Manus founder reveals financing information for the first time: a total of over 10 million USD raised in two rounds of financing
ChainCatcher news, Manus founder and CEO Xiao Hong stated in an interview with Tencent Technology that as of now, Manus's parent company Butterfly Effect has completed two rounds of financing, with a total scale exceeding 10 million USD. The first round of investors was ZhenFund (ZhenFund was Xiao Hong's angel investor in his previous venture, and they invested all the funds earned from Xiao Hong's last project into this project); the second round of investors includes Sequoia China, Tencent, ZhenFund, and Wang Huiwen.
In 2023, under the facilitation of investors, the company brought in core members such as Ji Yichao (former founder and CEO of Peak Labs, now Chief Scientist of Manus AI) and Zhang Tao (former product head of Beyond Lightyears, now product head of Manus AI).