comparisons · frontrun vs grata
frontrun vs Grata
Grata helps you search the private middle market once companies exist in the data. Frontrun tells you which young companies investors are already converging on.
Grata is a private-market search and deal-sourcing platform (PE / M&A) - AI-powered search across 21M+ private, middle-market and founder-led companies that legacy databases miss. Frontrun is a different bet: it watches what 1,000+ venture investors do on X (who they follow) and flags companies months before a round, at $99/mo.
| Grata | Frontrun | |
|---|---|---|
| Signal type | Firmographic search / market maps of existing private companies (retrospective) | Investor follow-graph (pre-round, behavioral) |
| Earliest you hear about a company | When it has enough web and firmographic footprint to be indexed | Before any announcement, often at <100 followers |
| Price | Enterprise, custom quote | $99/mo, 7-day trial |
| Best for | Building thematic target lists across the middle market | Sourcing deals before they're deals |
| Agent access | API + agentic search | API + MCP server (npx) |
Complementary, not either/or. Grata for mapping and screening the middle market, Frontrun for catching the earliest venture-stage movers. Many dealmakers run both.
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