{"id":1021265,"date":"2026-07-16T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021265"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:32:32","slug":"chinas-deepseek-to-raise-fresh-capital-at-74-billion-valuation-ahead-of-onshore-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/chinas-deepseek-to-raise-fresh-capital-at-74-billion-valuation-ahead-of-onshore-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s DeepSeek to raise fresh capital at $74 billion valuation ahead of onshore IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese \u200bAI startup DeepSeek is planning to launch a fresh fundraising round at a valuation of about 500 \u200bbillion yuan ($74 billion) ahead of a potential mainland initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said. <\/p>\n<p>The plan comes just weeks after the Hangzhou-based company, which drew global attention with its low-cost AI models in 2025, raised about $7.4 billion in June a post-money valuation of about 450 billion yuan, the \u200cpeople said. <\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back \u2060fundraising plans \u2060underscore strong investor appetite for one of China&#8217;s most closely watched AI companies, but also point to the rising costs of competing in AI, which requires large amounts \u200bof computing power, data-centre capacity and engineering talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese \u200bAI startup DeepSeek is planning to launch a fresh fundraising round at a valuation of about 500 \u200bbillion yuan ($74 billion) ahead of a potential mainland initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The plan comes just weeks after the Hangzhou-based company, which drew global attention with its low-cost AI models in 2025, raised about $7.4 billion in June a post-money valuation of about 450 billion yuan, the \u200cpeople said. The back-to-back \u2060fundraising plans \u2060underscore strong investor appetite for one of China&#8217;s most closely watched AI companies, but also point to the rising costs of [&hellip;]<\/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-1021265","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\/1021265","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=1021265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021300,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021265\/revisions\/1021300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}