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Weekly Deal Flow Digest

Generate an analyst-quality single-slide PowerPoint that summarizes key takeaways from recent funding rounds across watched sectors or companies, using S&P Global Capital IQ data. Each deal links back to its Capital IQ profile for quick drill-down.

When to Use

Trigger on any of these patterns:

• "Give me a deal flow digest for this week"
• "Weekly funding recap for [sector]"
• "What deals closed in [sector/companies] recently?"
• "Transaction roundup" or "deal roundup"
• "Capital markets update for my coverage universe"
• "Summarize recent funding activity"
• Any periodic briefing request about deals, raises, or rounds

Nested Skills

This skill produces a one-slide PPTX briefing:

• Read /mnt/skills/public/pptx/SKILL.md before generating the PowerPoint (and its sub-reference pptxgenjs.md for creating from scratch)

Entity Resolution & Tool Robustness

S&P Global's identifier system resolves company names to legal entities. This works well for most companies but has known failure modes that cause empty results. Apply these rules throughout the workflow to avoid silent data loss.

Rule 0: Pre-validate ALL identifiers before querying funding

Before calling any funding tools, run every identifier through get_info_from_identifiers. This is the cheapest and most reliable way to catch problems early. Check two things in the response:

1. Did it resolve at all? If the identifier returns empty/error, the name doesn't exist in S&P Global. Try the alias from references/sector-seeds.md, the legal entity name, or the company_id directly.
2. What is the status field?
   • "Operating" → Safe to query for funding rounds.
   • "Operating Subsidiary" → The company exists but is owned by a parent. It will return zero funding rounds. Note this in the digest as context (e.g., "acquired by [Parent]") but do not query for funding.
   • Any other status (e.g., closed, inactive) → The company is no longer operating. Historical data may exist but no new activity.

This single pre-validation step prevents the majority of empty-result issues. Batch all candidates into a single get_info_from_identifiers call (it handles large batches well) and triage before proceeding.

Rule 1: Never trust empty results without a fallback

If get_rounds_of_funding_from_identifiers returns empty for a company you expect to have data:

1. Try the legal entity name or company_id. Brand names usually work, but some don't. See the alias table in references/sector-seeds.md for known mismatches. Common pattern: "[Brand] AI" → "[Legal Name], Inc." (e.g., Together AI → "Together Computer, Inc.", Character.ai → "Character Technologies, Inc.", Runway ML → "Runway AI, Inc.").
2. Verify the company exists in S&P. If you skipped Rule 0, call get_info_from_identifiers(identifiers=["Company"]) now — if this also returns empty, the company may be too early-stage or not yet indexed.

Rule 2: Subsidiaries have no funding rounds

Companies that are divisions or wholly-owned subsidiaries of larger companies (e.g., DeepMind under Alphabet, GitHub under Microsoft, BeReal under Voodoo) will return zero funding rounds. Their capital events are tracked at the parent level.

How to detect: The status field from get_info_from_identifiers will show "Operating Subsidiary". The references/sector-seeds.md file also flags known subsidiaries with ⚠️ warnings. Skip these for funding queries.

Rule 3: Use get_rounds_of_funding_from_identifiers as the primary tool, not get_funding_summary_from_identifiers

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