Manus founder discloses financing information for the first time: two rounds of financing totaling more than $10 million

03/07 08:00

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On March 7th, news came that Manus founder and CEO Xiao Hong said in an interview with Tencent Technology that, as of now, Manus' parent company, Butterfly Effect, has completed two rounds of financing, with a total scale of over 10 million US dollars. The first round of investors was ZhenFund (ZhenFund was Xiao Hong's angel investor in his previous venture, and they invested all the money earned from Xiao Hong's previous project into this project); the second round of investors include Sequoia China, Tencent, ZhenFund, and Wang Huiwen. In 2023, under the matchmaking of investors, the company introduced core members such as Ji Yichao (former founder and CEO of PeakLabs, now Chief Scientist of ManusAI) and Zhang Tao (former product manager of Beyond Light Years, now Product Manager of ManusAI).

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