BlueRun Ventures and Ant Group Are Looking for the Most Hardcore Deep-Tech Founders — Is That You? | Registration Closing Soon
From barely a peep to booming — come aboard!
In December, BlueRun Ventures' "Booming Camp" will join forces with Ant Group's "MaShang Startup Camp" to co-host a hard tech-focused session, bringing together top hard tech founders and high-potential talent to explore the future of the industry.
As a leading early-stage tech fund in China, BlueRun Ventures' hard tech portfolio includes Gaussian Robotics, AgiBot, Galaxy Universal, Wanxun Technology, Tian Cheng Technology, Youibot, Bluecore Technology, VITURE, Borei Recycling, Kuntaitech Magnetic Levitation, Jike Optoelectronics, Garen Technology, and TCab Tech. In 2023, BlueRun Ventures launched "Booming Camp," a distributed innovation community designed to help founders go from zero to one — from silence to booming.
MaShang Startup Camp is a premier entrepreneurship program launched by Ant Group for early-stage CEOs, dedicated to building China's most cutting-edge community of emerging business leaders. With a mission to discover and accompany new commercial leaders, it aims to be a one-stop service platform for early-stage founder growth.
Through this collaboration, Booming Camp and MaShang Startup Camp will deeply integrate their top-tier resources — mentors, curriculum, and industry networks — to provide founders with more comprehensive support. In other words, by attending this one hard tech session, you'll gain the best of both camps.
This hard tech session will run for two days and one night, with even greater information density and more granular breakdowns of the challenges founders face at different stages. If you're reading this and thinking: "This is exactly the startup camp I've been looking for?!" — then welcome aboard!
📢📢 Registration closes in late December!
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It's a distributed innovation community, and also a simulation of the entrepreneurial journey.
Entrepreneurship isn't a命题作文 — it's a process of "defining the undefined." So Booming Camp isn't your typical "startup camp"; it's a startup DAO.
Decentralized Autonomous Organization — the core principle is that everyone matters. That's why at Booming Camp, 60% of the time is co-creation: Workshops, Demo Inns, not one-way lectures. Founders are the real protagonists.
What is co-creation? Session formats, discussion topics, and evaluation incentives are all proposed and democratically voted on by the entire Booming community. And the fruits of co-creation are shared by all.
The challenges of entrepreneurship span capital insights, product building, go-to-market, brand communications, team construction... At Booming Camp, you'll tackle each of these with some of the sharpest minds around.
You'll start from demo, studying how a product gets built from 0 to 1 — from technical implementation to interface optimization, and how to iterate rapidly to adapt to ever-shifting market demands;
Seasoned investors from BlueRun and Ant's strategic investment team will dive deep with you on how capital can accelerate your journey, analyzing how the current funding environment is reshaping the startup ecosystem, and helping you clarify how to find capital partners who'll run the long race with you;
You'll exchange industry intelligence with maximum efficiency, seeing new people, new developments, and new dimensions through perceptive eyes that catch what you might have missed. These exchanges will help you grasp the industry's pulse and anticipate future trends;
You'll also meet top-tier founders, hearing them share cutting-edge practices and insights, reflections on entrepreneurship — and they'll participate in the co-creation too;
This hard tech session will also integrate MaShang Startup Camp's signature curriculum —
In this new era of tech innovation, how should founders build hard tech brands? MaShang Startup Camp's mentors emphasize practical combat: exclusive Alibaba-veteran mentors, cross-domain celebrity experts, and other heavyweight instructors will draw from real case studies, offering never-before-published firsthand materials and internal post-mortems, complete narratives from start to finish, and fresh perspectives through an endgame lens.
Alibaba's strategy and organizational capabilities have long been admired, and MaShang Startup Camp will deliver its exclusive deconstruction of this topic, from strategy to execution. From the "upper three paths" of mission, vision, and values; to the full cycle of strategy generation, planning, execution, and review — the art of strategy; down to the "lower three paths" of organization, talent, and KPIs that ensure落地. Connecting top-level design, execution division, and organizational guarantees into one complete chain.
They say they love co-creating at Booming Camp.
Whenever a co-creation assignment drops, Booming members kick off discussions anywhere, anytime. Some groups debate until 2 a.m. in the only still-lit office seats. Others run two online brainstorming sessions on top of collaborative docs. Founders are busy — so why so serious about "homework"? One Booming member put it: "It's not a burden, it's exciting. Normally I never get to exchange intel and debate critical issues with this many brilliant founders."
They say they've made real friends at Booming Camp.
Why do CEOs always say entrepreneurship is lonely? Maybe because they have too few people they can be honest with. Facing employees, investors, partners — most of the time it's good news only. But Founder gets Founder. From the same vantage point, Booming members share the potholes they've hit, the detours they've taken. No muddying the waters. Only true friends who'll tell you the hard truths.
They say they hear high-quality real talk at Booming Camp.
AI competition is fierce. Whether in technology or commercialization, once a direction is validated, the market rapidly turns red ocean. From tech to market, from company management to external relations, founders constantly need high-quality information — and therefore need candid, diverse exchange even more:
Booming Camp × MaShang Startup Camp [Hard Tech Session] officially opens registration today. If you're the most hardcore hard tech founder out there, click the QR code below to apply!
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