screen_must_raise
Screen Companies That Must Raise Capital
What it does
Find companies with imminent capital raise needs based on estimated cash runway. Defaults to companies with less than 6 months of cash remaining, sorted by urgency (lowest runway first). Useful for identifying distressed companies, imminent dilution situations, or potential financing catalysts. Runway is estimated from current burn rate.
Companies whose ESTIMATED cash is already exhausted are included by default and listed first: they carry cash_runway_months null with cashRunwayReason "estimate_would_be_negative" (the last cash figure, dated cashRunwayAsOf, rolled forward by the burn rate is below zero today).
That is an estimate from a dated balance, never a reported zero balance — say "estimated exhausted as of today, last cash figure <cashRunwayAsOf>", not "has no cash". Rows also carry estimatedCurrentCash / estimatedCashAsOf (dilution-snapshot cash projection; null = not measured) and listingMarket.
Ask your AI
With the Signal8 MCP server connected, your assistant calls this tool when a question needs it. For example:
Using Signal8, find companies with imminent capital raise needs based on estimated cash runway.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
maxMonthsoptional | number | Maximum months of cash runway to filter by (default: 6) |
includeExhaustedoptional | boolean | Include companies whose estimated cash is already exhausted (default: true) |
marketoptional | "exchange" | "otc" | Listing market: "otc" (OTC Markets) or "exchange" (NASDAQ / NYSE / NYSE American / Arca / Cboe) |
industryoptional | string | Filter by company industry (exact match, e.g. "Biotechnology", "Software") |
limitoptional | number | Maximum results to return (default: 25, max: 100) |
offsetoptional | number | Offset for pagination (default: 0) |
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