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Brian Zhan

@brianzhan1
7 posts
2025-12-30
Most VCs thought Manus at $500m was a bubble, and yet it exited at several billion. This is an insightful piece on how to pick out the moonshot companies commoditizing frontier research amidst a sea of bubbly bets.
2025-12-30 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which makes an AI agent for SMBs; Manus said earlier in December its annual revenue run rate was $125M+

Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to buy Manus, a popular Singapore-based artificial intelligence agent with Chinese roots …

Most VCs thought Manus at $500m was a bubble, and yet it exited at several billion. This is an insightful piece on how to pick out the moonshot companies commoditizing frontier research amidst a sea of bubbly bets.
2025-12-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+; Manus was raising at a $2B valuation when Meta approached it; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Meta COO Javier Olivan

The deal for more than $2 billion is one of the first in which a major U.S. tech company has bought a startup with Chinese roots

2025-09-17
Thrilled to see @DynaRobotics announce their $120M Series A. I've had the privilege of partnering with the team since the seed round, and it's been remarkable to watch their pace: • Shipped DYNA-1, the first generalized robotics foundation model • Deployed real pilots in <90 [image]
2025-09-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Dyna Robotics, which is building an AI foundation model for robotics, raised a $120M Series A led by Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital

just as we turned one year old. We're fortunate to have the backing of incredible partners. This moment in robotics feels historic: the convergence of AI breakthroughs, hardware pr...

2025-07-23
Big congratulations to @KaranVaidya6 and @GanatraSoham and the whole @Composio crew on closing a $29M round! Composio is turning “static prompts” into a living skill graph—every agent learns from every edge‑case fix, so intuition compounds across the network. This is the infra
2025-07-23 View on X
SiliconANGLE

Composio, which provides tools to help companies build AI agents, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $29M

we are responsible with our money https://x.com/... Malay Vasa / @malayvasa : Earlier this month I joined @composiohq, where we're building the skill layer for AI agents so they ca...

2025-07-17
@MishaLaskin @reflection_ai Congrats on shipping Asimov! Multi-agent design + org-wide memory will make a big difference for code comprehension, and solve the other 70% of engineering
2025-07-17 View on X
Wired

Reflection, co-founded by ex-Google researchers, unveils Asimov, an AI agent that reads a company's codebase, docs, and more to help software engineering teams

Will Knight / Wired :

Excited to see @reflection_ai ship Asimov, the code-research agent. Why it matters: - Engineers waste ~70% of their week re-reading code, not writing it. - Most AI tools chase code generation and choke on real-world repos. - Lost context = stalled roadmaps and runaway burn. [video]
2025-07-17 View on X
Wired

Reflection, co-founded by ex-Google researchers, unveils Asimov, an AI agent that reads a company's codebase, docs, and more to help software engineering teams

Will Knight / Wired :

2024-10-04
🚨Excited to share🚨 @CRV's partnership with @VoyageAI for their Series A, bringing the total funding to $28m. We're excited to be joined by @Wing_VC, @saranormous, @databricks, @SnowflakeDB, and many others. @tengyuma is solving one of the largest problems in enterprise AI. For [image]
2024-10-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M

excited to be a part of this journey! Oh, and feel free to reach out if you're interested in embeddings and retrieval. Would love to chat. Shunyu Yao / @shunyuyao12 : Congrats @ten...