USE CASE:
US companies: the work behind funding signals
Everything below is about one job: funding signals for US companies, done in a way that survives a list rather than a single lookup. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so Funding Record is something you run yourself against your own list of US companies.
The problem
US companies and funding signals: the shortcuts stop working, for one specific reason. Any funding signals method has to survive this: US companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly. Know this about US companies before any funding signals: coverage from any vendor drops off a cliff outside the English speaking market. There is 1 runnable example of funding signals for US companies below.
Why it matters
A raise puts one of the US companies onto forty sequences the same week, which is why the signal is real and the opening line is dead.
The method
- Start with one of US companies you already know, so a wrong funding signals answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Funding Record across your list of US companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for funding signals.
- Read ten rows of funding signals on US companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- The national company register, for US companies. Free, authoritative, and in its own language.
- 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
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Funding Record1 preconfigured task on this page's job.