tl;dr: frontrun flagged Antioch Robotics 144 days before the company announced a $32M series A led by Greylock, with A*, Category Ventures, BoxGroup, and Icehouse Ventures. frontrun flagged Tazapay 212 days before Circle announced its acquisition of the cross-border payments platform.
Antioch Robotics: $32M series A, flagged 144 days early
@frontrunvc · Sep 8, 2026
FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @antiochrobotics on April 17th, and was #1 on our "12 robotics companies under 1,000 followers" list on June 11th.
144 days later: $32M Series A led by @GreylockVC, with @A_StarVC, @Category_VC, @BoxGroup and @IcehouseVenture.
Antioch builds cloud simulation for physical AI: onboard a robot, build high fidelity scenes, and test autonomy in hours instead of weeks in the field. TechCrunch called it "the Cursor for physical AI." the team is ex Tesla Autopilot, ex Google DeepMind and ex Meta Reality Labs.
flagged april 17 2026 at 124 followers, announced september 8 2026. 144 days.
frontrun caught Antioch at 124 followers. on june 11 it was #1 on our list of 12 robotics companies under 1,000 followers, at 486. by the round, 17 tracked accounts were following it.
Greylock led the $32M series A, joined by A*, Category Ventures, BoxGroup and Icehouse Ventures. customers already include Amazon Ring, NVIDIA Robotics and Nebius.
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Tazapay: acquired by Circle, flagged 212 days early
@frontrunvc · Sep 8, 2026
ACQUIRED 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @tazapay on February 8th.
212 days later: acquired by @circle
Tazapay is cross border payments infrastructure: collect, hold and pay out across 100+ markets, $25B in annualized volume, about 60% of it already moving in stablecoins.
flagged february 8 2026 at around 800 followers, acquired by Circle, announced september 8 2026. 212 days.
4 tracked accounts followed Tazapay before the news. no terms disclosed.
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