tl;dr: this is the a16z speedrun cohort 007 (SR007) list, mapped before demo day: 29 startups, their founders, and what they build. no press releases, no demo-day booklet. the companies surfaced because the follow graphs of 2,000+ investors we track lit up around them, weeks before anything was announced. some of these companies have not publicly said they exist.
frontrun watches who the best investors quietly follow on X. when several converge on a two-follower account, that is signal. here is where that signal pointed for speedrun's newest batch.
1. Keythorn: AI insurance
Keythorn (@TryKeythorn) is underwriting the new risks created as AI agents enter the economy. still dark: zero tweets, site behind a login.
founders: @beast_wong (MIT) and @CTewey (MIT) · LinkedIn
2. Phyvant: enterprise AI memory
Phyvant (@phyvant) builds AI with procedural memory that learns how your company's employees actually work, so enterprises own their intelligence instead of renting it from a lab.
founders: @BlitzK50 (Stanford) and @nihalgunukula · LinkedIn
3. Banbury Road: multi-agent AI research
Banbury Road (@BanburyRoadAI) is betting the next scaling law is scaling intelligence by NUMBER, not size: many small models working toward a shared purpose, trained end to end. they claim small local models beating the largest closed models on frontier tasks, and their multi-agent training algorithm trended on hugging face.
founders: @MLCatttt, @t_ed_li, @junyu_r.
4. Parca: real estate AI
Parca (@withparca) builds AI workspaces for land acquisition: hundreds of agents that know local regulations, development codes, and parcel data surface off-market parcels. the thesis: public listings leak seller intent, so off-market discovery wins.
founder: @YeddulaRishab · LinkedIn
5. Truli: compliance AI
Truli (@trytruli) automates FDA regulatory compliance for food, supplement, and CPG brands: continuous monitoring instead of hours of manual label auditing. 10x faster.
founders: @michael_wu8 and @cath_zhou · LinkedIn
6. Sotant: AI operations
Sotant (@Sotant_ai) builds custom AI employees for enterprise ops (supply chain, logistics, invoicing, contract enforcement) with imitation learning: they map how your best operators work, train AI to copy them, implement in ~3 weeks. claims up to 15% margin improvement.
founders: Eduardo Candela (CEO, ex Tesla) and @jdhackgrowth (COO) · LinkedIn
7. Reelful: AI video
Reelful (@reelful) is an agentic video editor that lives on your phone: one instruction plus your camera roll, and it scripts, edits, adds motion, text, music, and voiceover into a ready-to-post short. covered by techcrunch.
founder: @katedeyneka (ex Snapchat ML) · LinkedIn
8. Primitive Labs: behavioral intelligence
Primitive Labs (@primitivelabsai) builds simulation architectures and memory systems that model how real humans think, buy, and consume, so product teams test against high-fidelity simulated users instead of averages. angels include david luan and josh constine.
founders: @RoTalluri (CEO) and @jafarmer26 (CTO), both ex Amazon AGI · LinkedIn
9. Infragrid: finance AI
Infragrid (@infragrid) is the AI operating system for finance: an ontology of the firm's knowledge, a screen recorder that turns one recording of a browser workflow (AML, fraud, KYB) into deterministic runnable code, and an app studio for internal tools.
founders: @ashwinkodib (prev Mercor, Microsoft, AWS) and @ephraim888sun (prev Palantir) · LinkedIn
10. Embrasure: AI data infrastructure
Embrasure (@EmbrasureAI) is building the first autonomous data warehouse: governable data infra so agents find and use enterprise data correctly. first product is scout, a data-observability agent that learns what normal looks like for every table and sends suggested fixes to slack.
founders: @jacobkieser (ex Palantir, Uber) and @victorsunderlan (ex OpenAI) · LinkedIn
11. OpenWhispr: voice AI
OpenWhispr (@openwhispr) is open source, privacy-first dictation: ~150 WPM instead of 40, running whisper locally with zero data retention. the free alternative to wispr flow. 100+ languages.
founder: @gabrielste1n · LinkedIn
12. Bounty: agent marketplace
Bounty (@trybountyai) is fiverr for AI agents, in the founders' own words: people post tasks, thousands of agents discover the work, complete it, and get paid.
founders: @aashna_doshi2 (co-CEO, ex Google) and @rayandabbagh (co-CEO, ex AWS and Facebook) · LinkedIn
13. Mecone: markets infrastructure
Mecone (@meconemarkets) builds financial infrastructure to make every asset tradeable: prediction-market data reconciled into manipulation-resistant benchmark indices designed for perps, so you could one day trade real estate, fine art, private equity, or CPI. early indices: private equity, SF rent, post-war contemporary art.
