Recent Funding Rounds

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.

Inputs And Outputs

Outputs: news-search results — a list of articles, each with title, description/snippet, source, publish age/date, and URL. Company names, round types, and deal sizes must be read out of the article text; the response is news coverage, not structured deal records.

Gotchas

• The MPP-on-Tempo step needs SELAT_ROUTER_URL configured and the router reachable — every step settles through the SELAT Router.
• Live price is $0.03675 per call (probe-verified 2026-07-10); the manifest's $0.40 caps (~10x live) are a ceiling, not the price.
• This is a news search, not a funding database: no date_start/date_end, financing_types, or size_min filters exist. Encode round type or size hints in the query wording and filter results client-side.
• Coverage skews toward rounds that got press; small or unannounced raises may not appear at all.

Validation

--chain base in the probe commands below is only the flag selat-pay requires today — a probe reads a free, chain-independent quote and never settles. A real paid run resolves the settlement chain from your funded Circle Gateway balance, not the manifest.

• Probe without paying (free 402 probe):
  • selat-pay POST "https://brave.mpp.paywithlocus.com/brave/news-search" --body '{"q":"artificial intelligence startup funding round announced"}' --chain base --probe-only
• A successful run prints status=200 and a ✓ summary for the MPP-on-Tempo rail.

References

• manifest.json — the machine-readable payment recipe this skill runs.
• references/endpoints.md — the MPP endpoint this skill calls.
• references/agent-skill-authoring-sop.md — authoring standard.
• selat-pay — https://github.com/SELAT-AI/selat-pay