USE CASE:
Cybersecurity companies: the work behind funding signals
What follows is the honest set of ways to get funding signals on cybersecurity companies, including the ones that are not ours. We are Mamba Labs, we build Apify actors, and Funding Record is the one that does this for cybersecurity companies.
What is actually going wrong
Cybersecurity companies distort funding signals, for a reason specific to them. Cybersecurity companies publish less about themselves than any other category in software, on purpose, which shapes funding signals. On cybersecurity companies, funding signals rarely catches this: no customer logos, no team page and no office address is a posture, not an absence of data. Funding Record carries 2 ready made setups for funding signals on cybersecurity companies.
Traditional Search Tools
- Conference sponsor lists, for cybersecurity companies. Free to read, and for this category they are the closest thing to a customer list.
- Crunchbase. The obvious answer, good coverage, and a paid tier for anything programmatic. Everyone targeting funded companies is looking at the same rows.
- SEC EDGAR Form D. Free, authoritative, and earlier than the press by weeks in some cases. US only, and the filings are unpleasant to parse.
- An investor's portfolio page. If you sell to one kind of company, three funds cover most of your market and both publish every new investment.
- Read the announcements. TechCrunch, the SEC Form D feed, the company's own blog. Free, public, and about twenty minutes a day to keep up with one sector.
How we would run it
- Start with one of cybersecurity companies you already know, so a wrong funding signals answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Funding Record across your list of cybersecurity companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for funding signals.
- Run Funding Press Signal Scanner across your list of cybersecurity companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for funding signals.
- Read ten rows of funding signals on cybersecurity companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
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- Funding Press Signal Scanner1 preconfigured task on this page's job.