tl;dr: frontrun flagged Aranya 54 days before the company announced an $11M raise spanning a $9M seed led by First Round and a $2M pre-seed led by Asylum Ventures. afterquery became the fastest unicorn in y combinator history at a $3.2b valuation, flagged by frontrun 145 days before the news.
Aranya: $11M raised, flagged 54 days early
@frontrunvc · Sep 2, 2026
FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @AranyaInc on July 9th.
54 days later: $11M raised. $9M seed led by @firstround, $2M pre-seed led by @asylumventures.
Aranya is building the compute orchestration layer for AI workloads. the founding team came out of Crusoe; today they operate $500M+ of compute.
flagged july 9 2026, announced september 1 2026. 54 days.
3 tracked investors were following Aranya before the round surfaced. that signal was enough to put it on the radar two months out.
First Round led the $9M seed. Asylum Ventures led the $2M pre-seed. the infrastructure layer for AI is getting crowded, but the teams writing checks here are not generalists.
follow from the front. frontrun.vc
AfterQuery: $3.2B unicorn, flagged 145 days early
@frontrunvc · Sep 2, 2026
FUNDRAISE 💰: today @AfterQuery became the fastest unicorn in @ycombinator history valued at $3.2 billion.
On april 9th, the day a series A valued them at $300M, the attention started converging on X.
145 days after @frontrunvc first flagged them, 10x 🫡
AfterQuery is an applied research lab focused on curating data solutions to accelerate foundation model development. they went from a $300M series A to the fastest unicorn in Y Combinator history, closing at a $3.2B valuation.
flagged april 9 2026, announced september 2 2026. 145 days.
on the day of the series A, attention started converging. 13 tracked investors were already following AfterQuery on X before the crowd caught up.
a 10x move in under five months. the graph knew.
see the list before the round
these already happened. the useful list is the one where the round or the launch has not happened yet.
frontrun watches the follow graphs of 2,000+ tracked venture investors on X and flags the companies they converge on, with a date, the morning it happens.
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