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Pomegra Startups
Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
Stellaria (UAE, formerly Farmin) raises $6.8M seed at a ~$114M valuation from angel investors, combining satellite imagery with geospatial AI models to generate real-time commercial intelligence about real-world activity.
WRTN Technologies (South Korea) raises $72.2M Series C at over a $722M valuation, becoming South Korea's first AI service startup to cross the unicorn threshold, with its consumer AI portal on track for 200B won in annual revenue.
Breedr (UK) raises €23M Series B from Partech to scale its livestock digitization platform, which gives every beef animal a cradle-to-supermarket digital passport covering genetics, health, and quality.
W4 Games (Ireland) raises $18M Series B led by Tencent, alongside a multi-year strategic partnership to expand the Godot open-source game engine's enterprise reach into Asia.
Israeli-founded Jedify closes a $24M Series A led by Norwest with Snowflake Ventures investing, to build the context-graph infrastructure layer that gives enterprise AI agents real-time access to business definitions, permissions, and operational rules across all data systems.
Ukrainian-founded London defense startup Uforce is in talks to raise fresh capital targeting a $4B+ valuation — up from $1B just six months ago — to expand manufacturing of its autonomous combat drones and surface vessels into allied countries.
Stripe finalizes its $7B+ acquisition of AI model-gateway startup OpenRouter, which routes developer traffic across 400+ AI models and serves 8 million developers — the largest AI-infrastructure exit since the Anysphere/Cursor deal.
Higgsfield (US) raises $400M Series B led by DST Global at a $5.4B valuation — quadrupling its worth in 8 months — as its AI video platform reaches $700M in annualized revenue and 390 Fortune 500 customers.
Rivian spinout Also (US) raises $150M Series D led by Prysm Capital at a $1B+ valuation to expand from e-bikes and cargo quads into autonomous delivery vehicles.
Defense startup Castelion (US) closes a $1B Series C at a $13B valuation led by JPMorgan, Andreessen Horowitz, and Carlyle to mass-produce its Blackbeard low-cost hypersonic strike missile, backed by $500M+ in US military contracts.
Stability AI (UK), maker of Stable Diffusion, raises $76M Series B backed by Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Warner Music, and Electronic Arts to expand its creative AI product suite.
Autonomous freight startup Gatik closes $200M Series D led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, following its multi-year driverless truck deployment with PepsiCo across Texas, Phoenix, and Arkansas.
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