Research newly funded startups automatically with AI

Scans startup news, pulls the funding details, digs deeper on each company, and organizes it all in one database.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per newly funded startup.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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Starts itRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
AirtableClaudePerplexity

The problem it solves

Tracking which startups just raised money and figuring out who to reach out to means hours of reading news sites and cross-referencing investor names by hand. By the time you finish your research, the best opportunities may already be gone.

Who it fits

Investors, sales teams, and consultants who need to know about newly funded companies fast.

How it works

  1. The system checks startup news sites for new funding announcements
  2. AI pulls out the company name, funding amount, and investors from each article
  3. AI does deeper research on each company to fill in more detail
  4. Every result is organized into a structured database
What you get

Newly funded companies you hear about first

You get a running, organized list of newly funded startups with the details filled in for you.

What you get

An organized database of recently funded startups with funding details and research notes.

What you need

An Airtable account and API access to an AI research service such as Claude or Perplexity.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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