tl;dr: frontrun flagged tare 212 days before the company announced a $13.25M seed round led by Blockchain Capital. frontrun flagged aristotle, an applied ai tutoring lab, 94 days before its $5M seed led by True Ventures was announced. frontrun flagged Expanse 48 days before the company announced a $5.3M seed round led by Crane, with Y Combinator, Standard Capital, and PXN Group. frontrun flagged Noetive 20 days before the company announced a $41M seed round led by Eclipse.
Tare: $13.25M seed, flagged 212 days early
@frontrunvc · Sep 16, 2026
FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @tare_io on February 16th.
212 days later: $13.25M seed led by @bcap.
@tarecredit announcing it today is 8 days old, but the company has been on our radar since February. 🫡
Tare raised a $13.25M seed led by Blockchain Capital, announced today.
flagged on frontrun: february 16 2026. announced: september 16 2026. 212 days.
19 tracked accounts were following @tare_io before the round was announced. blockchain capital followed on april 30, 139 days before announcing it led the round.
the account Tare announced from today is 8 days old. the one we flagged in february has never posted a tweet.
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Aristotle: $5M seed, flagged 94 days early
@frontrunvc · Sep 16, 2026
FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @hey_aristotle on June 14th.
94 days later: $5M seed led by @trueventures, with Wicklow Capital. 🫡
Aristotle raised a $5M seed led by True Ventures, with Wicklow Capital.
flagged on frontrun: june 14 2026. announced: september 16 2026. 94 days.
5 tracked accounts were following @hey_aristotle before the round was announced. the product is a voice-driven ai tutor built around a whiteboard rather than a chat box.
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Expanse: $5.3M seed, flagged 48 days early
@frontrunvc · Sep 16, 2026
FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @ExpanseCompute on July 30th.
48 days later: $5.3M seed led by @crane_vc, with @ycombinator, @Standard_Cap and PXN Group. 🫡
https://t.co/8RsDljxgrA
Expanse Compute raised a $5.3M seed led by Crane Venture Partners, with Y Combinator, Standard Capital and PXN Group.
flagged on frontrun: july 30 2026. announced: september 16 2026. 48 days.
2 tracked accounts were following @ExpanseCompute before the round was announced. expanse predicts what an ai workload needs before it runs, so the same hardware does more work.
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Noetive: $41M seed, flagged 20 days early
Noetive raised a $41M seed led by Eclipse, with Craft Ventures, The Westly Group, Swish Ventures, Factory, Incite Ventures, Gigascale Capital, Operator Partners and Liquid 2 Ventures.
flagged on frontrun: august 27 2026, at 7 followers. announced: september 16 2026. 20 days.
2 tracked accounts were following @NoetiveAI before the round was announced. the bio then read "building in stealth - more to come soon." it now reads "the physical economy's ai lab."
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