Founder of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence company based in Hangzhou.
Liang Wenfeng is Founder of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence company based in Hangzhou, founded in 2023. DeepSeek's most recent disclosed round was a First external round of ~$7.4B in 2026.
DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company developing open-weight large language models. Backed by quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, it gained international attention for releasing frontier-class reasoning models trained at substantially lower reported cost than comparable Western systems.
Reported by Bloomberg to be close to raising at least 80 billion yuan, about $12 billion, with Tencent and CATL among the largest backers, at a target valuation near $75 billion, as pre-IPO capital for a listing in early 2027. Not confirmed by the companies.
Liang Wenfeng is the Founder of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence company based in Hangzhou, founded in 2023.
StartupFox's company records list Liang Wenfeng as Founder of DeepSeek.
DeepSeek is headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
StartupFox has published 2 stories naming Liang Wenfeng; the most recent is “DeepSeek Is Reportedly Raising $12 Billion From Tencent, CATL And State-Linked Funds”.
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