uk startup funding digest
i use this as a daily discovery feed — early-stage funding is often the signal to reach out about a role.
the problem
tracking early-stage uk startup funding requires reading dozens of sources daily. most tools cover too broadly — us-heavy, all stages — or require expensive subscriptions. there was no lightweight, uk-specific, early-stage-only pipeline.
the approach
- 01 fetch
uk startup news sources run in parallel, pulling articles published in the last 24 hours.
- 02 extract
claude reads each article and identifies early-stage funding announcements, pulling structured data: company name, amount, stage, lead investors, and source url.
- 03 deduplicate
a composite key prevents the same funding round appearing twice when reported across multiple outlets. same round, different source — one row.
- 04 log
confirmed funding events write to google sheets. one clean row per round, ready to act on.
the workflow
