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Pomegra Startups
Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
Osavul (Luxembourg): Raised €8.5M from 33N Ventures, 42CAP and others for a platform that detects hybrid threats and disinformation before attacks.
CRACI (Finland) — Helsinki startup raises €1.4M pre-seed led by Lifeline Ventures to automate software supply chain compliance under the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
Cyera (Israel) raised $400M in a Series G extension from Goldman Sachs, securing the Israeli cybersecurity firm's role as a trust and security layer for AI agents across large enterprises.
Exein (Italy) — Raised $270M at a $1.7B valuation, becoming a new European cybersecurity unicorn.
Fortaegis (Netherlands) — Closes $50M Series A, embedding cryptographic keys directly into silicon hardware to eliminate static-key vulnerabilities in semiconductor devices.
Bynario (Italy) — Milan cybersecurity startup raises €2.1M pre-seed for its AI platform that automatically identifies and prioritizes software vulnerabilities for enterprise security teams.
ZeroRisk (Ireland) — Dublin-based cybersecurity startup raises $10M Series A led by MiddleGame Ventures to expand its merchant cyber-risk monitoring platform, already used by Bank of America and Checkout.com, internationally.
Pistachio (Norway) — Oslo-based AI human-risk training platform acquires Hugin.io to launch an integrated cybersecurity compliance suite for SMBs, marking its first M&A move since founding in 2023.
Cytix (UK) — Manchester cybersecurity startup raises a €6M Series A led by Northern Gritstone to police the security risks introduced by AI-accelerated software development cycles, counting KPMG and NCC Group as clients.
At-Bay (US/Israel) — Munich Re agrees to acquire Israeli-founded cyber insurtech for $575M, combining cyber insurance with continuous security monitoring for over 35,000 SMBs.
Echo acquires Minimus (US) — vulnerability-free container image startup Echo picks up the technology assets of hardened-software company Minimus after the latter winds down operations, despite having raised $51M; Echo integrates Minimus's minimal OS work to become the first distro-agnostic hardened software platform.
Cytix (UK) raises $7M Series A led by Northern Gritstone, with KPMG and NCC Group as strategic users, to police AI-generated code changes and flag the security risks introduced by accelerated software development cycles.
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