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Pomegra Startups
Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
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.
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.
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