It’s Q4, how are you doing?

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Hello reader,

World Mental Health Day is on October 10, so amid all the funding deals and dramatic news (looking at you, OpenAI), I wanted to remind everyone to check in with themselves.

It’s been an extremely exciting year for me, personally and professionally, and I’m grateful for all the opportunities that have come my way. But as we enter the final quarter of 2024, I can’t deny that I’m feeling both mental and physical fatigue.

While I think it’s perfectly normal to feel like this toward the end of the year, we should be a little kinder and more compassionate with ourselves.

One of this week’s Thoughtful Tidbits provides a self-care checklist, so if you didn’t know where to begin, hopefully that can help.

Let’s finish the year strong, not just in our work but also in ourselves.

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

Now join me as I dive into the biggest deals and M&As that recently took place.

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The biggest deals by country

🇨🇳 Aosong Electronics, also known as Asair, is a Chinese firm that specializes in chip, wafer, and module design and production for a variety of applications. It has closed a US$98.6 million series D funding round with Chongqing Industrial Investment Fund, Chongqing Technology Holdings, and Youbo Capital as the participating investors.

🇯🇵 Infcurion is a Japanese company that develops business planning and consulting for the fintech industry. It has received US$70 million in strategic funding from Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group.

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M&As

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Startups that are raising funds

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Behind the Glasswall

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Exclusive listicles

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Thoughtful Tidbits