The report stated that DeepSeek the second financing round raised 105500000000 yuan, with a valuation of approximately 615500000000 yuan
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PANews cited The Information as saying that DeepSeek the second financing round raised 105500000000 yuan, with a valuation of approximately 615500000000 yuan.
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DeepSeek Financing 105500000000 Details of the financing revealed: valuation of approximately 615500000000 yuan, with nearly 30 investors participating
PANews October 30 reported, citing The Information, that details of the DeepSeek second financing round have emerged. The round raised 105500000000 yuan CNY(approximately 15800000000 USD), attracting nearly 30 investors and implying a company valuation of approximately 615500000000 yuan. Tencent Holdings and CATL remain the two major contributors: Tencent contributed 10000000000 yuan across both rounds; CATL and its chairman Zeng Yuqun contributed 5000000000 yuan and 10000000000 yuan, respectively, across the two rounds. Industrial capital from ChangXin Memory Technologies, SMIC, vivo, Meituan, Geely Automobile, Midea Group, Luxshare Precision, Trip.com, and Xiaohongshu also participated, with some individual contributions ranging from 1000000000 to 3000000000 yuan. The participation of state-owned capital increased significantly. The China National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund contributed 1000000000 yuan again in this round, the same as in the first round. China Mobile, China Telecom, CICC, CITIC Securities, and China...
PANews said the information came from a report by The Information.
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The report claimed that DeepSeek the second financing round amounted to 105500000000 yuan CNY, approximately 15800000000 USD。
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The report claimed that the round attracted nearly 30 investors, implying a company valuation of approximately 615500000000 yuan.
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The report claimed that Tencent Holdings contributed 10000000000 yuan across both rounds.
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The report claimed that CATL and its chairman Zeng Yuqun contributed 5000000000 yuan and 10000000000 yuan, respectively, across the two rounds.
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The report listed ChangXin Memory Technologies, SMIC, vivo, Meituan, Geely Automobile, Midea Group, Luxshare Precision, Trip.com, and Xiaohongshu as participants, with some individual contributions ranging from 1000000000 to 3000000000 yuan.
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The report claimed that the China National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund contributed 1000000000 yuan again in this round, the same as in the first round.
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This is a financing report relayed by PANews. The report's core claim is that DeepSeek received a large second financing round, with multiple industrial and state-owned capital participants; however, the evidence text is not an announcement by the financing recipient, and the content is truncated at the investor list.
Why it matters to readers
If the financing size, valuation, and investor list in the report are accurate, this would be a relatively large financing transaction and would indicate participation by multiple types of industrial and state-owned capital.
Beginners should distinguish between “media relay” and an “official company announcement”: the financing amount, valuation, and contributors are currently only claims made in the report and should not be treated directly as a confirmed transaction.
Risks and unknowns
No DeepSeek or official announcements from the relevant investors were found.
The evidence text is truncated, so the complete investor list and subsequent content are unknown.
Whether the financing has been completed, the transaction terms, and the use of funds were not specified.
The contribution amounts from Tencent Holdings, CATL, and others remain to be independently confirmed.
The date in the headline does not specify a year.
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