BlueRun Ventures Leads Series A in KunTai Magnetic Levitation | BlueRun Ventures

Recently, KunTai Magnetic Levitation announced the completion of its Series A funding round, led by BlueRun Ventures, with participation from Jingya Venture Capital and Hangzhou Jinyi Investment. The proceeds will be primarily used for R&D and production capacity expansion of magnetic levitation molecular pumps.

BlueRun Ventures stated: "Magnetic levitation technology, as a quintessential example of new quality productive forces, is an area that countries worldwide are racing to develop. The KunTai team possesses both multidisciplinary technical integration capabilities and product-level engineering expertise. As the lead investor in this Series A round, BlueRun Ventures has strong conviction in the KunTai Magnetic Levitation team and believes they can advance magnetic levitation technology toward broader-scale applications through their products."

Hangzhou KunTai Magnetic Levitation Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2022 and is a globally leading provider of micro-specialized magnetic levitation technology solutions. The company focuses on the R&D and application of serialized ultra-high-speed magnetic levitation motors. Its proprietary micro-specialized magnetic levitation technology platform has been refined over more than a decade by the core technical team, solving three critical barriers to widespread magnetic levitation adoption: miniaturization, mass production, and low cost. The company has developed a range of magnetic levitation products including molecular pumps, hydrogen recirculation pumps, kitchen appliance blowers, and textile machinery motors, widely used in semiconductor, industrial, precision instrumentation, hydrogen energy, scientific research, and home appliance sectors.

Applications of KunTai Magnetic Levitation's serialized magnetic levitation molecular pump products

Magnetic levitation molecular pumps are core components in precision equipment such as semiconductor chip manufacturing, optical vacuum coating, mass spectrometers, and electron microscopes. As domestic semiconductor localization advances, third-generation semiconductors leapfrog development, 5G base station new infrastructure improves, and demand for new energy lithium batteries and photovoltaic equipment grows, the domestic magnetic levitation molecular pump market has become a "ten-billion-yuan track." However, the domestic market is essentially monopolized by five foreign brands, with localization rates below 5% — a "chokepoint" issue for China's economic security. KunTai Magnetic Levitation's independently developed "ultra-high vacuum magnetic levitation compound molecular pump," featuring fully proprietary intellectual property and "disruptive" technological innovation, offers oil-free operation, high efficiency, low cost, low noise, low vibration, and high pumping speed — overturning current technical approaches and serving as a viable replacement for foreign products with vast market potential.

Applications of KunTai Magnetic Levitation's hydrogen recirculation pump and textile machinery motor products

KunTai Magnetic Levitation founder Yin Zhang stated: "After more than a decade of magnetic levitation technology R&D and innovation, the KunTai team has successfully developed serialized magnetic levitation molecular pumps, fuel cell hydrogen recirculation pumps, and other diversified magnetic levitation products. As China's industrial transformation and upgrading gradually progresses, magnetic levitation technology has vast application space. The core of magnetic levitation technology is a contactless mode of motion — no wear, meaning longer lifecycles, lower maintenance costs, and higher energy efficiency. Against the backdrop of increasingly stringent energy efficiency requirements across Chinese industry, this practical technology has arrived at a favorable moment for development and can drive industrial upgrading across the board." As a globally leading provider of micro-specialized magnetic levitation technology, KunTai Magnetic Levitation will play an important role in national energy structure reform and green, low-carbon, high-quality development, and will become a key technological pillar for achieving China's "dual carbon" strategy, contributing substantively to high-quality economic development.

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Established in 2005, BlueRun Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups.

Currently, BlueRun Ventures manages over RMB 15 billion in assets, making it one of the largest early-stage funds in China. The firm invests primarily at Pre-A and Series A stages, covering technology, consumer, and healthcare sectors, and has backed more than 200 startups including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi.com, Qudian, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, Gaussian Robotics, Songguo Mobility, Yuntu Semiconductor, Machenike, CloudSaints, Anxin Netshield, 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 Global VC Fund Managers for Sustained High Returns.

The firm has also received consecutive year recognition from Forbes China, 36Kr, Cyzone, Caixin Media, CBNweekly, Jiemian, and other media organizations as "China's Best Early-Stage Firm," "China's Top Venture Capital Institution," "Most Entrepreneur-Friendly Early-Stage Institution," and "Most Influential Early-Stage Institution."