founders: @xanwesley and @hugo_stack · LinkedIn
14. Space: cloud file systems
Space is a file system with infinite storage: terabytes visible locally at zero disk space, streaming only the byte ranges an app requests. davinci, premiere, and photoshop see it as a normal hard drive.
founders: @ItsMatthewAo (CEO), @BapnaArihant, @byjasonz · LinkedIn
15. ELU: self-healing software
ELU watches real user sessions, catches the bugs users actually hit, diagnoses the cause, and opens a ready-to-merge pull request with the fix. queryable over MCP from cursor and claude code.
founder: @aliajam_ (CTO, ex Microsoft).
16. Alven: real estate AI
Alven is an AI receptionist for real estate and property management: answers calls 24/7, qualifies leads, captures details so businesses never miss a lead. the founder is a pro rock climber.
founder: @aaaaaaaaandrey.
17. Colmez: waste AI
Colmez is AGI: artificial garbage intelligence. AI agents for the waste industry's sales and account busywork: finding waste stream leads, interpreting lab analyses, flagging stalled deals and underpriced renewals.
founders: @numairarazzak (Stanford '25) and Rayhan Razzak (CEO, Stanford, ex SIG) · LinkedIn
18. Athena: legal AI
Athena is a law firm built to close deals faster.
founder: @cemucan001.
19. Acaysia: industrial control AI
Acaysia does real-time predictive control for physical industrial processes, proven first on chemical reactors: ~2% more yield, ~10% less energy, sub-100ms failsafe response, running on custom GPU simulation runtimes.
founder: @aiastatsis · LinkedIn
20. Similate: synthetic market research
Similate lets you test market reactions with AI-simulated audiences before spending real budget, with an honesty layer: predictions locked before outcomes are known and accuracy tracked against real results.
21. Philyron: maritime AI
Philyron does predictive maintenance for commercial ships, which run with essentially zero real-time engine telemetry today: proprietary sensors, edge hardware, and AI trained on live fleet data. paid pilot with SF bay ferry, ~$2.5M in LOIs, advisors include a 4-star admiral.
founder: @heon_connect · LinkedIn
22. Mirai: real estate AI
Mirai is generative AI that shows homebuyers what daily life would feel like in a location before they move: the neighborhood, commutes, routines. "people don't buy homes. they buy lives."
founders: @ccaleblo and @_andrewshum.
23. Nimble: freight AI
Nimble builds AI agents for freight forwarders that live in the team's existing inbox: read every shipping enquiry, chase carrier rates, draft quotes, keep customers informed. humans approve every send.
founder: @kapoor015.
24. Her Labs: organizational memory
Her Labs is a passive company brain: records everything said and done inside a startup (starting with employees' macbooks), then abstracts it into a shared knowledge layer. they say it could recreate your linear and notion from a few days of listening.
founder: @adristotle · LinkedIn
25. Kira: water tech
Kira does electrochemical desalination that cuts wastewater costs 50%+ while making more clean water. deploying at the largest US groundwater desalination plant.
founder: @Jon_Bessette (MIT PhD, published in nature water) · LinkedIn
26. Vene Health: elder care
Vene Health turns a home into a caregiver for older adults. no new hardware, no app. funded within 48 hours of their first intro; declined their YC interview.
founders: @NikNandi and @sujaldkl (Georgia Tech) · LinkedIn
27. Rhema Health: healthcare AI
Rhema Health is an AI voice agent for medicare intake that reads the chart before it dials.
founders: @davidclarkmoore and @adamdavison1310, both ex Meta; adam ran reels monetization from $0 to $10B+ · LinkedIn
28. Motherboard Labs: industrial AI
Motherboard Labs is AI riding along with industrial service technicians: diagnoses, then does the write-ups, estimates, and parts orders.
founders: @TheRobertDoh and Pranit Gupta (ex Palantir) · LinkedIn
29. Alia: team coordination AI
Alia is AI for team coordination: vague requests, unaccountable "on it" replies, untracked promises. no website yet.
founders: @tomfilsh and @liviakuga.
how this list was made
all of it came through frontrun's API and MCP: track the right accounts across tech and AI, watch who they follow, and surface the companies the moment investor attention converges. most of this cohort had under 500 followers when the graph flagged them. the signal arrives weeks before the press release.
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