We built this for Arthur. It felt selfish to keep it.
Scout , Raise and Wire by Fusion 42
For the past year we’ve been building Arthur - a startup operating system that works alongside founders as your co-founder, shaping your company on live intelligence rather than gut feel and stale advice. Part of that intelligence is pure market signal: who just got funded, who’s deploying fresh capital, what changed overnight - localised to your geography, personalised to your news type and sector.
We built that signal layer for Arthur. Then we realised it was too useful to keep private.
So we’re releasing it. Three products, free to every founder.
Scout - know who just got funded
Newly funded startups, pre-seed to Series B, as the rounds happen.
Every round in your space is intelligence. A competitor raising £8m tells you what investors are paying for. A fund backing three companies adjacent to yours tells you exactly who to email next.
Raise - know who’s deploying
New fund announcements: fresh capital, mandate, cheque size, focus.
A fund that closed eighteen months ago is a very different conversation to one that closed last month. New funds need to write cheques. Raise tells you who’s sitting on fresh powder - so you stop cold-emailing funds that finished deploying in 2024.
And watch for the next update: we're adding the investors behind every new raise in Scout.
Wire - know what changed, know what matters
The global intelligence feed, filtered hard, with the “so what” attached.
Every story carries The Wire Takeaway - not “Samsung raises foundry prices” but “your wafer costs just went up 10-15%, call your suppliers this week. Filter by News type, sector, region to get fully personalised and localised news. Weekly reports roll it up so you can skim Monday morning and get back to building.
Reading everything is a full-time job. You already have one.
Where this goes
These feeds are one part of what Arthur runs on. Combined with what Arthur knows about your company - your stage, your traction, your gaps - raw signal becomes something sharper: which investors to approach this month, which shift to act on, which assumption someone else’s round just invalidated.
You’ll hear much more about Arthur soon. For now, this layer is yours.
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