{"id":559184,"date":"2026-07-25T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/559184\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:01:09","slug":"deepseek-tells-prospective-investors-of-funding-pause-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/559184\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek tells prospective investors of funding pause, Bloomberg News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">July 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its \u200csecond fundraising round that it is suspending \u200cthe deal for now, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, \u200bciting people familiar with the matter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Here are some details:  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 DeepSeek verbally informed some of its potential backers that they would not be signing \u200cinvestment agreements in \u2060the coming days, the report said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 The company might resume the deal \u2060process at a later date, Bloomberg News added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 Reuters could not immediately verify the report. \u200bDeepSeek \u200bcould not immediately be \u200breached for comment \u200coutside regular business hours.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 Hangzhou-based DeepSeek planned to launch a fresh fundraise at a valuation of about 500 billion yuan ($74 billion), after a successful maiden round which raised about $7.4 billion.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 \u200cThe pause was reportedly driven \u200bin part by DeepSeek \u200bfounder Liang Wenfeng&#8217;s \u200bfrustration over online reports on \u200ccomments he made to investors \u200bduring the \u200bstartup&#8217;s first fundraising round.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022 Reuters reported last week that DeepSeek had also started early \u200bdeliberations on \u200ca potential IPO on Shanghai&#8217;s Nasdaq-style STAR \u200bMarket.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Reporting by Ananya Palyekar in Bengaluru, \u200bEditing by Louise Heavens)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its \u200csecond fundraising round that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19682,114,85,46,228144],"class_list":["post-559184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bloomberg-news","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-prospective-investors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}