DeepSeek has verbally informed some potential investors that it has decided to temporarily suspend
the second round of financing, which was originally planned to have a valuation of about 500 billion RMB. The suspension is partly due to the founder Liang Wenfeng being dissatisfied with remarks circulating online about communications with investors during the first round of financing. The company does not rule out restarting financing in the future; the first round of financing had previously raised about 7.4 billion USD.
IT之家:https://www.ithome.com/ 7 月 26 日消息,彭博社周六援引知情人士消息报道称,DeepSeek(深度求索)已通知第二轮融资的部分潜在投资者,决定暂时中止本轮融资交易,相关融资计划已按下暂停键。
报道称,DeepSeek 已口头告知部分潜在投资者,未来几天不会签署投资协议。知情人士表示,DeepSeek 不排除未来重新启动本轮融资流程的可能。
DeepSeek 原计划启动新一轮融资,公司估值约为 5000 亿元人民币。此前,公司已顺利完成首轮融资,融资金额约 74 亿美元。
报道称,此次暂停融资的部分原因,在于 DeepSeek 创始人梁文锋对网络上传播的一些消息感到不满,这些消息涉及他在公司首轮融资期间与投资者交流时发表的相关言论。
IT之家注意到,路透社上周还报道称,DeepSeek 已开始初步研究在科创板上市(IPO)的可行性。
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