tl;dr: frontrun flagged monid on april 20, 135 days before the company announced a $2.1M pre-seed from 1984 Ventures, Llama Ventures, Untapped Capital, and Founders Inc. frontrun flagged wafer, an open model inference router across nvidia, amd, and tpus, 138 days before its $40m series a co-led by Marathon and Chemistry.
Monid: $2.1M pre-seed, flagged 135 days early
FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged Monid on April 20th, back when they were @monid_ai. 135 days later: $2.1M pre-seed from @1984Ventures, @llama_venture, @UntappedVC and @fdotinc. 🫡 https://t.co/HSCK2HIGff
monid is the openrouter for agent tools: one connection point for every tool an agent needs to call.
flagged april 20 2026, announced september 1 2026. 135 days.
33 tracked investors were already following before the round.
the $2.1M pre-seed came from 1984 Ventures, Llama Ventures, Untapped Capital, and Founders Inc.
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Wafer: $40M Series A, flagged 138 days early
FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @wafer_ai on April 16th. 138 days later: $40M Series A co-led by @MarathonMP and @chemistry. 🫡 https://t.co/gr5F7IxtqO
wafer is AI that optimizes AI: it learns your traffic, then finds the fastest and cheapest way to run your model across engine, kernels and hardware.
flagged april 16 2026, announced september 1 2026. 138 days.
the $40M series A was co-led by Marathon and Chemistry, with Wing, AMD Ventures, Outset Capital, Fifty Years and Y Combinator participating.
follow from the front. frontrun.vc
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