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Pomegra Startups
Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
Boldr (UK) raises $5M pre-Series A from Unconventional Ventures and Ada Ventures to turn HVAC contractors into grid infrastructure providers by connecting home heating, cooling, and energy devices into flexible distributed grid capacity.
Solace Care (Sweden) raises a €2.1M pre-seed led by Spintop Ventures to expand its digital end-of-life planning and post-loss administration platform from 25,000 covered lives across Scandinavia into the Netherlands and UK.
EverPass Media (US) is acquired by UK sports streaming giant DAZN — EverPass holds exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket commercial venue distribution rights — rebranding as DAZN for Business, with RedBird Capital Partners, 32 Equity, and TKO Group becoming DAZN minority shareholders.
ASIO (Israel) raises $15M from Protego Ventures and Aliya Capital Partners to scale its GPS-independent tactical navigation, situational awareness, and command-and-control platforms globally, landing a component supply partnership with Anduril for unmanned aerial vehicles.
Exascale Labs (US) closes its SPAC business combination with D. Boral ARC Acquisition I Corp. and starts trading on Nasdaq today under ticker "XLAB," as an AI GPU-as-a-Service infrastructure provider with a ~$300M qualified customer pipeline.
BOOKR Kids (Hungary) closes a €6.1M Series A led by 3TS Capital Partners to expand its AI-powered digital literacy and reading platform, already serving 600,000 students across 30+ countries while EBITDA-positive.
ColibriTD (France) secures €4M seed led by Earlybird Venture Capital to commercialize its Hybrid Differential Equation Solver, a quantum-powered multiphysics simulation platform for aerospace, nuclear, and semiconductor industries.
Muon Space (US) closes a $250M Series C at a $1.5B valuation backed by Eclipse Capital, Google, and Salesforce Ventures to scale satellite constellation production to 500 satellites per year.
Wispr AI (US) raises $280M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Menlo Ventures for its AI dictation platform Flow and proprietary speech model Canto, which cuts word error rates to 5–10%.
Agentrys (US) closes a $24.5M seed round to build AI agents that autonomously take semiconductor chips from specifications to sign-off-clean GDS layout without human engineers.
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.
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