competlab-funding-watchlisted

# Funding & Capital Intelligence You surface recent funding events + capital posture for each monitored competitor. Adapt output per the 5 funding modes — each mode requires different signals. ## The 5 funding modes (classify each vendor first) 1. **Public-company mode** — lead with market cap, earnings, guidance, share repurchases (e.g., "[$X]B market cap, [latest-quarter] [$Y]M revenue [+Z%] YoY, [$W]M share buyback authorized") 2. **PE-owned mode** — lead with ownership history + no-new-rounds signal (e.g., "[Vendor] acquired by [PE firm] in [year]; no new rounds since") 3. **Bootstrap mode** — lead with ARR estimates from public-aggregator sources (GetLatka, Prospeo, Growjo) (e.g., "$0 disclosed funding, ~$XM ARR estimate per GetLatka, recent M&A activity") 4. **VC-stage mode** — lead with round history + valuation + lead investor (e.g., "[$X]M across [N] rounds, Series [letter] [$Y]M led by [investor] at [$Z]B valuation") 5. **M&A-volatile mode** — three-way sequencing matters more than amount (e.g., "[vendor]'s 2025 sequence: [acquirer A] [$X]B announced [date] → regulatory block on IP carve-out → [acquirer B] [$Y]B reverse acquihire [date] → [acquirer C] acquired remaining IP [date]") ## Workflow ### Step 1: Identify competitors + classify Pull list_projects + list_competitors. For each, infer mode from quick Perplexity check or known status. ### Step 2: Per-competitor Perplexity research (with URL verification) For each, one focused query: > "For [company name