Company News Monitoring on Autopilot
Track public and private companies across media and official channels, summarized and delivered to your inbox.
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Stop limiting your visibility to public markets. Distill provides complete coverage of any company, from private startups and niche players to international targets, all without needing a ticker symbol. Get the coverage essential for your portfolio, competitive strategy, and M&A pipeline.
One feed, the complete picture
Stop hunting across press releases, blogs, and media. Distill unifies third-party media coverage and a company's own announcements, from official channels to LinkedIn posts, into a single feed. You get the complete picture without the hunt.
Intelligence, not just noise
Stop drowning in updates. Start finding signal. Having access to news isn't the problem; drowning in it is. Distill is built to be the antidote to information overload, turning scattered news into structured insight. Use powerful filters to tune out minor updates, focus on significant developments, and make decisions based on pure signal.
Insights delivered on autopilot
Stop pulling information. Have it pushed to you. Staying informed shouldn't be a task you have to remember. Distill delivers the right insights to you automatically, right where you work: in the app, your email, or Slack. Stay a step ahead with daily or weekly recaps, industry summaries, and real-time alerts.
Effortlessly stay on top of all companies and industries that matter to you
Features
Intelligence at your fingertips
- Personal news feed
- Get full coverage of all the companies that matter to you
- Company news recaps
- Get daily or weekly recaps of the biggest news sent to your inbox
- Automatic summaries
- Receive weekly news summaries of the companies you follow
- Instant notifications
- Be alerted by email when important company news occurs
- Company profiles
- Access extensive background information and insights
- Activity summaries
- Get summaries of any company's latest news and developments
- Slack integration
- Get updates on the companies you follow sent directly to Slack
- Optimized for mobile
- Access everything you need whether on desktop or mobile
Solutions
Finance
Private Equity (PE)
Monitor portfolio companies, deal targets, and industry trends
- Unified company tracking: Track portfolio companies, deal targets, and key sectors with a personal news feed
- Automated news updates: Receive company news recaps and industry summaries straight to your inbox
- Competitive positioning analysis: Compare portfolio companies and deal targets with company profiles and competitor lists
- Roll-up target identification: Identify potential roll-up opportunities by monitoring news across multiple companies in a sector
Venture Capital (VC)
Oversee companies and bring more than capital to your investments
- Unified company tracking: Monitor all portfolio companies and deal flow with your personal news feed – on desktop or mobile
- Company news updates: Receive daily news recaps covering funding rounds, product updates, key hires, and more
- Industry trend updates: Receive automatic industry summaries that highlight the biggest news and developments
- Competitive intelligence: Share the insights from Distill with your companies to bring more than capital to the table
Hedge Funds
Access real-time insights on key positions that others miss
- Positions monitoring: Track key holdings with your personal news feed of both company announcements and media articles
- Real-time notifications: Receive immediate alerts on important company events and news stories
- Industry insights: Receive industry summaries and review companies' recent activity to quickly gauge market movements
- Competitive mapping: Use competitor lists to analyze market dynamics and compare similar companies
Portfolio Managers
Monitor investments and stay informed on market developments
- Investment tracking: Monitor all your holdings and targets with a unified personal news feed
- Instant notifications: Receive immediate alerts on significant company updates and news stories
- Quick company insights: Access concise company profiles that provide essential background details
Investment Banking
Strengthen client relationships and win pitches with better data
- Market research support: Get the complete picture of any company or market and build stronger pitches
- Competitive landscape analysis: Use competitor lists to map the market and compare target companies
- Strengthen client relationships: Receive instant notifications on critical company updates to share with clients
Equity Research
Gain a complete view of any company, no matter its size or sector
- Company monitoring: Track any company using your personal news feed that aggregates all relevant news
- Detailed company profiles: Access profiles providing key background details such as size, country, offering, and customers
- Automated summaries: Get and review automated summaries to understand recent developments and market movements
Consulting
Management Consulting
Enhance analyses and recommendations with better data
- Company monitoring: Track all companies or clients of interest with a personal news feed
- Automated insights: Receive daily company news recaps and weekly industry summaries to become the subject matter expert
- Strengthen client relationships: Receive instant notifications on critical company updates to share with clients
Strategy Consulting
Accelerate DDs with detailed company profiles and competitor lists
- Detailed company profiles: Access profiles that include company size, country, offering, customers, and more
- Activity overviews: Review activity summaries to evaluate recent company developments
- Competitor lists: Use competitor lists to compare companies and assess competitive dynamics
- Industry summaries: Get automatic summaries to stay updated on any industry
Media & Communications
News Outlets
Automatically track the companies relevant to your audience
- Personal news feed: Get a personal news feed with the news and announcements for all companies relevant to your audience
- Real-time notifications: Get instant notifications on major company updates and news stories
- Detailed profiles: Access company profiles that add context to your reporting
Public Relations (PR)
Monitor clients, their competitors, and market activity
- Client and competitor news: Get summaries of announcements and media mentions across your clients and their competitors.
