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frontrun flagged Hone 57 days before its $60M seed round
tl;dr: Hone announced $60M seed on Oct 8, 2026, led by Benchmark and Index Ventures and Cowboy Ventures and Harrison Metal. frontrun flagged the company on Aug 12, 2026, when it had 52 followers, 57 days before the announcement.
what Hone raised
Hone (@hone · hone.com) announced $60M seed on Oct 8, 2026, led by Benchmark and Index Ventures and Cowboy Ventures and Harrison Metal, with participation from Slack Fund, Reach Capital, Rethink Education, Day One Ventures, Entangled Ventures, Masterclass CEO David Rogier, Guild Education CEO Rachel Carlson. verified against hone.com.
Hone builds AI that owns outcomes, not tasks.
how we knew 57 days early
frontrun watches the follow graphs of 2,000+ tracked venture investors on X. on Aug 12, 2026, tracked investors began following Hone, which had 52 followers at the time. that convergence was logged that day. the round landed 57 days later.
107 tracked investors follow Hone today, and the account has grown to 3,589 followers. that count is public. which investors they are, and the day each one followed, is what the product shows.
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other rounds we called early
Hark $700M (58d early) · Substance $50K (55d early) · Maglut Heavy Industries $3.1M (59d early) · intelligence_ai $7.9M (59d early) · Osmo Studio $5M (54d early)
data updated Oct 12, 2026 · Hone signal page · every round we called early · trending this week