{"id":1015021,"date":"2026-06-17T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015021"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:13:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:43:36","slug":"chinas-deepseek-closes-record-7-billion-plus-funding-with-unusual-deal-structure-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/chinas-deepseek-closes-record-7-billion-plus-funding-with-unusual-deal-structure-report\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s DeepSeek closes record $7 billion-plus funding with unusual deal structure: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.40 billion) at a valuation exceeding $50 billion in its first funding round, using a structure designed to preserve founder \u200ccontrol, the \u2060Information reported \u2060on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The funding required investors to put their \u200bcapital into a limited partnership managed by DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng \u200brather than into DeepSeek itself, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify the report. DeepSeek could not \u200bimmediately be reached for \u2060comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.40 billion) at a valuation exceeding $50 billion in its first funding round, using a structure designed to preserve founder \u200ccontrol, the \u2060Information reported \u2060on Tuesday. The funding required investors to put their \u200bcapital into a limited partnership managed by DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng \u200brather than into DeepSeek itself, the report said. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. DeepSeek could not \u200bimmediately be reached for \u2060comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015049,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015021\/revisions\/1015049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}