PANews reported on June 16 that multiple investment firms have learned that DeepSeek's first round of funding is likely finalized. Founder Liang Wenfeng's personal investment is around 20 billion yuan, making him the largest single investor in this round; Tencent has contributed about 10 billion yuan; the CATL system has invested around 5 billion yuan, which includes CATL and Puxuan Capital; NetEase, JD.com, Monolith Lisi Capital, and IDG Capital have each put in about 3 billion yuan; Zhengxin Valley Investment and Shixiang Technology have each invested around 1.5 billion yuan.
