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DeepSeek

DeepSeek

Private
HangzhouAI, Data & Cloud Infrastructurehttps://deepseek.com/

Last Round

Series B

Aug 1, 2026

Est. Valuation

$82B

Total Funding Raised

$15.17B

Momentum

Top 1%

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Company Overview

DeepSeek is an artificial intelligence company that develops and operates large language models and multimodal AI technologies.

Sector

AI, Data & Cloud Infrastructure

Verticals

NLP & Conversational AI, AI Training Infrastructure, Computing Hardware, ML Platforms

Business Model

B2B

Customer Profile

Usage-Based SaaS

AI Layer

Foundation

Keywords

large language modelLLMfrontier ai labcode generationvibe codingfoundation modelreasoning modelai apiopen weightsai hardwareai infrastructurenatural language processingNLPusage-based billingai chatbot

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DeepSeek Funding Rounds

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Data table
RoundDateAmount RaisedValuationInvestorsSources
Series BAug 1, 2026
VC RoundJul 1, 2026
Series AJun 1, 2026
Series AMay 1, 2026
Corporate FundingJul 17, 2023

Key People

Founding team and executive leadership

Brayden Dowling

Deputy CEO

Executive Team

Ryan Azhari

Chief Executive Officer

Executive Team

DeepSeek Investors

Notable investors and investment history

DeepSeek investors
InvestorRounds
Loyal Valley CapitalSeries A, Series B
IDG CapitalSeries A, Series B
High-Flyer Quantitative Investment ManagementSeries A, Corporate Funding
Shixiang TechnologySeries A
Monolith ManagementSeries A, Series B
Guozhi Investment (Shanghai) Private Equity Fund ManagementSeries A

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  • Aug 3, 2026

    Open roles increased to 75, representing 41% of headcount.

  • Aug 1, 2026

    $8.0B round with participation from JD.com, Inc.

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Firmographic Details

HeadquartersHangzhou
Employee Range182
Year Founded2023
Last FundingAug 1, 2026

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