startups · devtools · updated 2026-07-24
trending devtools startups, ranked by investor follow signal
frontrun tracks 44 devtools companies and watches which ones the follow graphs of 1,000+ venture investors converge on. these are the devtools companies with the most new tracked follows in the last 90 days - most of them before any announced round. counts are public; which investors are behind them is in the product.
| # | company | what they do | followers | first flagged | tracked follows (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conductor @conductor_build | Run a team of coding agents on your Mac and in the cloud | 24,328 | 2026-02-17 | +9 |
| 2 | Mintlify @mintlify | The knowledge infrastructure agents build on | 19,843 | 2026-02-28 | +7 |
| 3 | herdr @herdrdev | terminal-native runtime for coding agents. built by @lumendriada. | 2,492 | 2026-05-27 | +6 |
| 4 | Rerun @rerundotio | The data layer for physical AI. GitHub https://t.co/yf1KZN7DBI Discord https://t.co/7PIlvsZO9n | 7,300 | 2026-02-13 | +6 |
| 5 | Convex @convex | The backend platform she tells you not to worry about | 26,977 | 2026-02-26 | +5 |
| 6 | noondesign @noondesign | The first dual-canvas where you design how a product looks how it works. | 0 | 2026-04-03 | +4 |
| 7 | CocoIndex @cocoindex_io | Data Transformation for AI https://t.co/LyUTde0UXv | 1,068 | 2026-04-06 | +4 |
| 8 | Merge @merge_api | The connective infrastructure for production AI | 3,278 | 2026-05-27 | +4 |
| 9 | PromptLayer @promptlayer | Version and test your agents. The right way | 5,786 | 2026-07-06 | +4 |
| 10 | Magnitude @usemagnitude | The best way to code with open models. npm i -g @magnitudedev/cli | 226 | 2026-06-20 | +3 |
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