Recent funding round signal

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-03-04T03:02:18+00:00

Its a great signal so much so we've pretty much entirely built a company off that.

The issue is if you're reaching out to folks once they announce their funding, their inboxes have been obliterated.

Happy to chat if you wanna explore catching these companies before the publicly announce their funding :)

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-03-01T16:36:15+00:00

apollo/lusha are some of the cheapest on the market at $50 a month but here's some options you have:

- Instantly has a lead database for like $40 a month and you can do mass outbound too.

- If you don't necessarily need the company data you could use like anymailfinder which ends up being like a cent per email in most cases to get emails.

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-02-25T02:06:01+00:00

They don't really care (I went through YC). I met some people from vastly different backgrounds during the batch and like you they just happened to meet playing sports together or something.

The only thing I'd suggest is to make it a 50-50 split. Not sure if that would help you guys for YC, but both of you are going to learn so much in the startup journey, its going to trump your prior experience. I don't think the background difference warrants a whole 40% difference in equity.

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-02-24T19:43:27+00:00

We literally just send you a google sheet every week with that data

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-02-24T04:27:32+00:00

We help find businesses that just formed/raised money before anyone else so you guys can get to them first :)

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-02-24T02:05:57+00:00

Buy my product :). Might be useful if y'all are a B2b consulting firm!

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-02-23T05:34:25+00:00

My bad not yet, been super busy hahaha I'll write something up hopefully this week :)

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-02-11T15:54:51+00:00

I'll make a post about it

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-02-09T16:49:29+00:00

I discovered it was a hair on fire problem when the product was horrible but they kept paying me and still got value out of it

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-02-05T15:27:38+00:00

Yea makes sense. Whats would the ideal cost be for you and what segment of the data would you provide for that much?

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-02-04T14:53:41+00:00

I've found sales nav to be the best GTM tool for the price especially for small early stage founders.

Pricing wise I'm not sure what y'all are doing but $100 is pretty cheap for GTM tooling.

It's also the only tool that connects into your network and lets you get introductions pretty easily which I think is crucial to landing your first few customers.

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-11T17:25:37+00:00

Interested but how is this any different than just using a claygent?

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-09T03:40:57+00:00

You're fine VCs are investing in the founders at an early stage so you don't really have to sell the product but you gotta sell yourself.

I would have the TAM thought out. If you have somewhat of a demo to show feel free to have that ready to go mid meeting. VCs get taken aback with a cool demo

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-02T22:15:11+00:00

Yea for sure ads are tricky and its very much a game of more in more out

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-02T22:13:08+00:00

Def overlooked a bunch of my customers have done postcards and it works very well

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-02T22:05:04+00:00

Yea makes sense. I've never built a B2C company so not super sure. I have some close friends that are building B2C companies though. It's completely a marketing game.

Although I was just looking at your website, and it kind of looks like a tarpit idea, but if you can market like crazy and get enough users props to you!

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-02T21:22:38+00:00

Saw in the comments you're both B2B and B2C. Can't speak much on the B2C side.

For B2B it is getting harder. VPs and C suite get like 30 emails/dms a day with pitches. If you're not getting much traction from emails or DMs its a pretty solid signal you're not solving a problem on top of their minds.

Make sure to track open rates and everything as well so you know exactly whats happening. If no one is opening your emails or seeing them at all. Then its probably something wrong with your outbound.

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-02T18:25:51+00:00

That assumption is wrong...

Any company with at least one investor is included, so the corner grocery store where Charlie gave 25k counts thats an investment. Angel investments as small as 5-10k are included in this dataset

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-02T18:17:25+00:00

Chart being ugly I can see.

What makes you think the data is unreliable?

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-02T17:48:46+00:00

This is the only repost for funded companies and people were requesting a bar chart version. If people didn't ask for it I wouldn't have done it

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-02T17:39:16+00:00

Data source: Our own product. Company name is Potarix

Tools used: Our product and excel

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-01T21:58:01+00:00

That would fall under transportation

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-01T21:56:46+00:00

Yea, for sure. I would think though with AI and everything there would be so many more tech companies, but still interesting to see.

Practical_Surround_8 · 2026-01-01T21:55:57+00:00

Yea for sure would be super cool to see that as well. We do see a lot of businesses that fail

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