Weekly funded-companies agent
The assignment
Build a weekly agent that scrapes last week's funded startups from the web and proposes your way in — a tailored application path.
✳What Shiv shipped
Fundwatch is a weekly funding research agent that tracks India's freshly funded startups, framed as "fresh funding rounds, unpacked like a PM." It lists 48 named companies with round, amount, and date detail — such as Dovetail Capital's $10.5M Series A and Neysa's $1.2B Series B — each sourced from outlets like Inc42, YourStory, ET Tech, and Tofler. Every company gets its own report covering what they likely built, hiring signals, product opportunities, go-to-market ideas, and competitive landscape, plus a run-history view showing the scheduled weekly refresh cadence.
✳Our read on this build
Shiv shipped a live link you can open. This read comes from the artifact and Shiv's own account of it — no scores, just what the build does and does not show.
What it demonstrates
- Fresh input is part of the machine: live search.
- And it is built to keep running: a weekly cadence and scheduling.
- Worth noting: research sits in front of the outreach, which is the difference between a targeted note and a mass send.
What is not shown
- The 'your way in' half of the brief is not visible publicly; a list of funded companies on its own is a newsletter.
Take this awayWhat makes this an agent rather than a search box is that it decides something — which companies matter to you, and what to say to them — before you get involved.
✳Why this quest matters
Agents earn their keep when they run without you. The bar isn't 'can AI write an outreach note' — it's 'does fresh data flow in on a schedule and come out tailored,' which is the real shape of an autonomous workflow.
✳What separated the strongest builds
Real companies, funded recently
Data pulled from a live source. A hardcoded list of startups everyone already knows about is a demo of a UI, not of an agent.
An application path that changes per company
The specific round, the sector, the role that funding implies. One paragraph with the company name swapped in is the failure mode here.
It runs without you
A schedule, a cron, a workflow trigger — something that makes 'weekly' true rather than aspirational.
Outreach you would actually send
Notes with judgment behind them. Volume is the easy part and the part that gets people ignored.
No numeric scores are published here. These pages are written reads of what each builder shipped — the build is the point, not a mark out of a hundred.