So it is under six weeks to Christmas AND as an early Christmas present we have another edition of FUNDED covering October 2022. Just like Techboard reported in September, October has seen a big jump in private funding. For October we captured $661m from 99 announced deals up from $498.3m from 52 deals for September. This is the second month in a row which appears to suggest we are seeing a recovery in funding levels, with monthly funding in both dollars and deals reaching levels near the beginning of the last major growth phase we experienced in early to mid 2021 (see chart below). Taking into account all funding types we captured 146 completed funding events totalling $890m and another 25 open and future funding events.