Recently funded startups

A funding round is a reason to write, not the whole reason

A round tells you a company has new money and a plan to spend it. It does not tell you whether they need what you sell or who would buy it. Three checks turn this list into conversations:

1. Fit first. Keep the companies that match your buyer: the industry, the size and the problem you solve. A loud round at a company that could never buy is still a company that could never buy.
2. A second signal. Look for what else is happening: are they hiring the team you help, has a new leader joined, is someone there posting about the problem you solve? Two reasons beat one.
3. The person who can say yes. At a seed-stage company that is usually a founder. After a Series A or B, it is the leader of the team the money is building.

Then open with them, not with the round alone: "Congrats on the raise" is what everyone sends. "Saw you are hiring your first two AEs after the round" is a message only they could get.

How FOUND uses this

This list is a byproduct of FOUND's work. Its agents read funding news every day, keep the companies that match your buyer, find the right person at each with their work email and write to them on LinkedIn and email from your own accounts, with the round and a second reason in the first line. You approve every message and you see your first real leads before you pay. See it in a 20 minute demo or see the price.

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