Red Xiao
肖弘
Red Xiao (肖弘) is the founder of Manus, the AI agent company acquired by Meta in late 2025 for several billion dollars . He began his entrepreneurial journey in 2013 while still a student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where he built a WeChat public account tool to check Wuhan weather . His first venture, Wuhan Nightingale Technology, was founded with classmates on campus and later acquired . He subsequently co-founded The Fair (新世相) and launched Butterfly Effect (蝴蝶效应), Manus's parent company, initially aiming to build a Chinese version of Benchling before pivoting toward AI agents . ZhenFund partner Yuan Liu invested in Xiao five times across roughly a decade, beginning with a 1 million RMB check in 2015 . Elsewhere's corpus does not cover his personal background beyond these venture timelines.
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