# Competitor funding and news watch: an agent recipe

Lists new funding rounds and company news events for each competitor, with amount, date and source link.

## Prompt

Use looot to check these ten competitors for new funding rounds and company news events this week, then list each with the amount, date and source link. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Connect my Supabase and create the table competitor_funding. 3. Upsert on a natural key and never overwrite my edits. 4. Store source, endpoint, cost and fetched_at on every row. 5. Show any price over one cent first and stop at my daily budget. 6. On a re-run, write only what changed. 7. Report rows added, rows changed and total cost.

## Steps and providers

- List funding rounds: predictleads. 1 lookup per competitor.
- List company news events: predictleads. 1 lookup per competitor.

## Memory and schedule

The prompt writes rows to your own Supabase.

This recipe needs scheduled runs, not available yet. Run it by hand.

## Can an AI agent watch competitor funding and news?

Yes. The agent runs 2 steps through looot: list funding rounds, then list company news events. You give it the prompt on this page and the inputs.

## How do I watch competitor funding and news with looot?

Paste the prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoint for each step, checks the price and runs the cheapest one that fits. Edit the names and numbers first.

## How much does it cost to watch competitor funding and news?

You pay per call, and the price depends on the provider the agent picks. The web version of this page reads the cheapest price for each step live from the catalog and shows the cost per 1,000 competitors when every step is priced.

## Which providers can watch competitor funding and news?

The providers behind this recipe are predictleads. The catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it.

## Can I watch competitor funding and news on a schedule?

This recipe is a watch and needs scheduled runs, which are not available yet. You can run it by hand whenever you want, and the agent will report what changed.

## Where does the data go when I watch competitor funding and news?

The prompt tells your agent to write one row per result to your own Supabase project, with the source, the endpoint, the cost and the time. looot returns the data and bills the call. It does not store your rows.

## What can looot not do when I watch competitor funding and news?

looot returns data and does not do SEC filing checks. Your agent needs another tool for that part.

## Related recipes

- /recipes/competitor-news-alerts
- /recipes/market-map-of-a-category
- /recipes/hiring-signal-watch
- /recipes/competitor-tech-and-product-change-watch

## Last reviewed

2026-10-19. The cost per 1,000 runs is read live from the catalog on the web page.

## Agent skill for this page

https://looot.ai/recipes/competitor-funding-and-news-watch/skill.md sets an agent up for exactly the jobs on this page, with the live price of each, and offers the page's starter task once the user has picked a job and seen the price. The line to give an agent is under "Give this to your agent" below.

## For agents

### Give this to your agent

```text
set up looot for the Competitor funding and news watch recipe - https://looot.ai/recipes/competitor-funding-and-news-watch/skill.md
```