{"id":1035320,"date":"2026-09-15T07:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035320"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:29:37","slug":"chinas-deepseek-hires-dealmaker-as-cfo-ahead-of-possible-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/15\/chinas-deepseek-hires-dealmaker-as-cfo-ahead-of-possible-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s DeepSeek hires dealmaker as CFO ahead of possible IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeepSeek plans to hire Yan Wentao, a partner at venture-capital firm GL Ventures, as its first chief financial officer, two people with knowledge of the matter said, as the Chinese AI startup prepares for a potential initial public offering. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported last week that Hangzhou-based DeepSeek had hired Chinese brokerage CITIC Securities to prepare for a possible listing on \u200cShanghai&#8217;s technology-focused \u2060STAR Market. <\/p>\n<p>A \u2060CFO typically plays a central role in managing investor communications, financial controls, capital allocation and disclosure \u200bprocesses required for a listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepSeek plans to hire Yan Wentao, a partner at venture-capital firm GL Ventures, as its first chief financial officer, two people with knowledge of the matter said, as the Chinese AI startup prepares for a potential initial public offering. Reuters reported last week that Hangzhou-based DeepSeek had hired Chinese brokerage CITIC Securities to prepare for a possible listing on \u200cShanghai&#8217;s technology-focused \u2060STAR Market. A \u2060CFO typically plays a central role in managing investor communications, financial controls, capital allocation and disclosure \u200bprocesses required for a listing.<\/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-1035320","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\/1035320","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=1035320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035349,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035320\/revisions\/1035349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}