About Blueprint Ventures
Blueprint Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2016. It is primarily based out of Beijing, China. As of Nov 2024, Blueprint Ventures has invested in 19 companies. It primarily invests in Series B round in China based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Environment Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Jsmohai Overall, Blueprint Ventures portfolio has seen 2 IPOs, namely Guangzhou Frans and Chuanzhi Podcast. A lot of funds co-invest with Blueprint Ventures, with names like Shunwei Capital sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Blueprint Ventures has team of 11 people including 3 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series B, Series C & 2 more
Portfolio IPOs
Blueprint Ventures' List of Top Investments
Blueprint Ventures has a portfolio of 19 companies. Their most notable investments are in Jinda Nano Technology and Boya Juli New Material Technology.Their portfolio spans across China and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Environment Tech and 19 other sectors, across stages such as Series B, Series C and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Blueprint Ventures:1. Flipboard
Web and Mobile-based platform for content curation. It connects publishers and creators with audiences worldwide, allowing users to engage with quality content and share inspiring stories. It curates and aggregates web links from content websites ranging from food, style, fashion and health to business, technology, architecture, humour, autos, photography and displays the content in magazine form. Has launched private magazines for groups.
Key facts about Flipboard
- Founded Year: 2010
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $236M
- Employee Count: 130 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: K2 Global, Goldman Sachs and 19 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Jun 17, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Lockin
Provider of smart lock & security system installation services. It offers a wireless smart lockbox for house keys that can be controlled through the Lockin Home app. It can be locked and unlocked through multiple ways, including bluetooth, pin codes, and passwords.
Key facts about Lockin
3. Yeelight
Provider of app-based internet-connected smart bulbs. The lamp is a zero-configuration, plug-and-play, color LED energy-saving light bulb that connects to the wireless Wi-Fi network control and works on multi-platform smartphone applications, and can be controlled remotely as well. Its app is available for Android devices.
Key facts about Yeelight
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Qingdao (China)
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $47.1M
- Employee Count: 25 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Yunfeng Capital, Cathay Capital and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Dec 29, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Xiangji offers a big data platform to analyze and process data. The platform allows users to collect data, process, analyze and visualize data to capture actionable insights from the real-time data. It enables businesses to store data, build reports and extract data from the cloud with the help of queries. It also provides solutions to import and export data, clean and transfer data.
Key facts about Xiangji Technology
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Beijing (China)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $17.8M
- Employee Count: 8 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Blueprint Ventures, Zhen Fund and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Apr 09, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Xyb2b
Xyb2b is a B2B cross-border marketplace for maternity, beauty, food products and other fashion accessories. Has more than 4000 SKUs on the platform. Raised 15 million yuan from Eastern bell ventures. Has its own quality checking points in Australia, Europe, Japan and South Korea before shipping the products to China.
Key facts about Xyb2b
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Shenzhen (China)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $149M
- Investors: Matrix Partners China, Blueprint Ventures and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, May 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Blueprint Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Blueprint Ventures has invested in 19 companies over the last 9 years, with an average of 0 new investment annually in the last 5 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Jsmohai and most recent follow-on round was in Tikin Media.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2019 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Blueprint Ventures' Investments by Stage
Blueprint Ventures has made 6 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $39.1M, 3 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $34.9M, 1 investment in Seed stage with an average round size of $140K and 1 investment in Series A stage.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series B | 6 |
Series C | 3 |
Seed | 1 |
Series A | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Blueprint Ventures' Investments by Sector
Blueprint Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Business Services, Consumer, Enterprise Applications and Environment Tech. Notably, it has invested in 11 Tech companies, 9 Consumer (B2C) companies, 8 Software companies and at least 7 companies focusing on Enterprise (B2B).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
High Tech | 4 |
Business Services | 2 |
Consumer | 2 |
Enterprise Applications | 2 |
Environment Tech | 2 |
Others | 16 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Blueprint Ventures' Investments by Geography
Blueprint Ventures has made most investments in China (10).Blueprint Ventures' recent investments
Blueprint Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Blueprint Ventures:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 08, 2024 | - | Seed | 7066 | - | |
Mar 11, 2024 | China | Series A | 5641 | ||
Oct 12, 2021 | China | Series B | 9177 | [+1] | |
Dec 31, 2019 | China | Series B | 7477 | [+1] | |
Oct 29, 2019 | China | Series B | 9208 | [+7] |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Blueprint Ventures' Portfolio
2 of Blueprint Ventures' portfolio companies have become public. Guangzhou Frans got listed on the Hong Kong Exchanges (HKG), in Nov 2023 at marketcap of $11.7B and Chuanzhi Podcast got listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) at marketcap of $526M.Here are Blueprint Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 10, 2023 | - | - | 5944 | |
Jan 12, 2021 | - | - | 1423 |
Team profile of Blueprint Ventures
Blueprint Ventures has a team of 11 members including 3 Partners and 1 Principal. Blueprint Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in Blueprint Ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | - | - | - | |
Partner | - | - | - | |
Partner | - | - | - | |
Principal | - | - | - |
Co-investors of Blueprint Ventures
Over the past 9 years, 68 investors have co-invested in Blueprint Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Blueprint Ventures: Baidu Venture Capital, Zhen Fund and 25 others have invested in rounds before Blueprint Ventures. There are 2 companies where Baidu Venture Capital has invested before Blueprint Ventures and 2 companies where Zhen Fund has invested before Blueprint Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Blueprint Ventures: 25 investors entered a company along with Blueprint Ventures. These include investors like Shunwei Capital (2 companies).
- Invested after Blueprint Ventures: A total of 16 investors have invested in Blueprint Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Lukemeditech (1 company), Renzhi capital (1 company) and Chongqing Tongliang Capital (1 company).
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