{"id":25185,"date":"2026-07-26T18:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=25185"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:36:50","slug":"deepseek-tells-prospective-investors-of-funding-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=25185","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek tells prospective investors of funding pause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective \u200binvestors in its second fundraising round that \u200cit is suspending the deal for now, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar \u200bwith the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeepSeek \u200bverbally informed some of its potential backers \u2060that they would not be signing \u200binvestment agreements in the coming days, the report \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company might resume the deal process at a later date, Bloomberg News added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters could not \u200bimmediately verify the report. DeepSeek could not \u200bimmediately be reached for comment outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hangzhou-based \u200cDeepSeek \u2060planned to launch a fresh fundraise at a valuation of about 500 billion yuan ($74 billion), after a successful maiden round which \u200braised about $7.4 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u200bpause \u2060was reportedly driven in part by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng\u2019s frustration \u200bover online reports on comments he \u200bmade \u2060to investors during the startup\u2019s first fundraising round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters reported last week that DeepSeek had \u2060also \u200bstarted early deliberations on \u200ba potential IPO on Shanghai\u2019s Nasdaq-style STAR Market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective \u200binvestors in its second fundraising round that \u200cit is suspending the deal for now, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar \u200bwith the matter. DeepSeek \u200bverbally informed some of its potential backers \u2060that they would not be signing \u200binvestment agreements in the coming days, the report \u200bsaid. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440","service":"facebook","timestamp":1785073038,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25187,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25185\/revisions\/25187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}