- Complete coverage, every language: See every piece of media mentioning your client, with automatic translations of foreign coverage.
- Messaging intelligence: Analyze how competitors and peers communicate to refine positioning and strengthen client narratives.
Investor Relations (IR)
Stay updated with the latest company and industry developments
- Market update alerts: Receive instant notifications on significant company and industry news
- Industry summaries: Get automatic industry summaries to understand market trends and pre-empt investor queries
- News recaps: Use company news recaps to stay informed about competitor and market developments
Enterprises & Startups
Enterprises
Strengthen strategy and positioning with full market oversight
- Competitive analysis: Monitor competitor news and activity with your personal news feed
- Instant notifications: Receive real-time alerts on significant competitor and industry updates
- Activity summaries: Review company activity summaries to guide your strategy and decision-making
- M&A target monitoring: Track potential targets to know who and when to approach
Startups
Stay updated with insights on competitor moves and market trends
- Competitor monitoring: Track competitor news and updates via your personal news feed
- Daily news recaps: Receive daily recaps on competitors' funding rounds, product updates, strategic hires, and more
- Instant notifications: Get immediate alerts on significant market and company updates
Instantly get the news and insights that matter, sent straight to your inbox
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Which companies can I monitor with Distill?
You can track any company, globally, regardless of whether they are public or private. Unlike traditional finance tools that rely on stock ticker symbols, Distill allows you to track early-stage startups, private companies, and niche international players just as easily as Fortune 500 companies. If the company exists and has a website, Distill can track it.
What sources does Distill track?
Distill provides a complete picture by combining media coverage with official company sources. We monitor:
- Major media outlets and trusted industry news sites.
- Local and regional news publications.
- Official company channels, including press releases, blogs, and investor relations pages.
- Medium and Substack feeds.
- LinkedIn company posts to catch product launches and leadership updates often missed by the press.
How is Distill different from Google Alerts?
Google Alerts provides a raw list of links, often resulting in cluttered inboxes and repetitive headlines. Distill is an intelligence engine. It uses AI to:
- Group sources: If a story is covered by 20 outlets, we group them into a single card so you don't read the same headline 20 times.
- Summarize insights: We extract the key facts from both the media coverage and the official announcement.
- Filter noise: We automatically filter out low-value opinion pieces and duplicates.
Does Distill support international or non-English news?
Yes. You can track companies in any country. If a story breaks in a local language (e.g., Japanese, Swedish, or Portuguese), Distill automatically translates the article and summary into English. This allows you to monitor global competitors or international markets without a language barrier.
How does Distill prevent information overload?
We know that "more news" isn't always better. Distill gives you three layers of control to keep your feed clean:
- Significance filters: You can toggle your feed to show "All News," "Notable News," or only "Major News" (high-impact events).
- Topic filters: You can set specific monitors for topics like "M&A," "Product launches," or "Executive changes" while ignoring the rest.
- Source blocking: If you dislike a specific publication, you can block it entirely from your feed and summaries.
Can I monitor an entire industry without selecting individual companies?
Yes. In addition to tracking specific company watchlists, you can follow broad industry groups (e.g., Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy). You can receive weekly emails summarizing the biggest events from that industry.
How will I receive updates? Do I need to log in daily?
You do not need to log in to stay informed. Distill delivers insights where you already work:
- Daily recaps: Emails listing all the latest news from the companies you track.
- Weekly summaries: Emails summarizing the biggest events from the past week from the companies and sectors you follow.
- Real-time alerts: For critical updates on high-priority companies.
- Slack integration: Get real-time updates from the companies you follow directly in Slack.
Can I use Distill to track my competitors' social media activity?
Yes. Distill specifically monitors LinkedIn company posts. Companies often share their fastest updates on LinkedIn before a press release goes out, such as new hires, minor product updates, or partnerships. Distill captures these and presents them alongside traditional news.
Does Distill offer a free trial?
Yes. Distill offers a 14-day free trial so you can set up your watchlists, configure your filters, and see the difference between a standard news feed and a curated intelligence feed. Just add the companies you want to track, and you're up and running in minutes.
Distill also offers free Weekly Briefings on the biggest topics in tech, which you can get delivered to your inbox every Friday. No setup or credit card required.