Signal key
funding_round_announcedCategory
Funding
Source
Funding records (rounds list).
When it fires
Trigger condition
A new entry appears in the funding rounds list.
Stored fields
This signal persists the following metadata you can read downstream:Magnitude
Hyper-priority, the single clearest budget event.For the full bucket definitions used across percentage-based signals, see Magnitude buckets.
Why it matters
A new round is the single clearest ‘they have budget now’ event. Fresh capital is earmarked for growth, hiring, and tooling, companies that just raised are actively shopping and have the budget approved. This is the highest-intent signal in the catalog.How to use Funding Round Announced Signal?
The scenario. You founded an outbound agency that builds sales pipelines for B2B startups. Your service costs real money, and your buyers pay for it most happily in one specific season: the weeks after new capital lands, when growth targets have just been rewritten upward and the team to hit them has not been hired yet. The goal. Reach every freshly funded startup in your niche within days of the announcement, ahead of the flood, because every agency reads the same funding news and by day ten the founder’s inbox is a graveyard of congratulations. The signal fires.funding_round_announced fires for Plumline, a workflow-automation startup: a new Series B. The math writes your pitch for you: a Series B implies aggressive pipeline targets, and their careers page shows exactly two salespeople.
What it tells you. Fresh funding compresses time. The board that approved the round attached expectations to it, and the founder now faces a gap between the growth curve they sold and the go-to-market machine they have. Hiring closes that gap in six months; an agency closes it in three weeks. That arbitrage is your entire pitch, but it only works while the gap is fresh and the panic is quiet.
The play.
- Be in the inbox within 72 hours; speed is most of the win in a moment everyone can see.
- Skip congratulations, lead with the gap:
A Series B usually means the pipeline target tripled while the sales team did not. We build outbound engines for exactly this quarter of a company’s life, and can be generating meetings inside three weeks while you hire properly.
- Anchor to their timeline: results before their next board meeting is the deadline that matters to them.
- Tier by round size and stage fit, a Series B in your niche outranks a mega-round outside it, always.
funding_round_announced, filtered to your verticals, delivers the list before the congratulations pile up.
Why it lands. Funded founders do not need convincing to spend, the board did that. They need somewhere effective to spend it, fast, and you arrived first.
How to read it
Budget unlocked
A raise means approved capital to deploy.
Active shopping
Newly funded companies buy fast to deploy capital.
Composite fuel
Underpins pre_ipo_signal and pairs with hiring surges.
Outreach playbook
Related signals
Last Funding Round Change
The company’s funding stage advanced.
Total Funding Increase
The company’s total funding raised increased.
Jobs Open Spike
Open job postings jumped sharply above the recent baseline.
Executive Team Buildout
A company rapidly built out its leadership team.
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