Find Series A and B companies from the last 30 days

Example outputs in this play are illustrative — they reflect the structure, fields, and format of real Lusha connector output, but were not pulled from a live session. Run the prompt with your own ICP and connectors to see live results. Personal details in any live examples are masked or abbreviated for privacy.

The 30 days after a funding round closes are the most active buying period in a company’s lifecycle. Headcount plans get approved, tool evaluations start, and the team builds the stack they’re going to scale on. Every vendor who reaches out in this window arrives before the decisions get made. Every vendor who waits until month three arrives after them. This Claude prompt uses Lusha to find every Series A and Series B that closed in the last 30 days and matches your ICP — verifies the right contact at each account, checks for stacked signals, and gives you a reason to reach out before the budget gets allocated.

The prompt

<context>
I want to find Series A and Series B companies that closed
their funding round in the last 30 days and match my ICP.
These companies have fresh budget, active headcount plans,
and open vendor evaluations — I want to reach them before
the decisions get made.

My ICP: [describe your ideal customer — industry, company
size, geography]

Funding stages to target: [Series A / Series B / both]

My product: [one sentence — what you sell and the problem
it solves]

My target buyer: [e.g. VP of Sales, Head of RevOps, CFO]
</context>

<task>
1. FUNDING SIGNAL SCAN — Use Lusha to find companies
   that closed a Series A or Series B in the last
   30 days:
   - Filter by funding stage as specified
   - Return all matching companies before ICP filtering
   - Include round amount and lead investors where
     available

2. ICP SCORING — For each recently funded company,
   score against my ICP:
   - Firmographic fit: industry, size, geography
   - Remove companies that fail must-have criteria
   - Score remaining: Strong fit / Moderate fit

3. STACKED SIGNAL CHECK — For each ICP-fit company,
   check for additional signals that strengthen
   the case:
   - New executive hire in the buying function
     since the round closed
   - Hiring surge in sales, RevOps, or the target
     function — headcount growth post-funding
   - Intent signals on relevant topics above
     score 60
   - Tech stack changes indicating active tool
     evaluation
   - Flag companies with 2+ stacked signals as
     highest priority

4. CONTACT VERIFICATION — For each final account,
   verify the right contact via Lusha:
   - Current title and tenure confirmed
   - Verified email and direct dial
   - Flag recent hires — tenure under 6 months
     means they joined post-funding and are
     building their stack from scratch
   - Flag if no VP+ contact found in Lusha —
     note as data gap

5. RANKED OUTPUT — Return accounts ranked by signal
   strength and ICP fit. For each account:
   - Funding round details: stage, amount, date,
     lead investors
   - ICP fit score
   - Stacked signals if present
   - Verified contact with email and direct dial
   - One-line outreach angle tied to the funding
     round and your product's value at this
     stage of growth
</task>

What you'll get back

Series A and B companies that closed in the last 30 days, filtered against your ICP, ranked by signal strength — each one with verified contact details and an outreach angle built around the specific moment they’re in right now.

Funding events in last 30 days: 38  ·  ICP-fit after scoring: 12  ·  High priority (stacked signals): 4  ·  Contacts verified: 11

High priority — stacked signals

These accounts closed a round in the last 30 days, match your ICP, and have additional signals firing. The buying window is open right now.

CompanyStageAmountDays since closeICP fitStacked signals
[Company A]Series B$22M11 daysStrongNew VP Sales + 8 SDR roles
[Company B]Series A$9M18 daysStrongNew CRO + intent score 77
[Company C]Series B$35M8 daysStrongHeadcount up 22% + RevOps hiring
[Company D]Series A$7M24 daysStrongNew VP Sales + Salesforce adopted

[Company A] — full detail

Funding details

FieldValue
StageSeries B
Amount$22M
Close date[date] — 11 days ago
Lead investors[Investor A], [Investor B]
Total raised$31M
IndustryRevenue Intelligence / SaaS
Employees180–220
HQAustin, TX

Stacked signals

SignalTypeDate
New VP of Sales joinedExecutive move[date]
8 SDR roles postedHiring surge[date]
Sales prospecting tools — intent score 74Intent signal[date]

Verified contact

FieldValue
NameR.M.
TitleVP of Sales
Tenure3 weeks ⚑ joined post-funding
Emailr.m@[company].com
Direct dial+1 512 555 ••••

Contact confirmed live via Lusha connector, [date]

Outreach angle: Series B closed 11 days ago, new VP of Sales joined last week, 8 SDR roles already posted. They’re building the outbound motion right now — every tool decision is being made in real time. Lead with how fast companies at this stage can get a verified data layer under the new SDR team. The window is days, not weeks.


ICP-fit accounts — funding signal only

These accounts closed a round in the last 30 days and match your ICP. No stacked signals yet — the buildout is earlier stage. Reach out within the next two weeks before the initial vendor decisions close.

