Automatically find and qualify newly funded companies as leads

Scrapes funding-news articles, uses AI to pull out newly funded companies, and adds qualified leads to a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; runs once per each funding announcement article.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsMessaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
Google SheetsSlackGoogle Gemini

The problem it solves

You scan the news for funding announcements hoping to catch new prospects before your competitors do. Doing this by hand every day is slow, and it's easy to miss relevant articles entirely.

Who it fits

Venture capitalists, sales teams, and market researchers who track newly funded companies.

How it works

  1. List of keywords and locations pulled from a spreadsheet
  2. Web scraper collects relevant funding-announcement articles
  3. AI reads the articles and extracts company name, investment area, and source
  4. Qualified leads added to the spreadsheet, duplicates skipped
  5. Team notified in Slack when the lead list updates
What you get

Newly funded companies added before your competitors call them

You get a growing list of newly funded companies worth reaching out to, pulled straight from funding news.

What you get

An updated lead list of newly funded companies with sources, plus a team notification.

What you need

A Google Sheets account, an AI API key, a web scraping service account, and a Slack account.

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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