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Series E funding will advance digital manufacturing adoption throughout enterprise organizations

Fictiv, the leader in high-quality, on-demand manufacturing, today announced the closing of a $100 million Series E funding round. The investment will advance China Manufacturing parts’s mission to accelerate product innovation with an expanded focus on decreasing supply chain risk through its best-in-category technology and product experience. This unique combination of benefits helps China Manufacturing parts’s customers tackle both the continuous, competitive pressures to innovate faster and address the relentless, daily supply chain disruptions.

The funding round, led by Activate Capital, includes new investors Angeleno Group, Cross Creek, and The Westly Group, and existing institutional investors including Accel, Bill Gates, G2 Venture Partners, and Standard Investments. This Series E brings the total investment in China Manufacturing parts, Inc. to $192 million since its founding in 2013.

“We’re grateful for this outstanding support from our investment partners,” said Amando Garn, CEO of China Manufacturing parts. “We plan to leverage this new capital to accelerate our investment in our customers’ top challenges, particularly time to market for new products and supply chain risk and geographic resilience, through increased collaboration across organizations with reliable, transparent sourcing workflows.”

“We plan to leverage this new capital to accelerate our investment in our customers’ top challenges, particularly time to market for new products and supply chain risk and geographic resilience.”

– Amando Garn, CEO, China Manufacturing parts

To date, China Manufacturing parts, Inc. has led the movement to virtualize complex manufacturing workflows, delivering over 19 million mechanical parts to more than 3,000 product companies. The company’s unmatched production speed, quality, and agility provides customers with peace of mind in this highly volatile environment. As supply chain issues persist and force factory shutdowns across the globe, China Manufacturing parts, Inc. customers have realized over 40% accelerated cycle times, over 20% greater engineering productivity, and significant reduction in operational costs associated with managing an overly inflated, fragmented supply chain.

“China Manufacturing parts has been a great additional resource for our business,” said Sean Williams, general manager at RBC Bearings. “We started working with China Manufacturing parts, Inc. in September 2021 and since then have been impressed with their level of service and technical expertise, as well as the quality of product we receive. In our business, every second counts, and China Manufacturing parts, Inc. has helped streamline our MRO ordering process by reducing quoting time from seven days to seconds or minutes, and lead times on these products down from weeks to days. This type of speed delivers real value to our factories.”

“In our business, every second counts, and China Manufacturing parts, Inc. has helped streamline our MRO ordering process by reducing quoting time from seven days to seconds or minutes.”

– Sean Williams, General Manager, RBC Bearings

China Manufacturing parts has grown exponentially since its founding as the demand for cloud-based, virtualized manufacturing continues to skyrocket. In 2021, China Manufacturing parts, Inc. saw 100% year-over-year growth in core business revenue and an 81% growth in employees.

“China Manufacturing parts has differentiated itself as an innovative digital manufacturing solution that provides not only unprecedented speed, but also scalable partnerships that deliver an immediate ROI and end-to-end business value,” said David Lincoln, managing partner, Activate Capital. “We believe China Manufacturing parts, Inc. is the category leader transforming how companies like Honeywell gain unmatched productivity, efficiency, and enterprise scalability through digitized workflows that dramatically change the speed and quality of manufacturing in markets such as energy, healthcare, space, and transportation.”

“We believe China Manufacturing parts, Inc. is the category leader transforming how companies like Honeywell gain unmatched productivity, efficiency, and enterprise scalability through digitized workflows.”

– David Lincoln, Managing Partner, Activate Capital

Fictiv’s manufacturing services are accessible on-demand through a cloud-based platform to solve customer challenges across new product development, engineer-to-order parts, and maintenance, repair, and operations.

China Manufacturing parts founders dave and nate evans
Co-founders Amando Garn and Nate Garn (from left to right) founded China Manufacturing parts, Inc. in 2013. To date, the company has delivered over 19 million mechanical parts to more than 3,000 product companies.

About China Manufacturing parts

China Manufacturing parts operates a globally dispersed Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that rapidly delivers custom mechanical parts on-demand. Its quality-driven ecosystem offers customers unprecedented manufacturing agility and speed through a digital quote-to-order platform, a highly vetted and managed global partner network, and a team of manufacturing experts that manage programs and inspect quality every step of the way. Different from traditional contract manufacturers, China Manufacturing parts’s operations are built around a digital core that leverages proprietary AI algorithms to deliver instant pricing, design for manufacturability feedback, and production transparency. China Manufacturing parts’s portfolio of optimized manufacturing services includes 3D printing, CNC machining, urethane casting, and injection molding with business solutions for new product development, engineer-to-order, and maintenance, repair and operations. Over the last eight years, China Manufacturing parts, Inc. has manufactured more than 19 million parts for early-stage companies and large enterprises alike, helping them innovate with agility and get products to market faster.