ZhenFund

“Like a16z — they provided a grant to the vLLM project back in 2023. In 2024, Sequoia and Zhenfund also donated money to us in the form of an open-source community. When we finally told them we had decided to start a company, they were quite straightforwardly ready — 'My money is already prepared. You've finally decided.'”

“Early Chinese backers of Manus—including HSG, ZhenFund, and Tencent—are planning to buy the AI agent startup back from Meta at the same $2 billion price Meta paid after Beijing ordered the company to unwind the deal.”