{"id":1041996,"date":"2026-10-09T08:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041996"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:13:19","slug":"manus-raises-more-than-500-million-after-meta-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/manus-raises-more-than-500-million-after-meta-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Manus raises more than $500 million after Meta exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Butterfly Effect, the parent company of AI startup Manus, said on Thursday it completed a funding round of more than $500 million as the firm resumed independent operations after unwinding Meta&#8217;s $2 billion-plus acquisition. <\/p>\n<p>The round was co-led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with existing investors Tencent, Sequoia China and ZhenFund also participating. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some details:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butterfly Effect, the parent company of AI startup Manus, said on Thursday it completed a funding round of more than $500 million as the firm resumed independent operations after unwinding Meta&#8217;s $2 billion-plus acquisition. The round was co-led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with existing investors Tencent, Sequoia China and ZhenFund also participating. Here are some details:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042021,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041996\/revisions\/1042021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}