BlueRun Ventures won multiple awards from ChinaVenture, including Top 3 Early-Stage VC of the Year and Top 10 Best Returns.

On May 30, 2022, ChinaVenture unveiled its 2021 annual rankings of Chinese venture capital and private equity investment institutions — the "ChinaVenture Awards."

BlueRun Ventures earned recognition for its deep track record in early-stage tech investing, winning the following honors for 2021:

• Top 3 Best Early-Stage VC Firms in China
• Top 10 Best Early-Stage VC Firms by Returns in China
• Top 20 Best Enterprise Service Investors in China

Portfolio companies in the BlueRun Ventures family also received honors for their leadership in their respective fields:

• Youibot: Best Advanced Manufacturing Investment Case in China's Advanced Manufacturing & High-Tech Sector
• Xiaobang Guihua: Best Investment Case in China's Tech-Enabled Finance Sector

Widely regarded as a bellwether for China's equity investment industry, ChinaVenture has published these rankings for 16 consecutive years. The awards for BlueRun Ventures and its portfolio companies represent independent third-party validation of the firm's unwavering commitment to early-stage technology investing. To date, BlueRun Ventures has backed more than 150 startups across hard tech and novel interaction, enterprise technology, new consumer, and healthcare. Rooted in its Silicon Valley DNA, BlueRun believes that being "undefined" is the essence of entrepreneurship and innovation — and that early-stage investing means continually pushing boundaries and daring to go first. Since 2015, BlueRun has focused on "hard tech" investments, with continued emphasis on its "Four News": new energy, new efficiency, new interaction, and new science. We firmly believe that every era's transformation is driven by technological innovation, enabled by some form of energy conversion, supported by efficiency-enhancing tools, and refined through continuous iteration that reshapes organizational forms. Going forward, BlueRun Ventures will keep seeking out innovators who dive headfirst into undefined, cross-disciplinary domains — backing those who dare to go first in redefining the future.

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BlueRun Ventures was founded in Silicon Valley in 1998. 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. It invests primarily at Pre-A and Series A across hard tech and novel interaction, enterprise technology, new consumer, and healthcare. The firm has backed more than 150 startups to date, including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi.com, Qudian, Songguo Chuxing, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, Yuntion Semiconductor, Machenike, CloudSaints, Anxin Wangdun, and BioMap.

BlueRun Ventures has been ranked #1 among China's top 30 early-stage investment institutions by Zero2IPO, #1 among China's best early-stage VC firms by ChinaVenture, and among Preqin's top 10 venture capital 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 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."