CompanyStageAmountDays since closeICP fitContact
[Company E]Series B$18M19 daysStrong✓ VP Sales verified
[Company F]Series A$6M22 daysStrong✓ Head of RevOps verified
[Company G]Series B$28M14 daysStrong✓ CRO verified
[Company H]Series A$8M27 daysModerate⚠ No VP+ contact found
[Company I]Series B$15M29 daysStrong✓ VP Sales verified
[Company J]Series A$5M21 daysModerate✓ VP Sales verified
[Company K]Series B$32M16 daysStrong✓ CRO verified
[Company L]Series A$11M25 daysStrong✓ Head of Sales verified

Filtered out: 26 companies showed a funding signal but did not meet ICP criteria — wrong industry, outside size range, or geography exclusion applied.

Data gap: [Company H] — Series A, strong funding signal, moderate ICP fit, but no VP+ contact found in Lusha. Run the Buying Group play to identify the right contact before outreach.

Example outputs in this play are illustrative — they reflect the structure, fields, and format of real Lusha connector output, but were not pulled from a live session. Run the prompt with your own ICP and connectors to see live results.

Built by: Lusha
Time to build: 1 min
Tools: Claude, Lusha
Type: Prompt

Why use Lusha in Claude

The 30 days after a funding round closes are unlike any other period in a company’s lifecycle. The board approved a headcount plan. The leadership team is executing against it. Tools are being evaluated, vendors are being selected, and the stack the company is going to scale on is being built right now. Every vendor who reaches the right person in this window arrives before the decisions get made. Every vendor who waits until month three arrives after them.

Lusha tracks funding events as named, verified, time-stamped signals — confirmed across multiple independent sources, not scraped from a press release or inferred from a LinkedIn update. The close date is what makes this play work. A Series B that closed 11 days ago is a fundamentally different conversation than one that closed 11 months ago. The money is fresh, the mandate is active, and the team is in motion. Lusha’s 1.2B+ data points processed daily surface these events in real time — which means you find them in week two, not in week twelve when most of your competitors have already had the conversation.

The stacked signal check adds the layer that separates urgency from interest. A funding round alone is a reason to reach out. A funding round combined with a new VP of Sales who joined last week, eight SDR roles already posted, and an intent signal on your category is a reason to call today. The company isn’t just capitalized — it’s actively building. The vendor window is measured in days, not weeks.

The contact verification step surfaces the dynamic that makes post-funding accounts particularly valuable. A VP of Sales who joined three weeks after the round closed is building their stack from scratch — no inherited preferences, no legacy vendor relationships, no institutional memory of why the previous team made the tool choices they made. That’s a cleaner conversation than any cold outreach you’ll ever send to an established account.

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FAQ

  • How accurate is the funding close date?

    Lusha’s funding signals are verified across multiple independent sources and time-stamped to the confirmed close date — not the press release date, which can lag the actual close by days or weeks. For most Series A and B rounds, the signal appears in Lusha’s database within a few days of the close being confirmed. The “days since close” figure in the output reflects the verified close date, not when the news broke publicly, so the timing is as accurate as the underlying data allows.

  • Should I target Series A, Series B, or both?

    Depends on your ICP and your typical deal profile. Series A companies are earlier stage — smaller teams, tighter budgets, more founder-led decisions. The conversation is often with the founder or first sales hire rather than a VP of Sales. Series B companies have usually found product-market fit and are scaling deliberately — dedicated sales leadership, RevOps function being built, more structured vendor evaluation process. If your product sells best to companies with 50 to 200 employees and a dedicated sales team, Series B is the stronger signal. If you sell to earlier-stage teams where the founder is still in the sales motion, Series A produces the better list. Running both and comparing the ICP fit scores quickly shows which stage produces the strongest matches for your business.

  • What if the company raised but isn't spending on tools yet?

    The stacked signal check surfaces this distinction. A company that raised 28 days ago with no new hires, no intent signals, and no tech stack changes is in the announcement phase — the spending hasn’t started yet. A company that raised 11 days ago and has already posted 8 SDR roles and adopted Salesforce is in the buildout phase. The play ranks by signal strength precisely to surface the accounts where the spending motion is already active, not just the ones where the money landed. If you’re seeing a lot of funding-only accounts with no stacked signals, widen the timeframe to 60 or 90 days to catch companies further into their post-funding buildout.

  • How is this different from the Find Recently Funded Companies play?

    The Find Recently Funded Companies play returns a broad list of recently funded companies across all stages — useful for a wide signal sweep across your territory. This play is narrower and more precise: it targets Series A and B specifically, filters hard against your ICP, checks for stacked signals, and verifies a contact at each account — so the output is a ranked call list, not a research list. Use the broader play for territory monitoring. Use this play when you want to act on the funding signal immediately.

  • Can I target a specific round size, not just stage?

    Yes — add a round size filter to the ICP field. “Series B, $15M to $50M” produces a tighter list than “Series B” alone, which can include rounds from $8M to $100M+ depending on the market. Round size is a proxy for the scale of the buildout — a $50M Series B typically means more aggressive hiring and a larger tool budget than a $12M Series B. If your product sells best to companies at a specific scale of investment, specifying the range makes the output more precise.

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