China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks

China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks

What started in mid-April as a $300m raise at a $10bn valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent talking, is now an FT-reported deal at $45bn led by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund. The strategic logic has changed substantially. There is, in venture-capital pricing, a particular kind of ascent that does not normally happen to […]

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