Big round · 8 October 2026

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Manus / Butterfly Effect raises $500M growth round led by IDG Capital

By Millionrounds ResearchPublished 9 October 2026

Manus / Butterfly Effect, based in Singapore, has raised $500M in a growth round led by IDG Capital and Boyu Capital, announced on 8 October 2026. 4 other investors joined. It is the 98th largest equity round we recorded in the twelve months to that date, and the 45th largest growth round of 254. The median growth round over the same period was $125M, so this one is 4.0 times that.

Raised$500M4 sources reported it
StageGrowthfirst round on record
Investors62 named as lead
Where SGSingapore

AIRobotics

How big is it?

Against every equity round we recorded in the twelve months to 8 October 2026. Ranks count companies, so the same raise reported twice is counted once.

#98equity round of the last twelve months
#45growth round of 254 in that time
#2round in Singapore, of 22
This round$500M
Median growth round$125M

4.0 times the median growth round of the last twelve months.

Who invested

Also in the round

Funding history

  1. October 2026Growth$500M

This is the first round we hold for the company.

Reported by

  1. Firms' own news pages
  2. Silicon Angle8 October
  3. TechNode8 October
  4. TechStartups8 October

The round's figures come from these reports; each link opens the original.

Other big rounds that week

TypeSafe AI$870M Series AOxide$445M Series DVEIR$110M Series CDeepSeek$15B Series BOratomic$475M Series BArena$200M Series B
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