Funding figures plunge, but there’s still progress

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Hello reader,

“Sometimes life’s a bitch and then you keep living.”

That’s from the animated series BoJack Horseman, which I finished watching for the first time a few months ago. The quote looks depressing at first, but I look at it more as a rallying cry of sorts. Life’s tough, and certainly more so in this current economic climate, but we keep going anyway, right?

And if we’re gonna keep going, we might as well give as good a go of it as we can.

This week’s funding numbers are pretty low, but in the spirit of “let’s keep going,” there are still firms locking down funding, and they come from industries as diverse as metal 3D printing and cleantech.

You can find all other important investment deals that happened in the last few days in our weekly funding news wrap-up.

Let’s dive into the biggest deals and M&As that recently took place.

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The biggest deals by country

🇮🇳 Ferty9, a hospital and healthcare company, received US$50 million in strategic investment from Verlinvest.

🇨🇳 Chamlion is a Chinese firm that provides users with one-stop metal 3D printing application solutions. It closed a US$34.7 million series B round, with investors including the likes of 3H Health Investment, Vertex Ventures, and Zhencheng Capital.

🇯🇵 Hacomono is a Japan-based SaaS platform that provides membership management, reservation, and payment systems for wellness industries such as fitness clubs and indoor golf ranges. It secured US$28.8 million in series C funding from Aozora Corporate Investment, Bank of Nagoya, and Coral Capital, among others.

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M&As

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Startups that are raising funds

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