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Build a weekly list of newly funded startups with Alion and Data Tables

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Last update 7 hours ago

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Quick overview

This workflow runs every Monday and queries Alion’s open MCP endpoint for recently funded startups matching your market criteria, then deduplicates results and saves new companies into an n8n Data Table with funding and hiring details.

How it works

  1. Runs every Monday at 08:00 on a schedule.
  2. Sets the target market filters such as country, industry, funding stages, time window, and maximum results.
  3. Creates an n8n Data Table (if it doesn’t already exist) to store startup details.
  4. Searches Alion via its open MCP endpoint for startups with recent funding announcements based on the configured filters.
  5. Splits the search response into one item per startup.
  6. Checks each startup’s domain against the n8n Data Table and inserts only startups that are not already saved.

Setup

  1. Update the market parameters (country, industry, funding stages, raised_since, and max_results) in the configuration step.
  2. Confirm or change the n8n Data Table name used to store results. The workflow creates the table on its first run, so no manual table setup is needed.
  3. Execute the workflow once to create the table and verify rows are being added, then activate it to run weekly.

Requirements

  • n8n 2.x with Data Tables (n8n Cloud or self-hosted). No Alion account or API key: the open MCP address is free within 300 calls a day per network and 20 companies per search.

Customization

  • Add Slack, Gmail or Google Sheets after 'Save new startups' to get a weekly digest of the new names, or widen the search with comma-separated funding stages or industries in 'Configure your market'.