DeepSeek Resumes Fundraising, Pre-money Valuation 500 Billion Yuan

TechFlow news, August 05, multiple trading sources revealed that large model company DeepSeek has restarted its second round of financing. This round plans to raise 50 billion yuan, with a pre-money valuation of approximately 500 billion yuan, and plans to complete signing in late August. Multiple investors mentioned that DeepSeek's second round of financing started at least by mid-July, but suddenly paused at the end of July. At that time, some investors on the negotiation waiting list were informed that the plan to sign the financing agreement was temporarily postponed.

According to media reports on July 26, DeepSeek paused its second round of financing. One reason was that DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng was dissatisfied with widely circulated comments online, mainly surrounding the allegedly leaked "meeting transcripts for investors." DeepSeek and the investors currently at the negotiation table hope that this financing can proceed quietly after restarting. Currently, some investment institutions that were previously actively engaging stated that they have not yet received news from DeepSeek about restarting financing, and the channel remains in a suspended state. (Jin10)