Tencent Heavily Invests in an IPO
"Tencent-Backed DPU Unicorn Leopard Cloud Intelligence Files for IPO on Shenzhen's ChiNext Board"
Leopard Cloud Intelligence, a Shenzhen-based developer of Data Processing Unit (DPU) chips, has officially applied for an IPO on the ChiNext Board, aiming to become China's first publicly listed DPU company.
Founded in August 2020 by Dr. Xiaoyang Xiao, a Stanford PhD graduate and serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded chip company RMI (acquired by Broadcom), the company focuses on the high-growth DPU sector. Its development accelerated following NVIDIA's formal introduction of the DPU concept in late 2020.
The company has developed China's first high-performance, general-purpose programmable DPU SoC chip, boasting 400Gbps network bandwidth and claiming significant performance improvements and power savings over traditional solutions.
Financially, Leopard Cloud's revenue grew exponentially from RMB 170,000 in 2023 to RMB 370 million in 2025, yet it remains unprofitable with substantial net losses. Its IPO application utilizes ChiNext's recently introduced fourth set of listing standards, which emphasize R&D and market valuation over short-term profitability.
Tencent is the company's most significant backer and largest shareholder, holding a 19.78% stake after participating in multiple funding rounds. Other prominent investors include Sequoia Capital China, Shenzhen Capital Group, Five Dimensions Capital, and various government-guided funds from Shenzhen and Hangzhou. Pre-IPO, the company was valued at over RMB 14 billion.
This listing is seen as a milestone for Shenzhen's semiconductor industry, complementing the recent successful IPO review of Yuexin Semiconductor (a Guangzhou-based wafer manufacturer) and signaling a wave of high-end hardware technology companies from the Greater Bay Area going public on the ChiNext Board.
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