Find newly seed-funded startups and log them automatically

Scans funding news for new seed-funded startups and adds company details to an Excel sheet for sales.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Starts itA stepA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Research & Market IntelligenceGeneral Automation
Connects
Bright DataOpenAIMicrosoft ExcelOneDrive

The problem it solves

Finding newly funded startups to reach out to means manually scanning news sites every day. By the time you notice a company raised money, a competitor may have already reached out. You want a steady stream of qualified leads without spending hours reading the news.

Who it fits

Sales or business development teams looking for a real-time list of newly funded startups.

How it works

  1. New funding news is detected from monitored news feeds
  2. The full article is scraped and cleaned up for reading
  3. AI extracts the company name, website, founders, and funding amount
  4. The details are added as a new row in an Excel sheet
What you get

Newly funded startups logged for outreach

You get a running list of newly funded startups, complete with founders and funding details, ready for your sales team to review.

What you get

An Excel sheet that fills up automatically with newly funded startup leads.

What you need

A Bright Data account, an OpenAI API key, and a Microsoft 365 account with Excel on OneDrive or SharePoint.

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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