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Pomegra Startups
Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
Breedr (UK/US) — Livestock management platform raises $27M Series B led by Partech's impact fund to digitize the global beef supply chain, with 2M cattle already tracked on the platform.
Emerald AI (US) — Raises $150M Series A at $1.05B valuation, co-led by Energize Capital and DCVC, to deploy software that turns AI data centers into flexible power-grid assets, targeting 100+ GW of untapped US grid capacity.
Instinct (US) — 23-year-old founder Noah Shinn's AI personal assistant raises $350M total ($250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark) at a $2.5B valuation, just four months after founding.
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face (France/US) for $12.9B, bringing the leading open-source AI model hub under Nvidia's umbrella and extending its reach beyond chips into the software and model ecosystem.
Gravis Robotics aside, SiteVue AI (US) closes a $7.5M seed co-led by Penny Jar Capital and Overture to deploy fixed and wearable AI vision cameras on factory floors that detect cycle-time bottlenecks, defects, near-misses, and PPE violations in real time.
Hike Medical (US) raises $22.5M in combined seed and Series A to automate the entire medical device supply chain for orthotics, prosthetics, and durable equipment from physician referral to patient delivery.
Transfyr (US) launches from stealth with a $25M seed led by General Catalyst and Lux Capital to build a physical AI observability layer for laboratories — capturing what scientists actually do but never write down, using sensors and multimodal AI.
Arrakis (UK) — exits stealth with $38M from Blossom Capital and Accel, with the Datadog CEO and an OpenAI executive joining the round, to deploy autonomous AI agents for industrial workers in energy, aerospace, and logistics.
Outer Bio (US) — Lady Gaga co-founded biotech exits stealth with $23M, keeping donated human skin alive for four weeks to train AI models on tissue aging and screen 750M compounds annually for skin longevity.
Stability AI (UK) — raises $76M Series B backed by Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Warner Music Group, and Electronic Arts to expand its creative AI production suite.
Gatik (US/Canada) — raises $200M Series D led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies to scale its driverless middle-mile freight fleet serving Walmart, Kroger, and PepsiCo.
1X Technologies (Norway) — SoftBank is in talks to acquire a majority stake in the OpenAI-backed humanoid robot maker at a $6B valuation, well below the $10B the company sought last fall.
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