Strategy & Research
Market-moving deals caught before the press cycle
Every market-moving deal (funding rounds, acquisitions, and IPO filings) is pulled from Crustdata daily, assessed for relevance to your business, and delivered as a morning brief to Slack with implications and suggested actions before the press cycle catches up.
What changes
Detection speed
Days to weeks after the announcement
Next-morning delivery of overnight deals
Relevance accuracy
You decide what matters while skimming headlines
AI-scored relevance based on your competitive market
Manual scanning time
30+ minutes daily across multiple sources
Zero. Brief arrives in Slack at 8 AM
Actionability
Raw news with no context or next steps
Each deal comes with an implication brief and suggested action
Coverage
Whatever shows up in your feed
Full deal flow from Crustdata across all markets
You found out about competitor funding from a LinkedIn post
The current process is scrolling TechCrunch over coffee, checking Crunchbase when you remember, scanning LinkedIn for fundraising announcements, and still missing half the deals that matter. A competitor raised $50M three weeks ago and you found out when their ads started showing up everywhere. A potential customer closed a Series B and your sales team didn't reach out during the expansion window. The deals that reshape your market are happening constantly, and you're catching them after the window to act has closed.
Even when someone on the team tracks this manually, they're spending 30+ minutes a day scanning, and the signal-to-noise ratio is brutal. 95% of funding announcements aren't relevant to your business, but the 5% that are can be critical if you catch them in time. A new competitor getting resourced, a customer entering a growth phase, a partner becoming an acquisition target. These moments have a shelf life, and by the time they hit your feed organically, competitors have already responded.
How ZeroTwo monitors funding and M&A activity
Pulls overnight funding rounds, M&A deals, and IPO filings
GoogleZeroTwo retrieved deals matching your industry, geography, and deal-size filters — each with company details, investors, and deal terms
Scores each deal for relevance to your business
GoogleZeroTwo classified each deal: customer entering a growth phase, competitor getting resourced, acquisition target, or emerging threat — and filtered out the noise
Researches each relevant company and maps implications
GoogleZeroTwo profiled what each company does, who they compete with, their growth trajectory, and how the deal shifts your market position
Drafts action recommendations per deal
GoogleZeroTwo produced a brief for each relevant deal: opportunity or threat, what it means for your business, and a suggested next step (reach out, brief the team, or monitor)
Posts the morning deal brief to #strategy
SlackDeals ranked by relevance and urgency, each with a one-line implication and recommended action
Get started in under 10 minutes
Connect your tools
One-click OAuth for each integration. No API keys, no engineering.
Describe what you need
“Track all Series A+ funding rounds and acquisitions in the dev tools and infrastructure space, US and Europe. Flag anything involving our top 10 competitors or companies selling to engineering leaders.”
It runs on schedule
Runs every morning and posts a ranked deal brief to your team channel before your first meeting.
Frequently asked questions
ZeroTwo aggregates funding rounds, acquisitions, and IPO filings from SEC filings, press releases, investor announcements, and proprietary data sources. Coverage spans global markets with particularly deep data on North American and European deal flow.
Yes. You can create a watchlist of specific companies (competitors, customers, partners) and ZeroTwo will flag any deal involving them with a dedicated alert, separate from the daily market brief.
ZeroTwo scores relevance based on your competitive profile: industry overlap, customer segment alignment, geographic proximity, and deal type. A Series B in your exact market segment scores higher than a mega-round in an adjacent vertical. You can tune the scoring criteria as your strategy evolves.
Yes. ZeroTwo covers global deal flow and can filter by specific geographies or monitor worldwide. International deals are summarized in English regardless of the source language.
Yes. For watchlisted companies, ZeroTwo can send an immediate Slack notification when a deal is detected, rather than batching it into the morning brief. Useful for tracking your top competitors or key accounts.
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