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Pomegra Startups
Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
Refinyx (Sweden) — Critical battery materials recovery startup emerged from stealth after acquiring Northvolt's 134-patent recycling technology portfolio and pilot facility.
Tavion (Poland) — Raised €45M in combined equity and debt to develop three utility-scale battery park energy storage projects.
Spiro (Africa) — Received an additional $18M debt tranche from the Africa Go Green Fund to scale EV motorcycle battery-swap infrastructure in Uganda and Rwanda.
Amber Electric (Australia) — Raised A$209M Series E from Morgan Stanley's 1GT and E.ON for its consumer and commercial energy flexibility platform.
Metris Energy (UK) — Raised $5M seed from PT1 Ventures and Octopus Ventures for its AI platform managing solar energy assets.
Isometric (UK) — Raised €43M Series A for its platform that verifies and certifies carbon removal in the climate tech space.
WINT Water Intelligence (Israel) — AI water-tech company raises $36M Series D co-led by LIP Ventures and Inven Capital to scale its leak-detection platform globally after saving 1.15 billion gallons across 600 enterprise customers.
Odyssey Energy Solutions (US) — Digital platform connecting solar installers with suppliers and financiers raises $74M from Union Square Ventures, MCJ Capital, and others to accelerate clean-energy project delivery.
Nexeon (UK) — Oxfordshire battery-materials startup closes £100M backed by the UK National Wealth Fund, Korea Development Bank, and Honda Xcelerator to scale its silicon anode material that replaces graphite and increases energy density in EV and wearable batteries.
Light (US/Houston) raises $46M Series A led by Matrix; white-label embedded electricity infrastructure that lets solar installers and energy companies launch branded retail electricity plans — every new Texas electricity brand in H1 2026 launched on Light's platform.
Certain Energy (UK) — Long-duration grid storage startup raises £10M Series A to scale its manganese flow battery technology for multi-hour energy storage alongside renewable generation.
Apollo Atomics (US) — MIT spinoff raises $31M seed led by FCVC and Y Combinator to factory-manufacture compact nuclear reactors 40x smaller than traditional designs, targeting AI data centers.
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