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Founded by Peking University Alumni Born in the 1990s, DP Technology Secures Over RMB 800 Million in Series C Funding and Files for IPO

Dec 24, 2025 10:59 CST Updated 10:59
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Biotech Transformation Network: December 24, 2025, AI pharmaceutical companyDP TechnologyDP Technology Announces Completion of Series C Financing Round Exceeding 800 Million RMB. This round of financing was jointly funded by Fortune Venture Capital, Jingguorui Fund, Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Beijing Pharmaceutical and Health Industry Investment Fund, Legend Capital, Yuanhe Puhua, and other institutions. The funds will be used to attract and cultivate top talents in the industry, further iterate its "Intelligent Engine for Scientific Discovery," and accelerate market expansion and large-scale application in fundamental research, life sciences, and material sciences.
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DP Technology was founded in 2018, with its headquarters located in Beijing, as a global pioneer and leader in AI for Science.
The two founders of the company are alumni of Peking University——Zhang LinfengBorn in 1993, he hails from Fenyang, Shanxi. He was admitted to Peking University due to his participation in a physics competition and studied at Peiyuan College, where he pursued studies in physics, mathematics, and computer science simultaneously. After graduation, he furthered his education at Princeton University under the guidance of...E Weinan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an academician of the National Academy of SciencesRoberto Car。
Of the same ageSun WeijieZhang Linfeng is from Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, majored in political economy and philosophy, and continued his studies to obtain a graduate degree in education economics and management. He later worked in venture capital. It is reported that Zhang Linfeng and Sun Weijie became acquainted through sports.Teammates on the hospital basketball team and badminton team, as well as partners in the Sports Department of the Yuanpei Student Union.
In terms of company operations, Zhang Linfeng serves as the chief scientist leading technology and R&D, while Sun Weijie acts as the CEO responsible for strategy and business-related matters.
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From left to right: Sun Weijie, Zhang Linfeng. Source: LatePost
DP Technology is a national high-tech enterprise and a national specialized, refined, novel "little giant" enterprise, with research and development centers located in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The scientific research and technology team is led by an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gathering more than a hundred outstanding young scientists and engineers from various fields such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, materials, and computer science. Among them, the proportion of PhDs and postdoctoral researchers in the company exceeds 35%. Core members have won the 2020 Gordon Bell Prize, the highest award in the field of global high-performance computing, and their related work has been selected as one of the top ten scientific and technological advances in China in 2020 and one of the top ten technological breakthroughs in the global AI field.
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DP Technology·Yuzhi®Large Model System Has Been Fully Upgraded to a Scientific Discovery Intelligent Engine

Relying on the deep cultivation in the field of interdisciplinary,"DP Technology · Universe Insight"®"AI for Science Large Model System, bringing the research methods of numerous disciplines from the "experimental trial-and-error/computer" era into the "pre-trained model era," and using "micro-scale industrial design and simulation" as the entry point, has builtBohrium® Bohr®Research Space Station, Hermite® Drug Computational Design Platform, RiDYMO® Difficult-to-Drug Target R&D Platform and Piloteye®Battery design automation platforms and other scientific research and industrial R&D infrastructures have formed the "innovation-implementation" chain and open ecosystem for AI for Science, empowering "thousands of industries". It builds a new generation of industrial design and simulation systems for the most fundamental areas of human economic development: biomedicine, energy, materials, and information science and engineering research.
Source: DP Technology, LatePost

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