BlueRun Ventures Wins 36Kr Annual Awards for Most Influential Early-Stage Firm, Most Founder-Friendly Early-Stage Firm, and Top Investor
On June 22, 2022, **36Kr released its 2022 lists of Most Founder-Friendly Investors/Investment Institutions and Most Influential/Fastest-Growing Investment Institutions.**
On June 22, 2022, 36Kr released its annual rankings of most founder-friendly investors and investment firms, as well as most influential and most promising investment firms.
This year's evaluation drew on two research initiatives: a survey of "ideal investor" profiles conducted among the S-tier young founders featured in 36Kr's "X·36Under36" series launched in early June, and the "Investment Firm Research" project that began in March, which assessed institutional investor performance across fundraising, investment, portfolio management, and exits from 2018 to 2021 (a three-plus-one-year window).
Based on these criteria, BlueRun Ventures swept the 2022 awards:
- Most Influential Early-Stage Investment Firm CHINA 10
- Most Founder-Friendly Early-Stage Investment Firm CHINA 50
- Most Founder-Friendly Investor CHINA 100: Jui Chan
Further Reading
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BlueRun Ventures was founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley. BlueRun Ventures China was established in 2005 as a venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups.
Today, 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 the country. The firm invests primarily at Pre-A and Series A, with a focus on hard tech and novel human-computer interaction, enterprise technology, new consumer brands, and healthcare. It has backed more than 150 startups, including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi.com, Qudian, Songguo Chuxing, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, Yuntu Semiconductor, Machenike, CloudSaints, Anxinnet, 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 VC Firms Top 30," and was named to Preqin's global top 10 VC fund managers for sustained high returns.
The firm has also received consecutive year-over-year recognition from Forbes China, 36Kr, Cyzone, Caixin Media, CBNweekly, Jiemian, and other media outlets 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."