's portfolio companies.

In the technology innovation session, experts explained how enterprises can leverage AI, IoT, big data, and cloud computing to open new markets and deliver new products and services, and introduced the value that the Pangu large model can bring to enterprises. In the technology strategy session, experts focused on methodologies for intelligently discerning customer needs. In the AI era, enterprises face fiercer competition and rapidly shifting market conditions. By accurately understanding customer needs and responding with agility, companies can better meet expectations, enhance market competitiveness, and achieve sustainable development.

At the "Nanshan District Listed Companies Industrial Incubation Alliance Series · BlueRun Ventures Special Session," Jian Na, Deputy District Mayor of Nanshan District People's Government, delivered the opening remarks. She noted that Nanshan possesses exceptional economic vitality — through every wave of industrial transformation, it has kept pace, found its position, and seized opportunities. She expressed confidence that an increasing number of representative enterprises will emerge in Nanshan, and that more and more well-known companies will leverage capital markets to grow and expand from Nanshan to the world.

Jui Chan, Managing Partner of BlueRun Ventures, proposed that BlueRun Ventures hopes to use the "Blueprint" series as an anchor point to better integrate and land core technological innovations within commercial scenarios, achieving resource optimization and mutual benefit with local governments and industrial groups, making both regions and enterprises more competitive in the market, and jointly painting the future vision we all share. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with China's most complete industrial chain and most dynamic market, is an excellent region for entrepreneurs to invest and build businesses. This Shenzhen trip marks the debut of "Blueprint." We experienced the vitality and potential of Nanshan on this journey, and look forward to writing even more exciting chapters together in the future.

During the event, over 20 BlueRun portfolio companies and nearly ten listed company representatives introduced themselves and discussed potential business synergies. Many guests indicated they had discovered collaboration opportunities, expressing their intention to jointly build an industrial intelligence cooperation network and explore new development opportunities together.

Following this, Rong Jing, Director at BlueRun Ventures, moderated the roundtable discussion "Converging Wisdom in Nanshan: How Frontier Technology Powers Industrial Intelligence," where participants explored pathways for local industrial intelligence development. Representatives noted that for frontier technology enterprises, Shenzhen's world-leading manufacturing clusters enable rapid advancement from R&D to commercialization. At the same time, frontier technology companies can also drive the intelligent transformation of manufacturing from both hardware and software dimensions.

BlueRun Ventures adheres to the principle of "painting the blueprint through to completion," rooting itself locally and deepening its presence in industry. As the era of technological innovation arrives, ever more innovation opportunities will emerge across the nation's industrial clusters. Going forward, the "Blueprint — Sci-Tech Industry Tour" series will continue into key regions and core industries across China, constantly deepening the coupling of industry and capital, contributing to capital market development and the construction of a sci-tech industrial ecosystem.

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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 in the country. Its investment stage focuses on Pre-A and Series A rounds, covering hard tech and innovative interaction, enterprise technology, new consumption, and healthcare. It has invested in over 150 startups, including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi Used Cars, Qudian, Songguo Mobility, Ganji.com, Monster Charging, Yuntu Semiconductor, Machenike, CloudShen Intelligence, Anxin Network Shield, and BioMap.

BlueRun Ventures has been ranked #1 on Zero2IPO's "China Top 30 Early-Stage Investment Institutions" and ChinaVenture's "China Best Early-Stage Venture Capital Institutions TOP30," and was named among Preqin's Top 10 VC Fund Managers Globally for Sustained High Returns.

Additionally, BlueRun Ventures has received consecutive year-over-year 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 Institution," "Early-Stage Firm Most Welcomed by Entrepreneurs," and "Most Influential Early-Stage Investment Institution."