USE CASE:
Where funding signals differs for SaaS companies
Everything below is about one job: funding signals for SaaS companies, done in a way that survives a list rather than a single lookup. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for work like this, and Funding Press Signal Scanner is the one that reads SaaS companies.
The problem
SaaS companies skew funding signals, for a reason specific to them. SaaS companies sell to other businesses and publish almost nothing about their own numbers, and funding signals inherits that. Know this about SaaS companies before any funding signals: headcount flatters them, because contractors and alumni linger on a company page for years. There is 1 runnable example of funding signals for SaaS companies below.
Why anyone bothers
New money at SaaS companies gets spent faster in the first ninety days than at any other point, and everyone knows it.
The method
- Start with one of SaaS companies you already know, so a wrong funding signals answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Funding Press Signal Scanner across your list of SaaS companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for funding signals.
- Read ten rows of funding signals on SaaS companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- G2, for SaaS companies. Categories and review counts, free to read, and it only covers vendors that asked to be listed.
- 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.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
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- Funding Press Signal Scanner1 preconfigured task on this page's job.