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Gaoyi Venture partner Yan Wentao officially joins DeepSeek as CFO, ending the company's three-year CFO vacancy.

According to IT Home, Gaoyi Venture partner Yan Wentao officially joined DeepSeek as CFO on September 21, ending the company's three-year CFO vacancy. The report notes Yan Wentao was born in 1991, graduated from Fudan University, previously worked at Tencent Investment and H Capital, and joined Hillhouse Capital in 2020; his arrival comes as DeepSeek nears the end of its second round of financing. The article also mentions that in the past two weeks, DeepSeek screened LPs for qualification, with several LPs from state-owned capital, non-listed companies, and individuals being filtered out.

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Gaoyi Venture partner Yan Wentao officially joins DeepSeek as CFO, ending the company's three-year CFO vacancy.
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  1. 01Yan Wentao joined DeepSeek as CFO on September 21.
  2. 02Yan Wentao previously worked at Tencent Investment and H Capital, and joined Hillhouse Capital in 2020.
  3. 03DeepSeek had a three-year CFO vacancy before this appointment.
  4. 04In the past two weeks, DeepSeek conducted LP qualification screening, with several LPs filtered out.

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