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Pomegra Startups
Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
Twin1 AI (USA/UK) exits stealth with a $20M seed co-led by Bessemer, Tribeca, and Aramco Ventures to build privacy-first AI "digital twins" that absorb a professional's knowledge and scale their expertise across an organization.
London AI tutoring startup Medly AI, built by two former NHS doctors, raises $8M Seed led by Felix Capital to expand its GCSE exam-prep platform — already used by 400,000 UK students — into US SAT preparation.
Israeli defense-tech firm ASIO Technologies raises $15M in its first-ever external funding round after 20+ years of profitable bootstrapping, to globally deploy its GPS-denied tactical coordination systems; simultaneously closed a multi-million-dollar deal with Anduril.
Israeli-founded enterprise AI startup June AI exits stealth with a $20M pre-seed led by Marc Benioff's TIME Ventures — with Michael Dell, Aaron Levie, and George Kurtz also backing — to auto-deploy AI agents inside complex enterprise software stacks.
Queen One, founded by former Wunderkind executives, raises $25M from Mercury Fund to build a commerce CRM platform designed to help brands manage post-click customer relationships.
AI chip startup Velaura AI raises $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation led by Seligman Ventures, to commercialize its Titan Core silicon platform promising 2–4x better AI performance per watt than existing solutions.
Swiss biotech Vaderis Therapeutics closes an oversubscribed $152M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Life Sciences to fund a global Phase 3 trial of engasertib, a potential first-ever approved treatment for rare vascular disorder HHT.
AI speech startup Wispr raises $280M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Menlo Ventures, expanding beyond dictation into AI meeting notes with a new model that cuts transcription error rates from 30% to under 10%.
Nuclear microreactor startup Valar Atomics raises $1B Series B at a $6B valuation led by Sequoia, to manufacture fleets of small reactors for AI data centers and heavy industry after becoming the first VC-backed company to achieve nuclear criticality.
Indian fintech Navi raises $100M from Prosus in its first institutional funding round, valuing it at $1.3B ahead of a planned IPO.
UK AI chip startup OLIX raises €270.5M Series B at a €2.8B valuation just two years after founding, backed by Arm and Hudson River Trading.
Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M seed to customize electric and gas-powered delivery vans.
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