{"id":44769,"date":"2025-09-05T06:19:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/44769\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:19:31","slug":"venture-capital-firm-lanchi-doubles-down-on-chinese-ai-robotics-start-ups-with-new-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/44769\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture capital firm Lanchi doubles down on Chinese AI, robotics start-ups with new fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese venture capital firm Lanchi Ventures is doubling down on investing in China\u2019s artificial intelligence and robotics start-ups while raising a new fund amid increased global investor appetite for the country\u2019s early-stage tech firms, its executives said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lanchi Ventures, formerly known as BlueRun Ventures China, would continue to be \u201call in\u201d on AI and robotics, focusing on AI applications, multimodal AI models and firms targeting overseas markets, managing partner Jui Tan said in an interview with the South China Morning Post last week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The firm manages over 15 billion yuan (US$2.1 billion), including a 5.5 billion yuan fund largely focused on AI. It has so far placed bets on Moonshot AI, the firm behind the Kimi large language models, AI agent maker Genspark, and robotics firms Galbot and AgiBot.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lanchi said it remained committed to investing in Chinese embodied AI start-ups because of the continuously improving abilities of robots and the abundance of applications in fields such as manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cChina has many scenarios that allow [robots] to acquire data, so I believe there isn\u2019t a significant gap compared to the United States,\u201d Tan said. \u201cIn fact, we might even perform better, possibly due to this substantial advantage in data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Terry Zhu (left) and Jui Tan, co-founders of Bluerun Ventures (now Lanchi Ventures), are pictured on July 18, 2024, at Citic Tower, Admiralty, Hong Kong. Photo: Sun Yeung\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f3411393-c574-43bb-aa70-8d2b1a62f693_2f7446b4.jpg\" title=\"Terry Zhu (left) and Jui Tan, co-founders of Bluerun Ventures (now Lanchi Ventures), are pictured on July 18, 2024, at Citic Tower, Admiralty, Hong Kong. Photo: Sun Yeung\"\/>Terry Zhu (left) and Jui Tan, co-founders of Bluerun Ventures (now Lanchi Ventures), are pictured on July 18, 2024, at Citic Tower, Admiralty, Hong Kong. Photo: Sun Yeung<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">AI is still in its early days, with many new applications and capabilities yet to emerge in the future, according to Tan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese venture capital firm Lanchi Ventures is doubling down on investing in China\u2019s artificial intelligence and robotics start-ups&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[33617,291,33619,289,290,33614,381,5214,18,33620,33615,4202,19,17,33618,33621,33616,24535,292,82,384],"class_list":{"0":"post-44769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-agibot","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-ai-agent-maker-genspark","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-bluerun-ventures-china","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-chinese","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-elissa-liu","18":"tag-galbot","19":"tag-hong-kong","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-jui-tan","23":"tag-kimi-large-language-models","24":"tag-lanchi-ventures","25":"tag-moonshot-ai","26":"tag-nvidia","27":"tag-technology","28":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}