In DeepSeek's first round of funding, founder Wenfeng Liang contributed $20 billion, making him the largest single contributor.

According to DeepTech Beat monitoring, in the first round of financing of the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, approximately 51 billion yuan (about $7.5 billion) was raised. Founder Wenfeng Liang contributed about 20 billion yuan, accounting for nearly 40% of the total investment amount, making him the largest single contributor in this round of financing.

Among external investing institutions, Tencent invested about 10 billion yuan, and the CATL ecosystem (including CATL and Puxuan Capital) invested about 5 billion yuan. Netease, JD.com, Monolith Deliberate Capital, and IDG Capital each invested about 3 billion yuan. True Valley Investment and Tusk Technologies each invested about 1.5 billion yuan. The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund invested about 980 million yuan.

After the financing, DeepSeek's post-investment valuation is close to 400 billion yuan (about $58 billion).