--- title: DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO description: DeepSeek, the Chinese LLM developer, is reportedly in talks to raise $1.5 billion at a $71 billion valuation and is targeting a 2027 IPO, potentially as early... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/deepseek-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-1-5b-then-ipo-odv5oswpk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO | daily.dev og:description: DeepSeek, the Chinese LLM developer, is reportedly in talks to raise $1.5 billion at a $71 billion valuation and is targeting a 2027 IPO, potentially as early... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/deepseek-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-1-5b-then-ipo-odv5oswpk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Odv5osWPk.png og:image:alt: DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DeepSeek, the Chinese LLM developer, is reportedly in talks to raise $1.5 billion at a $71 billion valuation and is targeting a 2027 IPO, potentially as early as late this year. This follows a $7 billion funding round just a month prior at a $50 billion valuation. DeepSeek has grown rapidly, accounting for nearly 23% of enterprise AI gateway tokens on Vercel in June. The company's cloud service runs on Huawei chips, and investors include Tencent and Beijing's National AI Industry Investment Fund. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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