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Pomegra Startups
Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
Kazimi (Germany) raises an oversubscribed €2.2M pre-seed led by Market One Capital to help mobile app developers detect bots and protect first-party data, as bot traffic is projected to surpass human internet traffic for the first time in 2026.
Legato (US) exits stealth with $12M from Neotribe Ventures to launch the world's first AI hearing glasses, embedding hearing-assistance tech into eyewear arms at a fraction of traditional hearing-aid prices — founded by the creator of Bose Frames.
Generalist (US) — ex-DeepMind founders Pete Florence and Andy Zeng — close a $200M extension at a $3B valuation led by 8VC for their foundation model that lets a single AI system control different robot bodies without hand-coded task programming.
Emerald AI (US) closes an oversubscribed $150M Series A at a $1.05B valuation co-led by Energize Capital and DCVC — with Nvidia, Siemens, and GE Vernova joining — to build AI data centers that dynamically throttle their grid power draw to stabilize the electrical grid.
Instinct (US) raises $350M at a $2.5B valuation led by Index Ventures and Benchmark for its invite-only AI personal agent, whose valuation rocketed from $100M to $2.5B in a matter of weeks under a 23-year-old founder.
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.
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