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frontrun flagged wafer 165 days before its $40M Series A round
tl;dr: wafer announced $40M Series A on Sep 1, 2026, led by Marathon and Chemistry. frontrun flagged the company on Mar 20, 2026, when it had 664 followers, 165 days before the announcement.
what wafer raised
wafer (@wafer_ai · wafer.ai) announced $40M Series A on Sep 1, 2026, led by Marathon and Chemistry, with participation from Wing, AMD Ventures, Outset Capital, Fifty Years, Y Combinator, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Andy Fang, Kyle Vogt, Akshay Kothari, Matthew Prince, Scott Stephenson. verified against wafer.ai.
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how we knew 165 days early
frontrun watches the follow graphs of 2,000+ tracked venture investors on X. on Mar 20, 2026, tracked investors began following wafer, which had 664 followers at the time. that convergence was logged that day. the round landed 165 days later.
79 tracked investors follow wafer today, and the account has grown to 14,389 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
frontrun $18.5M (166d early) · sazabi $8M (166d early) · Cari Network $32.5M (168d early) · Crebit $4M (168d early) · Smack Technologies $61M (162d early)
data updated Oct 12, 2026 · wafer signal page · every round we called early · trending this week