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Pomegra Startups
Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
Airbound (India) raises $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, with DoorDash and Lightspeed joining, for its tail-sitter cargo drones that carry payload at three times the industry ratio and have signed a 10,000-daily-flight deal in Andhra Pradesh.
ClearJet (US) raises $25M Series B led by Edison Partners for its air-cargo logistics network that fills unused belly space on commercial flights across 95 US airports, now profitable and approaching nine figures in revenue.
Base Power (US) raises another $1B Series D at $13B valuation co-led by Ribbit Capital and Valor Equity, installing 100 home batteries per day as its backyard-battery grid-support model reaches profitable scale.
LifeMine Therapeutics (US) closes $188M Series E backed by Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier, and RA Capital to advance LIFE-001, a fungi-derived drug designed to replace toxic calcineurin inhibitors used to prevent organ rejection.
Horizon3.ai (US) raises $250M Series E at $2B+ valuation, tripling its prior valuation, to scale its NodeZero platform that autonomously attacks enterprise networks the way real adversaries do.
eComID (Sweden) raises €14.6M led by Systemiq Capital to scale its "Shopping Passport," a cross-brand shopper-context layer enabling AI-personalized commerce across 60+ brands and 20M monthly shoppers.
Hush Security (Israel) raises $30M Series A with Akamai joining as strategic investor, for its machine-access platform that governs AI agents with just-in-time permissions and a centralized kill switch.
Bridge to Life (US) closes $110M Series C led by Soleus Capital to commercialize VitaSmart, the only FDA-cleared hypothermic oxygenated perfusion system for liver transplants.
Cognition (US) — maker of AI coding agent Devin — is reported in early talks to raise at a $40B valuation, up from $26B in May, as annualized revenue approaches $1B.
Velaura AI (US, formerly Auradine) raises $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation to commercialize ultra-low-power silicon that cuts AI data center energy consumption by two to four times.
Gravis Robotics (Switzerland) raises $200M Series A solely from SoftBank at a $1B valuation, becoming Europe's latest robotics unicorn with its retrofit kit that turns Caterpillar, Volvo, and John Deere heavy machinery autonomous.
Cityblock Health (US) raises $116M Series E led by General Catalyst and simultaneously acquires rural Medicare provider Homeward Health in an all-stock deal, combining urban and rural value-based care coverage for nearly 200,000 members.
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