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VC Portfolio Monitor Agent

Know what's happening across every portfolio company each week, without manually checking a single one.

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The problem it solves

Keeping tabs on a portfolio of 20, 50, or 100+ companies means manually checking news, blogs, and founder social feeds for each one, which nobody has time to do consistently. The companies that quietly go dark are often the ones heading for trouble, and they are the easiest to miss. This agent watches every company every week and surfaces the milestones, risks, and silences that actually warrant a partner's attention.

Who it's for

  • VC partners and principals managing active portfolios
  • Investment associates responsible for portfolio coverage
  • Angel investors tracking 10-50 companies
  • Fund analysts who prepare portfolio and LP updates
  • Solo GPs and micro-fund managers without a research team

What it does

  1. 1

    Load your portfolio

    The agent reads your portfolio list, including each company's name, website, founders, investment date, stage, and sector.

  2. 2

    Sweep every company

    For each company it checks at least three sources: recent news, the company website and blog, and the founders' LinkedIn or Twitter/X activity.

  3. 3

    Classify the signals

    Findings are tagged as Milestone, Team, Press, Risk, or Opportunity so each event has clear meaning and priority.

  4. 4

    Flag what needs attention

    It builds a priority list of companies with risk signals, new funding rounds, threatening competitor raises, or 30+ days of silence.

  5. 5

    Detect companies going dark

    Using a running activity log, it identifies companies with no detectable web, news, or social presence and marks them for direct outreach.

  6. 6

    Build a structured digest

    It assembles a four-section report: Needs Attention, Milestones & Momentum, Quiet, and Dark, with a recommended action for each flagged company.

  7. 7

    Email and archive

    The digest is emailed to your configured recipients, saved to disk, and the activity log is updated so next week's sweep knows what changed.

Key benefits

  • Full portfolio coverage every week with zero manual research
  • Early warning on companies going quiet before bad news surfaces
  • Funding rounds and competitor raises flagged for timely follow-on or intro decisions
  • A consistent, structured digest instead of scattered alerts and forwarded links
  • Recommended next actions attached to every company that needs attention
  • A running activity log that tracks each company's signals over time

Sample use cases

A seed company hasn't posted, shipped, or appeared in the news for over a month.

The agent places it in the Dark section with its last known activity date and recommends you email the founder directly to check in.

A portfolio company quietly closes a new Series A.

The agent flags the round under Needs Attention and prompts a follow-on discussion before the next round terms are set.

A direct competitor to one of your companies raises a large round.

The agent surfaces it as an Opportunity or Risk signal so you can decide whether the portfolio company needs to respond or accelerate.

It's Friday afternoon and you need to know where your attention should go next week.

A digest lands in your inbox summarizing how many companies had activity, which three need attention, and exactly why.

Key integrations

  • Web search

    Sweeps recent news, blog posts, press releases, and social signals across every portfolio company.

  • LinkedIn

    Checks founder profiles for announcements, hires, and activity that often precede company news.

  • Twitter / X

    Monitors founder posts for product launches, fundraising hints, and direction changes.

  • Gmail

    Delivers the weekly digest as a formatted HTML email to your configured recipients.

Strong portfolio support is the other half of venture capital: while deal sourcing fills the top of the funnel, what happens after the wire matters just as much to fund returns. This agent keeps you close to every company you've already backed, so you spot the round to follow, the founder to call, and the company drifting toward trouble while there's still time to help.

Because the agent never manufactures signals, a quiet week reads as quiet and a dark company reads as dark. That honesty is the point: the digest reflects what is actually happening across the portfolio, not a padded summary, so you can trust it to direct your attention each week.

Getting started

  1. Import the workspace — Add the VC Portfolio Monitor template to your Gamut workspace to get the agent and its configuration files.
  2. Run onboarding — Say "run onboarding" and the agent walks you through adding your portfolio companies, setting signal preferences and your silence threshold, and choosing digest recipients and schedule.
  3. Trigger your first sweep — Say "run portfolio sweep" to generate a digest on demand, or let the scheduled Friday run deliver the first one automatically.

Frequently asked questions

Does the agent take any action on its own without my approval?

No. It only researches, classifies signals, and emails you a digest with recommended actions. Decisions like calling a founder, exploring a co-investor intro, or following on stay entirely with you.

Which systems and sources does it work with?

It uses web search for news and blogs, founder activity on LinkedIn and Twitter/X, and Gmail to send the digest. Your portfolio and settings live in simple config files you can edit directly at any time.

How is this different from checking companies manually or using generic alerts?

Generic tools like keyword alerts flag mentions but never tell you when a company goes silent, which is one of the strongest early risk signals. This agent checks at least three sources per company, classifies every finding, and tracks silence over time so nothing slips through the cracks.

How does it detect a company that has gone dark?

It keeps an activity log of each company's last known signal. When a company shows no detectable news, web, or social activity past your silence threshold (30 days by default), it moves to the Dark section and is flagged for direct outreach.

Can it handle a large portfolio?

Yes. It is designed for portfolios ranging from a handful of companies to 100 or more, sweeping each one every week and rolling everything into a single prioritized digest.

How much does it cost to run?

The template itself is free to import into your Gamut workspace. You only pay for the underlying usage when the agent runs its weekly sweep, so ongoing cost scales with portfolio size and sweep frequency.