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A week of raises. @frontrunvc flagged 10 startups before they were announced. 👇 Average lead time: 97 days. 1. @proximalhq - 225 days ago. $15M seed led by @generalcatalyst 2. @revnu_app - 133 days ago. $3M seed led by PXN Equity Finance 3. @charter_space_ - 116 days ago. $5M seed led by Crystal Venture Partners 4. @walapay_io - 113 days ago. $4.6M seed led by Generative Ventures 5. @photonhq - 98 days ago. $4.5M seed led by @gradientvc 6. @hop_aero - 66 days ago. $11M seed led by @initialized 7. @autopoiesislab - 64 days ago. $11M seed led by @thresholdvc 8. @getoutersignal - 56 days ago. $22M Series A led by @LongJourneyVC 9. @halluminateai - 50 days ago. $30M Series A led by @oakhcft 10. @doxxnethq - 50 days ago. $38M Series A led by @a16z Great week to follow from the front. Pushing for better coverage + longer lead times. 🫡
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Introducing: Frontrunners 🏃 487 startups. 10 sectors. 1 quarter of attention. 25 made the top list in Q3. Is yours on it? 👇
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Today's fundraises. @frontrunvc flagged 4 startups before they were announced. 👇 Average lead time: 82 days. 1. @revnu_app - 132 days ago. $3M seed led by - PXN Equity Finance 2. @PhotonHQ - 97 days ago. $4.5M seed led by @gradientvc 3. @HalluminateAI - 49 days ago. $30M Series A led by @oakhcft 4. @DoxxnetHQ - 49 days ago. $38M Series A led by @a16z
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EARLY 🌱: 5 companies across Healthcare, Robotics, AI, Energy and DevTools.👇 @dydemaneuro - 2 followers - (Healthcare): the model company for neurotech, building the data layer for brain tech. @ycombinator F26. @deadreckoningai - 4 followers - (Robotics): touch-enabled robots that do contact-rich assembly on factory lines, paid per completed job. @fdotinc @neomatterai - 9 followers - (AI): ai that works for in-house legal teams. @ycombinator F26. @intdyninc - 26 followers - (Energy): high-temperature fermentation that turns corn cobs and local biomass into fuel, onshore. @boxesdotdev - 45 followers - (DevTools): a cloud computer for every coding agent. start them from slack or linear, run them from your phone. @ycombinator F26.
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FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @getoutersignal on August 7th. 54 days later: $22M Series A co-led by @LongJourneyVC and @abstractvc.
Thrilled to announce @getOuterSignal has raised a $22M Series A. A year ago, @zachzelner and I saw an opportunity to revolutionize personalization. We spun out a tool he’d built into a company, and got to work. In the time since, we’ve gone from a few early customers to thousands, from 2 team members to 25, and created an entirely new frontier for how businesses can understand and market to their customers. Our team has built a robust platform, trained internal models, conducted industry-leading research, and onboarded thousands of companies we’re proud to work with. So, this raise is meant for one thing only: to keep shipping, faster than ever, the very best products for the consumer businesses we power. Ecom, hospitality, mobile apps and beyond: OuterSignal is here to supercharge the way companies connect with consumers. As founders, we’re humbled, grateful, and truly just getting started. Try us for free at OuterSignal.com. And if you’re an A-player ready to work on something ambitious and enduring, we want to meet you. DM’s open. Onward 🚀
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FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @autopoiesislab on July 30th. 62 days later: $11M seed led by @thresholdvc, with @InformedVenture, @alpacavc, @vitalstage, @CorrelationVC and @DarkmodeVC. 🫡
We’ve raised $11M in seed funding led by Threshold Ventures, with participation from Informed Ventures, Alpaca VC, VitalStage Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Darkmode Ventures, Mike Mahlkow, Cross Atlantic Angels, Max Keller, JD Montgomery, Adam Grosser, and others, to continue to build AI capable of autonomous scientific discovery.
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FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @charter_space_ on June 8th. 114 days later: $5M seed led by Crystal Venture Partners, with @QED, @hustlefundvc, @Gaingels and Blank Ventures. 🫡
💫 @sokane in @TechCrunch: “Charter Space raises $5M to bring insurance to the stars.” This investment will help us scale critical space infrastructure, bring more capital into the market, and ensure the future of the space economy is built in America. techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/ch…
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FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @hop_aero on July 28th. 64 days later: $11M led by @initialized. 🫡
We’re happy to share that @Hop_Aero has raised $11M to accelerate the development of rocket cargo. Funding led by @Initialized, with participation from @ycombinator, @lunar_vc, System.One, Outsized Ventures and more. Also joined by strategic angels @paulg , @JasonMiller and more. Time to get building 🚀
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STEALTH 🥷: 5 founders building in stealth, recently flagged by the stealth discovery pipeline on @frontrunvc: 👇 1. @anand_404 = Led RL for Sarvam's 30B/105B models · IIT Kanpur EE grad · Ex-Adobe MDSR researcher. 2. @tkejr_ = Founding engineer, Mira Mace (healthcare AI) · Prior SaaS sold for 4x ARR · @fdotinc Ship It alum. 3. @dolan_hwang = Principal MLE at @Atlassian · Built Rovo Chat agentic infra · Berkeley CS grad. 4. @lxnmnnn = First hire & Lead Eng, Kinetic (GV-backed) · Ex-Microsoft SWE · Case Western CS grad. 5. @zenluminary = Stanford MS AI/CS · Ex-XPENG ML infra engineer · @join_ef Founder in Residence.
