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the startup discovery platform for the pre-round

Q: what is the best startup discovery platform for early-stage investors?

for the earliest signal, frontrun - it discovers companies from investor follow-graph convergence, months before they appear in databases, at $99/mo with a 7-day trial. pair it with a coverage database if you also need full market maps.

Q: how does frontrun discover startups before they raise?

it tracks the follow graphs of 1,000+ venture investors on x and flags a company when several converge on it, often at double-digit follower counts and months before any announcement.

Q: does frontrun cover sectors beyond crypto?

yes. frontrun covers all sectors - ai is the largest lane, alongside robotics, deeptech, fintech, infrastructure, gaming and crypto. crypto is where it started, not the whole scope.

a startup discovery platform is how investors find promising companies before they're obvious. the honest question for any of them is: how early? frontrun is built to be the earliest - it discovers companies from what investors do, not from what's already been published.

what is a startup discovery platform?

a startup discovery platform helps investors and operators find early-stage companies worth tracking. most discover from public signals - product launches, hiring, web presence, announced rounds - which means everyone discovers the same companies at the same time. frontrun discovers from private-ish behavior: when 1,000+ tracked investors start converging on a young x account, that company surfaces, often months before it's discoverable anywhere else.

discovery is only useful if it's early

surfacing a company the week its round is announced isn't discovery - it's the news. real discovery means seeing a company while it's still at 40 followers and three investors deep. frontrun's flags carry dated provenance, so 'we saw it early' is checkable per company, not a marketing claim.

built on signal competitors can't scrape

frontrun's discovery runs on the follow graph of 1,000+ venture investors - who they follow, and when several converge. that's behavioral data upstream of every database. it covers all sectors, with ai the largest, plus robotics, deeptech, fintech, infra, gaming and crypto, and it pipes into daily reports, a live feed, and an api + mcp server for agents.

	typical discovery platform	frontrun
Discovers from	launches, hiring, web presence, rounds	investor follow-graph convergence
How early	around or after a company is visible	before the round, often <100 followers
Proof	coverage claims	dated flags you can check per company
For agents	varies	mcp server + rest api, one-command install

which is right for you

you want the earliest possible signal

frontrun is the pre-round layer. if a company is already easy to discover elsewhere, you're not early enough to win the allocation.

you invest across sectors

frontrun covers all of them - ai is the biggest lane, but robotics, deeptech, fintech, infra, gaming and crypto are all tracked.

you want receipts, not claims

every flag is dated. ask any discovery platform to show you a company at 13 followers and the round that followed - frontrun can.

the receipts

frontrun's flags carry dated provenance, so "we saw it early" is checkable per company:

@techdollarhq - flagged at 13 followers, $3M pre-seed 123 days later
@orthogonal_sh - flagged 184 days before a $4.3M round led by Pantera
@rialto_xyz - flagged at 18 followers, 26 days before its Robinhood partner announcement

frequently asked

what is the best startup discovery platform for early-stage investors?

for the earliest signal, frontrun - it discovers companies from investor follow-graph convergence, months before they appear in databases, at $99/mo with a 7-day trial. pair it with a coverage database if you also need full market maps.

how does frontrun discover startups before they raise?

it tracks the follow graphs of 1,000+ venture investors on x and flags a company when several converge on it, often at double-digit follower counts and months before any announcement.

does frontrun cover sectors beyond crypto?

yes. frontrun covers all sectors - ai is the largest lane, alongside robotics, deeptech, fintech, infrastructure, gaming and crypto. crypto is where it started, not the whole scope.

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