recent-funding-rounds

When To Use

Use when the user wants to discover companies that have raised funding recently in a given sector. Typical triggers: "what companies raised funding this week?", "show me recent seed rounds", "latest Series A deals in fintech". The skill issues a single MPP on Tempo call to Brave Search's /brave/news-search and returns recent news articles announcing funding rounds.

Be honest about what comes back: Brave news-search returns news articles about funding rounds (headline, snippet, source, publish date, URL) — it is not a structured funding database. There is no server-side filtering by exact date range, round type, or deal size; those signals live in the article text. Fold them into the query wording (e.g. a "seed" or "Series A" mention in sector) and extract deal details from the returned articles.

Workflow

1. Install: selat skill install recent-funding-rounds
2. Run: selat skill run recent-funding-rounds --sector "artificial intelligence"
3. The CLI compiles the single step into a selat-pay call, routes it through the SELAT Router (which pays Brave Search via Locus over MPP), and prints a ✓/✗ summary.

Step:

• Step 1 — Brave Search POST /brave/news-search — MPP on Tempo via the SELAT Router. Queries "${sector} startup funding round announced" against Brave's news index; returns recent news articles covering funding announcements in that sector.

To bias toward a round type, include it in sector (e.g. --sector "fintech seed"); news search naturally surfaces recent coverage, so "this week / this month" style asks are served by the recency of the news index rather than an explicit date filter.