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Paradigm Innovation: Building a Full-Lifecycle Battery Management System Based on Digital Energy Storage
Recently, Shandong-based YunChu New Energy closed a Pre-A funding round exceeding RMB 100 million, led by BlueRun Ventures with continued follow-on investment from Fosun and K2VC. The proceeds will be used for ongoing production capacity buildout and R&D team expansion.
Jianping Shi, Investment Partner at lead investor BlueRun Ventures, said: "New energy is a major investment focus for BlueRun, and energy storage is among our most promising sectors. Currently, both safety and cost-effectiveness present challenges in energy storage. Professor Song Ci, founder of YunChu New Energy, has years of R&D experience in digital energy storage. Leading his team from first principles, he has built a novel dynamically reconfigurable battery network that masks battery heterogeneity while improving control granularity — creating a product with strong technological innovation that has won recognition from multiple heavyweight customers. We have high conviction in the YunChu team and believe they will achieve substantial growth in the energy storage track."
YunChu New Energy is a company engaged in software-defined digital energy management systems. Its core technology is a distributed software-defined digital energy exchange system based on energy informatization technology. YunChu has a core team blending industry and research expertise, comprising specialists in power electronics, battery management, energy storage, chip design, and software development from China and abroad, with deep collaboration with Tsinghua University's Department of Electrical Engineering.
With the establishment of "dual carbon" goals, energy storage has become a new trillion-level track. While the industry is developing rapidly, safety and cost issues still constrain progress to some extent. Batteries are critical assets in electrochemical energy storage systems. Traditional battery production and utilization methods overly pursue battery uniformity, leading to pronounced "weakest link" effects in battery systems that severely degrade capacity and lifespan. On one hand, battery system cycle life is only one-third of single-cell cycle life, causing massive waste of battery value. On the other hand, as energy storage system integration scales grow, the multiplying quantity of battery products and electrical equipment increases potential hazards — energy storage safety incidents have occurred frequently worldwide.
Addressing battery inconsistency, YunChu New Energy has undertaken paradigm innovation, creating a full lifecycle battery management system based on digital energy storage. Starting from first principles, YunChu accepts and manages battery heterogeneity, introducing the internet's approach to masking terminal heterogeneity into the battery energy storage field. It has constructed a new paradigm for battery applications based on dynamically reconfigurable battery networks, transforming traditional direct hard connections between batteries into program-controlled flexible connections.
Digital energy storage, grounded in digital signal processing and transmission theory, achieves intrinsic safety and efficiency improvements in battery systems. YunChu New Energy controls the connection time of each individual battery to the charge/discharge circuit, reconstructing battery physical connection topology at the millisecond level and precisely isolating suspected faulty batteries at the microsecond level. This fundamentally eliminates thermal accumulation and thermal runaway, while achieving fine-grained battery capacity balancing (A*h) — overcoming the traditional battery system problems of "inaccurate measurement" and "inability to disconnect." After suspected faulty battery isolation, the system continues normal operation, achieving system-level battery lifespan equivalent to single-cell lifespan. This greatly improves energy storage system availability and enhances energy storage system cost-effectiveness by over 30%.
YunChu New Energy's digital energy storage technology can be applied to multiple scenarios including grid-scale energy storage on the power generation side, shared energy storage, and backup power for 5G base stations and data centers. Currently, YunChu New Energy has deep cooperation with leading enterprises including China Huadian Corporation, China Three Gorges Corporation, China Mobile, and State Grid Corporation of China, with technology deployment in multiple demonstration projects.
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BlueRun Ventures was established in Silicon Valley in 1998. BlueRun Ventures China was founded 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. It focuses on Pre-A and Series A investments across hard tech and innovative interaction, enterprise technology, new consumption, and healthcare. It has cumulatively invested in over 150 startups, including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi.com, Qudian, Songguo Mobility, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, Yunt Semiconductor, Machenike, Yunsheng Intelligent, Anxin Wangdun, and BioMap.
BlueRun Ventures has been ranked #1 in Zero2IPO's "Top 30 Early-Stage Investment Institutions in China" and ChinaVenture's "Top 30 Best Early-Stage Venture Capital Institutions in China," and was named among Preqin's Top 10 VC Fund Managers Globally for Sustained High Returns.
Additionally, BlueRun Ventures has received consecutive year recognition from media organizations including Forbes China, 36Kr, Cyzone, Caixin Media, CBNweekly, and Jiemian as "China's Best Early-Stage Institution of the Year," "China's Top Venture Capital Firm," "Most Founder-Friendly Early-Stage Institution of the Year," and "Most Influential Early-Stage Institution of the Year."