- IPOUSD 1.2B — Issue Price: RMB 114.28; Listing Market Cap: First day opening price RMB 650.00/share, opening market cap exceeded RMB 300B; Number of Shares Issued: 70,000,000 shares; Lock-up Period: Controlling shareholders and core investors locked up according to STAR Market standards (sponsor institution follow-on investment locked for 24 months) | Source: Prospectus/Exchange Disclosure
- Pre-IPO Secondary Share TransferUndisclosed — Amount: ByteDance ¥227M / Haisong ¥200M / Hongtai ¥60M etc.; —; Post-money valuation: ¥29.8B; Led by Shenzhen Venture Capital / Turing Asset / Thick Snow Capital (Transferees) | The company has initiated IPO tutoring, but old share transfers have not stopped—transferees took over at a ¥29.8B valuation, 21% higher than the ¥24.6B in the Pre-IPO round. Simultaneously, three early institutions chose to cash out and exit: Quantum Leap (ByteDance) transferred for ¥227M to Wenzhou Dianfan, Haisong Capital transferred for ¥200M to Wenzhou Kexin, and Hongtai Fund exited in two tranches of ¥30M each. 'New money entering at a higher valuation while old money exits on the eve of IPO' occurring simultaneously is the most notable structure of this round. | Source: Moore Threads IPO Prospectus
- Pre-IPO RoundUSD 700M — Amount: >¥5B; approx. $700M; Post-money valuation: Pre-money ¥24.6B (some channels note 'nearly ¥30B', see valuation basis notes); Led by: Qianhai Mother Fund, Hengxing Group, BAIC Capital, etc., totaling 38 entities | The final pre-IPO round saw 38 entities entering simultaneously at a valuation of ¥24.6B. The most distinctive feature of this round was the loan-equity linkage: Bank of Beijing provided hundreds of millions in credit for second-generation chip tape-out using first-loan interest subsidy policies; China Construction Bank led a syndicate providing hundreds of millions in working capital loans for the domestic 10k-card compute cluster project; ABC Investment injected ¥100M in long-term capital via an equity fund. Thus, in the Pre-IPO stage, debt capital provided by the banking system was nearly equal in scale to equity financing—a typical financing structure for asset-heavy chip companies. | Source: Moore Threads Prospectus
- Series B++ RoundUndisclosed — Amount: Not separately disclosed; —; Post-money valuation: RMB 24B; Led by: Zhonghe Capital / Source Code Capital | Valuation of RMB 24B is only 6.7% higher than the pre-B round valuation of RMB 22.5B—the smallest valuation increase in Moore Threads' financing history. The timing is key: In October 2023, the company was added to the US Entity List. The IPO prospectus describes the consequences with restraint: certain restrictions on procuring US-produced raw materials and using intellectual property and R&D tools containing US technology. However, after that, the company accelerated, advancing its architecture at a pace of one generation per year. | Source: Moore Threads Prospectus
- Series B RoundUSD 220M — Amount: ¥1.5B; approx. $220M; Post-money valuation: Pre-money ¥22.5B; Led by China Mobile / Dianshi Capital | China Mobile's entry is the most significant signal of this round—telecom operators act as both investors and customers, with GPUs ultimately destined for operator and internet company intelligent computing centers. The pre-money valuation jumped from ¥11.9B post-Series A to ¥22.5B, nearly doubling in one year. Beiyin Wealth Management participated additionally via private equity investment in 2023, representing an early case of bank wealth management funds entering the primary market for hard tech. | Source: Moore Threads IPO Prospectus
- Series A RoundUSD 310M — Amount: ¥2B; approx. USD 310M; post-money valuation: ¥11.9B; led by Shanghai Guosheng Capital / 5Y Capital / Bohai Zhongsheng Fund (under Bank of China International). Post-money valuation of ¥11.9B officially crossed into the ¥10B+ unicorn tier. The structural change in this round is obvious: lead investors shifted from market-oriented VCs (Sequoia, GGV) to state-owned platforms + broker-affiliated funds (Shanghai Guosheng, BOI-affiliated funds, CCB International, China Merchants Securities). In a long-cycle, asset-heavy sector like GPU with high sanction risks, market-oriented VCs have limited risk tolerance, making state-owned and broker-affiliated capital the main force. Source: Moore Threads Prospectus
- Pre-Series A RoundUndisclosed — Amount: Not separately disclosed; —; Post-money valuation: Pre-money RMB 3.7B (some channels record RMB 4.5B, see metric explanation); Led by Sequoia China / Shenzhen Capital Group / GGV (co-led). Two details are noteworthy: First, Sequoia returned the favor — Pony.ai introduced Sequoia during the Pre-A round, so Sequoia transferred some shares to Pony.ai at the angel round price in February 2021; Yancheng Baiyang, controlled by Pony.ai (Pony.ai holds 61%), held 0.4661% pre-IPO. Second, ByteDance entered via Quantum Leap, being the only party among these financial investors with real compute procurement needs. | Source: Moore Threads prospectus
- Angel RoundUndisclosed — Amount: Not separately disclosed; —; post-money valuation: pre-money ¥1.4B; led by 5Y Capital / Sequoia China. Only three months after the first capital increase, valuation jumped from ¥10M to ¥1.4B (140x), yet the company was less than six months old with no chip tape-outs. Investors bought into Zhang Jianzhong himself—he worked at NVIDIA for 14 years as General Manager for China; co-founders Zhou Yuan (Senior Director of Market Ecosystem at NVIDIA), Zhang Yubo (GPU Architect), and Wang Dong (Sales Director) also came from NVIDIA, with three out of seven board members having NVIDIA backgrounds. Heerta was the only industrial player in this round (a Shenzhen-listed company, hit daily limit up on Dec 4). Source: Moore Threads Prospectus
- First Capital IncreaseUSD 0M — Amount: ¥1.9M (Peixian Qianyao); approx. $280K; Post-money valuation: Pre-money ¥10M (¥1/share); Led by Peixian Qianyao | The most extreme return in China's GPU investment history. Peixian Qianyao received a preferential entry ticket at ¥1/share with a pre-money valuation of ¥10M for introducing Shenzhen Minghao's large investment to Moore Threads, investing only ¥1.9M. Based on the post-IPO market cap of ¥280B, this stake is worth over ¥10B, yielding a return of approximately 5,600x. Such 'referral reward shares' are common in early-stage hard tech but rarely realize returns of this magnitude. Shenzhen Minghao entered at a pre-money valuation of ¥420M, becoming the first institution to pay a 'normal price'. | Source: Moore Threads IPO Prospectus
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