Portfolio news for venture funds
Every story about your portfolio, checked at the source and ready to post.
Trotline sweeps the news for every company you've backed. It opens each story at its source, checks the facts, and drafts it for your news page and LP updates. You approve what goes out.
Tested against a fund's own news page
Seven stories on the page. Fifty-four in the news.
We ran Trotline over a 57-company defense and deep-tech portfolio for October 7 to 28, 2026, then compared it with the stories the fund had posted itself.
| Measure | Fund's news page | Trotline |
|---|---|---|
| Stories | 7 | 54 |
| Companies with news | 7 of 57 | 30 of 57 |
| Stories the other one missed | 47 | 0 |
Some of the stories the page missed
- Production dealA seven-year missile parts agreement with a defense prime
- ContractA $75 million Missile Defense Agency award to finish interceptor flight tests
- FundingA $150 million-plus Series D at a valuation above $1.4 billion
- IntegrationA hypersonic missile headed for Air Force F-16s
- FundingA $200 million company launch backed by Sequoia and In-Q-Tel
- ValuationA share sale valuing one company about 50% above the fund's own ticker
Company names are withheld. Every story above was opened and checked at its source, and the fund's 7 stories were all among the 54.
How it works
From the news to your news page in four steps
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Sweep
Each week Trotline checks every portfolio company's newsroom, wire releases, and trade and major press, including stories that only mention a company in passing.
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Verify
Every story is opened at its source. Dates come from the page, and dollar figures are copied exactly. Same-name companies are filtered out. Before anything ships, random stories are re-checked and a 12-point quality gate signs off.
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Approve
Your private dashboard lists the week's stories. Approve or skip each one. Bad press goes to a separate risk list for you, never to a public draft.
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Publish
Copy approved stories straight into your news page in the format it already uses, with drafts ready for LP letters and social posts.
What you get each week
One place for everything your portfolio did
News-page entries
Headline, outlet, date and link, in your site's own format.
LP update drafts
Two or three plain sentences per milestone, facts from the source only.
Risk watch
Critical coverage of a portfolio company, flagged privately the week it runs.
Valuation watch
New valuations compared with the figures you publish, so stale numbers get caught.
Fund mentions
Every story that names your fund, ready to share.
A scorecard
What your page already had, what it missed, and why.
Trotline uses AI to find and summarize news. Every story links to its source; check the facts before relying on them.
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