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Almost every macro question - inflation, recession, stagflation, central bank policy - comes back to two curves and where they cross. A short walkthrough of aggregate demand (consumption, investment, government, net exports), the short-run and long-run aggregate supply curves, what happens when each one shifts, and why central banks spend most of their attention managing AD.

Serval, an AI enterprise service management platform challenging ServiceNow, raised a $150M Series C led by Sequoia at a $3B valuation.

How fast a dollar moves through the economy is as important as how many dollars exist. A short walkthrough of the velocity equation (nominal GDP divided by money supply), why velocity rises when confidence is high and collapses in crises, and why a doubling of the money supply during 2008–2015 quantitative easing produced almost no inflation - because velocity fell faster than the supply grew.

Bedrock Robotics, a construction robotics startup, raised a $600M Series C.

Borrowing fuels expansion. Paying it back drags it. A short walkthrough of leverage as debt relative to income, the four ways an economy can deleverage (income, asset sales, default, inflation), why the process is inherently deflationary, and why the 2008 cleanup took more than seven years even with massive government intervention to soften it.

Legora, a European legal AI startup, raised a €489M round.

Flapping Airplanes, a one-year-old AI startup, raised a $1B Series A.

Rivercell (France) came out of stealth with €22M for AI-powered drug discovery infrastructure.

Matters (Sweden) came out of stealth with $5M pre-seed to build an AI-native consumer bank.

Vessla (Stockholm) came out of stealth with $3.3M for AI agents in property management.

Deleveraging is hard. Deflationary deleveraging is the worst version of it - a self-reinforcing loop where falling prices make existing debt heavier, forcing more cuts, which push prices down further. A short walkthrough of why fixed-nominal debt is poison in a deflationary environment, why savers win and debtors lose, and why Japan spent two full decades trying to climb out of one of these.

The crude oil price surged as Brent settled at $117.64, a six-month high, after Iran's Revolutionary Guard said four tankers hit mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

Mave (Israel), a cybersecurity startup, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot Capital Partners.

Bites raised a $40M Series A to bring AI training to frontline workers.

Replit is acquiring Chroma, the company behind the open-source vector database ChromaDB.

Beacon Holdings (Toronto) acquired Ganaz, a Seattle payroll and HR software startup for agricultural workers.

Transpharmation (UK) acquired OrganoTherapeutics, a Luxembourg startup building patient-derived brain organoid models.

Most deleveragings are ugly. A small number are something Ray Dalio calls 'beautiful' - debt burdens fall, growth keeps running, employment holds, and inflation stays moderate. A short walkthrough of the four simultaneous policy moves required to engineer one (austerity, restructuring, monetary easing, fiscal support), why the composition of demand has to shift while the level holds, and the rare historical cases where it actually worked.

Pomegra's April 2026 weekly insights video on the accelerating AI arms race - model launches, hyperscaler capex, sovereign AI initiatives, and what each shift means for portfolios and the broader market.

Fragment came out of stealth with $56M, with 8VC leading the Series A and General Catalyst and A* co-leading the seed. Its AI agents resolve procurement and payment exceptions at large manufacturers.

Israel's final count gives Netanyahu's bloc 53 seats and the opposition 48, leaving both short of 61 as President Herzog urges leaders to avoid a repeat vote.