Web3 & SaaS Explorer Day｜BlueRun Ventures US Bay Area Event — Now Open for Registration

蓝驰创投蓝驰创投··0·0

Join us in the Bay Area on June 26, 2–5 PM, to explore the future trends of Web3 and SaaS!

Web3 & SaaS Explorer Day

BlueRun Ventures

Now Registering for Our Bay Area Offline Event!

Date & Time:

June 26, 2022 | 14:00 - 17:00 PDT

Location:

Mountain View, CA

(Space is limited; confirmed registration required for entry)

BlueRun Ventures

BlueRun Ventures China

BlueRun Ventures was founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley. 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 $2 billion in assets under management, making it one of the largest early-stage funds in China. The firm invests primarily at Pre-A and Series A stages across hard tech, innovative interaction, enterprise technology, new consumer, and healthcare, with over 150 portfolio companies including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi.com, Qudian, Songguo Chuxing, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, Yuntu Semiconductor, and Machenike.

This Bay Area offline event will feature stories from outstanding entrepreneurs and bring together more companies to innovate together.

BlueRun Ventures Partners

Jui Chan

  • Managing Partner, BlueRun Ventures

  • Joined BlueRun Ventures (Silicon Valley) in 2000; founded BlueRun Ventures China fund and team in 2005

  • 10 years of industry experience and 20 years of early-stage tech investment experience across China and the United States

  • Focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise services and hard tech

  • Named to Forbes The Midas List (Top 50 Global VC Investors) and Zero2IPO China Top 10 Early-Stage Investors

  • Led early-stage investments in Ganji.com, PPTV, QingCloud Technology (SH.688316), Yimaiche, and Yunsheng Intelligence; also participated in major strategic M&A including Ganji.com/58.com

  • Formerly at Singapore Telecom and IBM, where he worked in computer and network systems engineering management

Terry Zhu

  • Managing Partner, BlueRun Ventures

  • Early investor in Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI; 02015.HK) and Energy Monster (NASDAQ: EM)

  • Named to 2021 Forbes China Top 100 VC Investors, 2020 ChinaVenture Best Early-Stage Investors Top 50, 2020 36Kr Best Early-Stage Investors Top 50, and 2020 FOFWEEKLY 30 GP Youth Leaders

  • Nearly 20 years of experience in venture capital, business development, and management consulting

Jimmy Shi

  • Investment Partner, BlueRun Ventures

  • Focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise services, hard tech, and Web3

  • Representative investments: Jishi Design, WhaleOps, APIFox, Luchen Tech

  • Founded Duomi Music, which grew into a leading independent mobile music service with over 7 million DAU

  • Former global R&D executive at Oracle in the United States; over 10 years of IT industry and multinational management experience

Patrick Liu

  • Investment Partner, BlueRun Ventures

  • Focuses on investments in Web3, AR/VR

  • Serial entrepreneur with experience across multiple Chinese internet market segments, including China's earliest social networks, first wave of Chinese internet companies going global, and China's mobile gaming boom

Event Highlights

3 hours of insights from outstanding entrepreneurs

6 distinguished guest speakers

100 entrepreneurs seeking opportunities

1.5 hours of Q&A with guests

Agenda

14:00-14:10

Opening Remarks by Jui Chan, Managing Partner, BlueRun Ventures

Welcome address

14:10-14:30

Presentation by Jimmy Shi, Investment Partner, BlueRun Ventures:

BlueRun's development journey, investment strategy, and future investment plans in North America

14:30-14:50

Enterprise Services & AI Founders Panel:

Dongxu Huang, Co-founder & CTO, PingCAP

Yang You, Founder, Luchen Tech

Guo Wei, Founder, WhaleOps

14:50-15:10

Break

15:10-15:40

Web3 Founders Panel:

Liu Zhicong, Founder, BackCloud

Victor, Founder, anchain.ai

Li Xi, Founder, MetaForce, Inc.

15:40-17:00

Networking:

Free-form exchange with guest speakers and BlueRun Ventures partners to discuss the North American venture capital ecosystem

Guest Speakers

Dongxu Huang

Co-founder & CTO of PingCAP; formerly at Microsoft Research Asia. Senior infrastructure software engineer and architect with expertise in distributed systems and database development.

PingCAP: A leading enterprise-grade open-source distributed database company offering open-source distributed database products, solutions and consulting, technical support, and training certification services.

Yang You

Founder of Luchen Tech; Presidential Young Professor at National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science. Previously set world records for ImageNet and BERT training speed. His algorithms have been widely adopted by Google, Microsoft, Intel, and NVIDIA.

Luchen Tech: Distributed software systems, large-scale AI platforms, and enterprise cloud computing solutions.

William Kwok

Founder of WhaleOps; founding team comprises multiple Apache Software Foundation Members, making it the Chinese startup with the most ASF Members.

WhaleOps: A global leading open-source DataOps service provider, enabling high-quality enterprise data flow.

Liu Zhicong

Founder of BackCloud; former Chief Engineer at Xunlei; recipient of National Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class).

BackCloud: Develops Web3 infrastructure protocols, building decentralized infrastructure ecosystems through economic models to enable true Web3 DEC App adoption.

Victor Fang

Founder & CEO of anchain.ai; previously held data science leadership roles at FireEye Mandiant, Awake Security, Greylock, Pivotal, and EMC. Holds 15 AI patents in cybersecurity and fraud detection solutions.

anchain.ai: AI-driven blockchain security, risk control, and compliance specialist.

Li Xi

Founder of MetaForce, Inc.; founding team from top industry companies with successful IPO experience and extensive Web1/2/3 product and project experience.

MetaForce, Inc.: A metaverse enterprise marketing automation platform provider, aiming to redefine NFT-based brand marketing, consumer loyalty, and brand community and participant management in Web3 scenarios.

How to Participate

In-Person:

Scan QR code to complete registration form

Confirmed registrants will be invited to discussion group

Online:

Scan QR code to register for Zoom livestream

Livestream: June 26, 14:00-17:00 PDT

Livestream: June 27, 05:00-08:00 CST

BlueRun Ventures was founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley. 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, making it one of the largest early-stage funds in China. The firm invests primarily at Pre-A and Series A stages across hard tech and innovative interaction, enterprise technology, new consumer, and healthcare, with over 150 portfolio companies including Li Auto, Waterdrop, QingCloud, Guazi.com, Qudian, Songguo Chuxing, Ganji.com, Energy Monster, Yuntu Semiconductor, Machenike, Yunsheng Intelligence, Anxin Wangdun, and BioMap.

BlueRun Ventures has been named #1 on Zero2IPO's "China Top 30 Early-Stage Investment Institutions" and #1 on ChinaVenture's "China Best Early-Stage Venture Capital Institutions Top 30," and was recognized by Preqin as a Top 10 global venture capital fund manager for sustained high returns.

Additionally, BlueRun Ventures has received consecutive honors from 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 Entrepreneur-Friendly Early-Stage Institution of the Year," and "Most Influential Early-Stage Institution of the Year."