Find recently funded companies to prospect
A Claude prompt that returns verified companies that closed a funding round in your target window — with round size, round date, lead investor, and a verified buying group inside each. Built for outreach timed to the moment new capital lands.
Once Lusha is connected in Claude, the connector runs in the background — no special syntax needed. Just paste the prompt and run.
Images on this webpage are for illustrative purposes only. Any named individuals shown in live demo outputs are real, with last names abbreviated for privacy.
The prompt
<context>
I want to find companies that closed a funding round in the last [WINDOW, e.g. 6 months].
Companies that raise often invest in [TARGET FUNCTION, e.g. GTM, Engineering, Finance].
</context>
<task>
1. Use Lusha's signals search to find companies matching:
- Recent funding round (signal: financial events news, event type: Funding Round)
- Industry: [INDUSTRY]
- Headcount: [RANGE]
- Geography: [REGION]
- Window: [START DATE]
2. For each company, return:
- Company name and domain
- Round size (where reported)
- Round date and stage
- Lead investor (where reported)
3. For the top 10 by recency and round size, pull 3 verified buying-group contacts in [TARGET FUNCTION] with validated email and direct dial.
4. Order companies by round date — newest first.
5. Surface the source article URL on each funding event so the rep can reference it in outreach.
</task>
<constraints>
- Only include funding events Lusha has verified through the signals layer.
- Skip seed rounds unless explicitly requested.
- Skip contacts who left the company.
- Do not invent round amounts where not reported.
</constraints>What you'll get back
Input: Industry — B2B SaaS (Software Development) · Headcount — 201–5,000 · Geography — United States · Window — last 6 months · Signal — Funding Round.
Output: 122 funded B2B SaaS companies identified in the United States in the last 6 months. Below is a real slice of the live result — five named companies with verified funding events pulled directly from Lusha’s signals layer.
| Company | Round | Size | Lead investor | Round date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xAI | Series E | $20B | Qatar Investment Authority + MGX | Jan 2026 |
| xAI | Series E | $3B | HUMAIN (Saudi PIF) | Feb 2026 |
| Attentive.ai | Series B | $30.5M | Insight Partners | Nov 2025 |
| Verkada | Investment round | (Valuation $5.8B) | CapitalG (Alphabet) | Dec 2025 |
| Datadog | Financial event | – | – | Last 6 months |
| Motive | Financial event | – | – | Last 6 months |
Funding events sourced from Lusha’s signals layer, with the original news article URL surfaced on each row. Full buying-group contact details are returned inside your Claude session.
Why it works
Funded companies hire faster, buy faster, and rebuild stacks faster. The narrow window after a round closes is when buying decisions get unblocked. Three things change when the funding signal is paired with verified buying-group contacts.
The signal is time-stamped and cited. Every funding event in the result comes with a round date, lead investor where reported, and the original news article URL. The rep can reference the specific round in outreach — not “saw you raised recently” but “saw the Insight-led Series B last week.” That specificity is what separates a hot inbound from a cold one.
The buying group is verified at the moment of outreach. Lusha returns verified contacts inside the funded companies under GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, ISO 27701, ISO 31700, and TRUSTe. The CRO who’ll be hiring against this round is in the result, with a callable phone, not a guess from a press release.
The list is ranked by recency. Older rounds get less productive outreach — the buyer is already three vendor cycles in. Newest rounds first means the rep is reaching people in the first three weeks of the new mandate, when the budget is still being scoped.
FAQ
How quickly does Lusha pick up a funding round?
Verified funding events typically appear in the signals layer within days of public disclosure. Each event carries the original news article URL so the rep can confirm context before outreach.
Can I scope by round size or stage?
Round size filtering happens inside Claude’s filter pass — Lusha returns all verified funding events in the window, and Claude narrows by minimum round size or stage (Series A, B, C) in step 2 of the prompt. To skip seed rounds, add that to the constraint block.
What's the difference between "financial events news" and a structured funding filter?
Funding is delivered through Lusha’s signals layer as a news event with structured metadata — round type, amount, investor, date. It’s not a static firmographic field. The advantage: you see exactly what closed, when, and at what valuation, with the source article attached.
Does the prompt cover EMEA and APAC funding rounds?
Yes. Lusha’s signals layer is multi-region. Set the geography variable to the relevant country list, with EMEA email accuracy at 97% and APAC at 96%.
Can I run the same prompt for IPOs, acquisitions, or strategic investments?
Yes. The signals layer covers IPO, M&A, Strategic Investment, and other news event types. Change the event type in step 1 — the same prompt structure works for any major capital event.
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