The Startup Scout watchlist: young AI companies tracked as acquisition candidates, organized by vertical, with what each builds and the AI technology itself.
Only tracked companies are included. The review funnel, the scoring agent's advisory verdicts and scores, review notes, and dossiers never enter a dataset. Facts come from discovery, homepage enrichment, and hand edits; web-sourced facts can be imprecise.
| Column | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| company_id | text | Stable UUID; the profile URL is /scout/<id>. |
| name | text | Company name. |
| domain | text | Bare homepage host, when known. |
| url | text | Homepage URL, when known. |
| vertical | text | The acquisition-thesis vertical the company is filed under. |
| vertical_name | text | Display name of the vertical. |
| one_liner | longtext | What the company builds, in one sentence. |
| ai_tech | longtext | The AI technology itself, as concretely as sources allow. |
| stage | enum | pre_seed, seed, series_a, series_b, later, or unknown. |
| founded_year | number | Founding year, when reported. |
| funding_note | text | Latest reported round, free text. |
| hq | text | Headquarters, when reported. |
| origin | enum | discovery (found by the web sweep) or manual (added by hand). |
| tracked_since | date | When the company cleared review onto the watchlist (YYYY-MM-DD). |
| event_count | number | Timeline events logged for the company. |