tl;dr: ten early-stage rounds were announced the week of august 7 2026, from a $57M Series B down to a $5M seed. frontrun had flagged all ten before the news broke, with an average lead time of 111 days. the longest was 180 days. the shortest was 19.
the ten rounds
Sapiom: $35M Series A, led by Dragonfly
Sapiom (@sapiom) raised $35M led by Dragonfly, with Accel and Anthropic. infrastructure that runs AI agents in production. they shipped three products the same day, starting with Sapiom Router, which attacks inference cost.
founder: @i_zerbib · flagged february 6, at 677 followers. 180 days.
Today we are announcing a $35M Series A led by @dragonfly_xyz, and shipping three products.
August 5, 2026
we covered this one in full: Sapiom raised $35M, Osmo raised $5M.
Aurelius Systems: $40M Series A, led by Draper
Aurelius Systems (@aureliuslasers) raised $40M led by Draper Associates. the round accelerates development and fielding of Archimedes, their directed-energy counter-drone platform. defense, not software.
founders: Michael LaFramboise (co-founder and CEO) and John Marmaduke (co-founder) · flagged february 26. 159 days.
Aurelius Systems raises $40M in Series A funding. This round accelerates development and fielding of Archimedes, our directed-energy counter-sUAS platform.
August 5, 2026
Convex: $57M, led by Insight Partners
Convex (@convex) raised $57M led by Insight Partners. the reactive backend platform for full-stack app developers: database, server functions and sync in one system, which has become a default in the AI-app-building wave.
CEO: @jamwt · flagged february 26. 159 days.
Ambrook: $30M Series B, led by Lachy Groom
Ambrook (@ambrookag) raised $30M led by Lachy Groom. finance software built for agriculture: accounting, bill pay and cards for farms and ranches. they grew from 2,500 to 8,000+ customers in a year.
founders: @ciaomack (CEO), @jeffand_ (prev Scale AI, Facebook) and @danrschlosser (head of product) · flagged march 1. 156 days.
naïve: $28.5M Series A, led by Nexus
naïve (@usenaive) raised $28.5M led by Nexus Venture Partners. the infrastructure AI agents need to operate entire businesses: compute, memory and the rest of the substrate. Nexus framed it as "the last two years proved autonomous software, the next decade will be about autonomous companies."
founders: Sean Dorje (CEO) and Dennis Zax (CTO) · flagged march 19, at 1,437 followers. 140 days.
V12: $10M seed, backed by Electric Capital
V12 (@v12sec) raised $10M backed by Electric Capital. an AI agent that hunts exploitable bugs. the bio is "dangerously powerful agentic security," and the product is already being used to streamline audit work.
founder: @gf_256, founder and hacker at @zellic_io · flagged may 9. 90 days. 23 investors have arrived on it since.
Vangrid: $9M seed, backed by HashKey Capital
Vangrid (@vangrid_io) raised $9M in a token round backed by HashKey Capital, Borderless Capital, Crypto.com Capital and Animoca Brands. a DePIN network that turns phones into spatial-data collectors for physical AI.
founder: @rodger_dwight · flagged may 9, at 11,341 followers. 90 days.
Atlas: $11.5M seed, led by Greycroft
Atlas (@atlasmotion) raised $11.5M led by Greycroft and Also Capital. motion systems for drones, robots and autonomous machines: motors and actuators, supplied in volume.
founders: @CMochen (CEO), @carlodlrs (formerly Shield AI) and @tombaron · flagged june 4, at 168 followers. 63 days. the announcement.
full write-up: Atlas raised an $11.5M seed, Pally raised $5.2M.
Osmo Studio: $5M seed, led by Bain Capital Ventures
Osmo Studio (@osmo_studio) raised $5M led by Bain Capital Ventures. an end-to-end editable video platform that turns Figma, code and reference videos into fully editable motion. the team ran a production studio before they built the software.
founder: @willyhopps, who left @A24 to start it · flagged june 12. 54 days. the announcement.
Avatar Robotics: $6.5M seed, led by AlleyCorp
Avatar Robotics (@avatarrobots) raised $6.5M led by AlleyCorp. teleoperators controlling warehouse robots, covered by Business Insider. "building the unlimited workforce."
founder: @thecolinwebb (founder and CEO) · flagged july 17. 19 days. the account has 21 followers today, two weeks after a $6.5M round.
what 111 days of lead time actually buys you
111 days is the length of the window where the round is still forming.
at 180 days Sapiom had 677 followers and no Series A. at 63 days Atlas had 168. Avatar Robotics has 21 followers today, after the money landed. a follower count tells you what already happened.
the sectors here are a defense laser company, farm accounting software, a DePIN network and a video editor. the signal is not sector-specific because attention is not sector-specific.
how the flag works
frontrun tracks the follow graphs of 2,000+ venture investors on X. when several converge on the same small or unlaunched account, that convergence is recorded with a date and the follower count at that moment. alongside it the pipeline runs accelerator-batch monitoring, launch and fundraise detection, and a founder resolution layer.
the date is stamped when the signal fires, before any press release exists. that is what makes a lead time provable instead of a story told in hindsight. every round here joins the receipt ledger with its flag date and source link.
see the list before the round
these ten already raised. the useful list is the one where the round has not happened yet.
see who is on the list today →
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