Cloud Storage New Energy Secures Another 100-Million-Yuan+ Pre-A+ Round | BlueRun Ventures

Recently, Cloud Energy Storage New Energy ("Yunchu Xinnengyuan") officially completed a Pre-A+ funding round exceeding RMB 100 million. The round was jointly led by Zhenghai Group, Shenzhen Jianhe, Shuimu Tsinghua Alumni Fund, Tianyu Jiujiu, and Shuimu Wutong, among other investors. The proceeds will primarily fund new product R&D, core capability building, and market expansion — supporting Cloud Energy Storage's continued advancement in technology, product development, and industry competitiveness.

BlueRun Ventures led Cloud Energy Storage New Energy's Pre-A round.

Cloud Energy Storage New Energy positions itself as a core digital energy storage equipment manufacturer for the energy internet, as well as a vertical industry solutions provider. The company holds internationally leading, independently developed intellectual property in digital energy storage core technology. Through its digital energy exchange system based on dynamically reconfigurable battery networks, it has realized a design philosophy that accommodates and manages battery heterogeneity — overturning the fixed series-parallel battery application paradigm that has persisted for over 200 years since the battery's invention, and fundamentally solving the "weakest link" problem that has long plagued battery systems worldwide.

In recent years, the energy storage industry has shown rapid growth and prosperity. Faced with surging market demand and increasingly complex application scenarios, issues around safety, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency have gradually become focal points for the industry. Digital energy storage introduces the internet's technical architecture for masking terminal heterogeneity and its "best-effort" design philosophy into battery energy storage systems, solving the pervasive "can't measure accurately, can't disconnect" problems in traditional battery energy storage systems — dramatically improving performance metrics including charge/discharge efficiency, cycle life, reliability, and safety.

In 2022, Cloud Energy Storage New Energy established deep partnerships with multiple renowned industry leaders, accumulating signed orders of 480 MWh and installed capacity of 260 MWh. The company has currently established its headquarters in Yantai, Shandong; an R&D and management center in Beijing; and a large-scale digital energy storage equipment manufacturing base in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, with planned annual production capacity of 1 GWh of digital energy storage systems. The Cloud Energy Storage New Energy Digital Energy Storage Equipment Industrial Park, currently under construction in Yantai, is expected to commence production in mid-to-late 2023. In 2023, Cloud Energy Storage New Energy will continue to uphold its corporate mission as an "enabler of the energy internet," deepening the integration of industry-academia-research-application resources, activating advanced energy equipment production capacity, expanding digital energy storage industry applications, and providing strong support for achieving China's "30-60" dual carbon goals.

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Originating 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. Its investment stage focuses on Pre-A and Series A rounds, covering hard tech and innovative interaction, enterprise technology, new consumer, and healthcare sectors. It has cumulatively invested in over 150 startups, including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi Used Car, Qudian, Songguo Mobility, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, Yuntou Semiconductor, Machenike, Cloud Saint Intelligence, Anxin Netshield, and BioMap.

BlueRun Ventures has been ranked first in 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 Venture Capital Fund Managers for Sustained High Returns.

Additionally, BlueRun Ventures has received consecutive annual honors from Forbes China, 36Kr, Cyzone, Caixin Media, CBNweekly, Jiemian, and other media organizations, including "China's Best Early-Stage Institution of the Year," "China's Top Venture Capital Firm," "Most Entrepreneur-Friendly Early-Stage Institution of the Year," and "Most Influential Early-Stage Institution of the Year."