Boray Data Closes Over RMB 100 Million Funding Round, Doubling Down on Domestic Database Alternatives | BlueRun Ventures

Data intelligence infrastructure company RapidsData has completed a new strategic funding round, with investment from Zhongke Haichuang, Shanghai International, Beijing Science and Technology Park Construction, Hefei Industry Investment, and Chaoyang Technology Innovation. The investor lineup includes an industrial fund jointly established by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Haier, as well as government guidance funds from Beijing, Hefei, and Shanghai. BlueRun Ventures was an investor in RapidsData's Pre-A and Series A rounds.

RapidsData is an intelligent data computing company serving the data economy era, built around two core product systems: self-developed databases and artificial intelligence. The company develops entirely independently from the底层 up, focusing on breakthroughs in intelligent data computing core technologies and product innovation. It provides an intelligent analysis platform for massive data processing based on high-speed computing, along with integrated hardware-software data storage and computing appliances. Backed by硬核 core technology, it enables real-time, agile, and efficient data value extraction — combining real-time processing with intelligence — to support government intelligence and the digital transformation of national industries.

RapidsData's current core technology products include RapidsDB SQL, an intelligent data analysis and processing platform, data storage and computing appliances, and database acceleration and security chips.

With dual headquarters in Beijing and Shanghai, RapidsData has established R&D centers in Guangzhou, Wuhan, Hefei, and other locations. It has also jointly established laboratories and working groups with Renmin University's School of Statistics, China University of Mining and Technology, the National Information Center's Digital China Research Institute, and the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center to accelerate the落地 and industrialization of advanced digital technologies.

As one of the few domestic tech companies that truly masters key database core technologies and holds international patents, RapidsData not only focuses on foundational "root" technology breakthroughs but has also built a comprehensive intelligent data computing product system and industry standards around these innovations, earning strong reputation and trust through partnerships with benchmark enterprises in finance, telecommunications, energy, and government services.

This strategic investment reflects, on one hand, capital markets' firm consensus on the critical opportunity window for digital economy infrastructure construction and the major development of core information technology innovation technologies; on the other hand, it represents recognition of RapidsData's complete and independent core intellectual property in key technology domains and its "internationally leading data intelligence technology capabilities."

RapidsData will continue to use core technology breakthroughs and international standard-setting as strategic drivers, actively expanding its upstream and downstream industrial ecosystem and industry partner network to build an internationally competitive digital technology industrial cluster. At the same time, it will accelerate the deep integration of the digital and real economies, providing standardized products and innovative applications for benchmark enterprises and key scenarios in priority industries undergoing digital transformation, establishing itself as a bellwether for industry digital transformation.

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Founded 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. The firm invests primarily at Pre-A and Series A stages, covering hard tech and innovative interaction, enterprise technology, new consumer, and healthcare sectors. It has invested in over 150 startups, including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi.com, Qudian, Songguo Mobility, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, Yuntu Semiconductor, Machenike, CloudSaints 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 Firms TOP30," and was named among Preqin's Top 10 VC Fund Managers Globally for Sustained High Returns.

The firm has also received consecutive 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 Firm," "Most Entrepreneur-Friendly Early-Stage Firm of the Year," and "Most Influential Early-Stage Firm of the Year."