Rumor: Hillhouse Venture Capital Partner Yan Wentao joins DeepSeek as CFO.

According to reports, on September 21, Hillhouse Venture Capital partner Yan Wentao officially joined DeepSeek and has reported to the company. His appointment ends the three-year vacancy in DeepSeek's CFO position since its founding. As early as last week, news had already spread that Yan Wentao would serve as DeepSeek's CFO. According to the report, in fact, over the past two months, several young partners from leading VC firms also competed for the CFO position at DeepSeek. Public information shows that Yan Wentao was born in 1991 and graduated from Fudan University. From 2013 to 2020, he worked at Tencent Investment and H Capital. He joined Hillhouse Venture Capital in 2020 and is a representative post-1990s investor in the industry. In 2025, he was selected for the investment community's "F40 China Young Investors" list by 36Kr.