{"id":164473,"date":"2025-04-25T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/chinese-ai-startup-manus-reportedly-gets-funding-from-benchmark-at-500m-valuation-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:30:51","slug":"chinese-ai-startup-manus-reportedly-gets-funding-from-benchmark-at-500m-valuation-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/chinese-ai-startup-manus-reportedly-gets-funding-from-benchmark-at-500m-valuation-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese startup <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/09\/manus-probably-isnt-chinas-second-deepseek-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manus AI<\/a>, which works on building tools related to AI agents, has picked up $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a roughly $500 million valuation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-04-25\/chinese-ai-startup-manus-scores-funding-at-500-million-value\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company will use the money to expand to new markets, including the U.S., Japan, and the Middle East, Bloomberg noted, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bloomberg\u2019s report suggests that the fresh round has quintupled the valuation of Manus, which previously raised somewhere north of $10 million from backers including Tencent and HSG (formerly Sequoia China). <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manus came into the spotlight in March when the company launched <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/09\/manus-probably-isnt-chinas-second-deepseek-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a demo of a general AI agent<\/a> that could complete various tasks. (In TechCrunch\u2019s testing, it didn\u2019t work quite as well as advertised.) The company later launched <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/31\/manus-launches-paid-subscription-plans-and-a-mobile-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid subscription plans<\/a> costing between $39 per month and $199 per month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/25\/chinese-ai-startup-manus-reportedly-gets-funding-from-benchmark-at-500m-valuation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, has picked up $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a roughly $500 million valuation, according to Bloomberg. The company will use the money to expand to new markets, including the U.S., Japan, and the Middle East, Bloomberg noted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-164473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}