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10 AI labs you've never heard of 👇 1. @timbralai = human-level hearing for AI 2. @presagelabs_ai = world models for cloud infrastructure 3. @perfectbitai = policies for robots that do real work 4. @chariot_in = teaching machines to think in speech 5. @strandaibio = spatial proteomics from routine slides 6. @edotenv = financial markets as RL environments 7. @paperinstr = open frontier models for knowledge work (YC) 8. @action_int_ai = robot models trained on human experience 9. @world_mech_ai = interpretable models of the physical world 10. @haptalabs = tactile data and models for robots
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FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @ProximalHQ on March 17th. 222 days later: $15M seed led by @generalcatalyst, with @chemistry, @svangel, @dvlamoen, @LiamFedus and @kevinweil. 🫡
Proximal builds infrastructure that enables AI to improve from real-world experience. In the past year, we have grown to more than $200M in annualized revenue helping frontier labs and enterprises improve coding agents. Now, we are expanding beyond software engineering. Recent progress in mathematics demonstrates what happens when models are trained in domains with massive amounts of public data and easy verifiability, making it easy to find weaknesses, generate training tasks, and iterate quickly. We build infrastructure that enables this feedback loop in other domains: we are excited about a world in which AI systems design targeted drugs, accelerate chip design, and rewrite legacy software that still runs hospitals, power grids, governments, and other critical infrastructure. Since starting, we have assembled a small team of researchers and engineers and built world-class infrastructure for post-training and synthetic data research to overcome the challenges of scaling manual data curation. Our team comes from Cursor, Google DeepMind, Meta Superintelligence, Prime Intellect, Citadel, and Jane Street. More than half are former founders. We’re fortunate to be backed by investors who share that vision, including @generalcatalyst who led our $15M Seed Round at a $300M valuation, as well as @chemistry, @svangel, @dvlamoen and individuals like @LiamFedus, @kevinweil, and @bernhardsson
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FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @jeeves_inc on March 18th. 195 days later: $110M round led by @coinfund, with @a16z, @ycombinator, @CRV, @cbventures and @AB_insights. 🫡
Excited to announce our $110M raise to scale our stablecoin-native banking platform for global enterprises across 35 countries (10 new countries!) 🚀🦁 Our stablecoin business crossed $1.5B annualized volume in just 8 months, driven by exponential enterprise demand. Since signing the Series C-1 term sheet, revenue has grown more than 50% in a few months. The pace is accelerating. As we go deeper into the stablecoin ecosystem, I'm pumped to have @coinfund lead the round, joined by @AB_insights, @a16z, @cbventures, @CRV, GIC, @gpt, @paraficapital, Vista, @wmt_ventures, @ycombinator and others. Also grateful to have the best founders building in the space joining the round: @zcabrams (Bridge, OUSD), @psneville (Circle, Catena), @sternhenri (Privy), @prabhakar2reddy & @karan705 (OpenFX), @SamBroner (Better Money Co.) and Ricardo Marino (Global Chairman at Itaú), among others. Over the last year, AI & stablecoins have powered us to an inflection point. Today, we have fewer employees than we did two years ago, while revenue and volume have grown more than 10x crossing $5B in annualized TPV. AI is embedded across Jeeves and has fundamentally changed how we build and operate. Alongside the round, we're launching: 💸 Jeeves stablecoin wallets: Our custom built wallets supporting USDC and USDT, with payouts to 190 countries, all in one platform. 💳 Cards in 10 more countries: Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Panama, Guatemala and others. The same award winning expense management platform used by BMW, Burger King and H&M are now available in these markets. 🧾 Accounts Receivable (AR): Alongside our core Cards and AP modules, we're launching our AR module, starting with Brazil 🇧🇷 This was one of the biggest customer requests! 📊 Jeeves Global AI Spend Tracker: We all know AI spend is growing but if you operate in six countries, with Claude spend in pesos & OpenAI spend in pounds, how do you actually know what you spent across models, countries, currencies & what drives ROI? Well now you do with our Global AI spend tracker across the globe 🌎 🇪🇸 Lastly, we opened our doors in Madrid to accelerate our expansion across EMEA, with a focus on stablecoin payment corridors between Europe & the world. The next decade of global banking will be agentic and seamless between stablecoin and fiat. To build this companies need to own the primitives directly. This chapter is being written right now, and small teams with big ambition, powered by AI and stablecoins, will write it. We intend to be the company that defines it 🌎 Thank you to our customers, teammates and investors for the trust you put in us every day 🙏 If you want to shape the future of global money at the cutting edge of stablecoins and AI, come build it with us. It won't be easy but it will be fun 👉 tryjeeves.com/us/about-us Day one of this next chapter starts now. It's time to build.
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LAUNCH 🚀: @frontrunvc flagged @supertake on September 3rd at 18 followers, 25 days before today's launch. tell an agent what you believe and it builds a portfolio around your take, manages it, and rebalances. @mignano followed it the day after we flagged it. today he announced it. 🫡
Introducing @Supertake, a new platform that transforms your unique takes on the world into real, shareable investment portfolios using frontier AI and trading agents. Supertake makes it easy for anyone to invest in their ideas, even if they know nothing about investing. 1/
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Bonsai just came out of stealth (@sebgoddijn ) On @frontrunvc, the story started 46 days before launch. aug 13: @sebgoddijn flagged building, fresh out of internal AI at @tryramp. sep 15: in our "10 founders building in stealth" article. sep 24: 6 tracked accounts following since the flag. sep 28: out of stealth. the founder, before the company 🥷
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