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Signal key

last_funding_round_change

Category

Funding

Source

Funding records (last round stage).
The company’s funding stage advanced.

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When it fires

Trigger condition

last_funding_round advances (Seed → Series A → Series B → and so on).

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Magnitude

High, each stage advance means more capital.
For the full bucket definitions used across percentage-based signals, see Magnitude buckets.

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Why it matters

Each step up means a bigger war chest and bigger ambitions. Advancing from Seed to Series A, or Series A to B, marks a maturity leap, larger budgets, more formal procurement, and a buying committee that’s growing more sophisticated.

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How to use Last Funding Round Change Signal?

The setup. You lead growth at a cloud-infrastructure startup with usage-based pricing. Seed-stage companies love you and spend nothing; growth-stage companies spend seriously but are locked into contracts they signed at their last stage. Your best customers, you have learned, are caught at the boundary: companies whose stage just changed, whose infrastructure needs are about to outgrow their setup. What you want. A stage-transition feed: every company in your ecosystem whose funding stage advanced, the moment it advances, so your ICP tiers update themselves. The signal fires. last_funding_round_change fires for Coralbrook AI, a machine-learning tools company already in your CRM as a free-tier user: their last funding round has moved from seed to Series A. Reading it. A stage change is a different event from a funding announcement, it marks the company graduating into a new operating class. Series A companies hire faster, ship faster, and hit infrastructure ceilings on a schedule you can practically calendar: the free tier stops fitting around month two, the scaling conversation happens by month six. Coralbrook is already inside your product with a spending curve about to inflect, which makes this the cheapest expansion opportunity you will ever get. The play.
  1. Wire the signal to your account tiers: any account whose stage advances gets auto-promoted into the managed tier, with an owner assigned.
  2. Have that owner reach out about scale before the ceiling hits, capacity planning offered early feels like partnership; the same call after an outage feels like upselling.
  3. Offer the growth-stage package with migration included; companies fresh off a raise trade money for time in every deal.
  4. Track conversion by stage-transition cohort; it will outperform every static segment you have, and the data makes next year’s planning honest.
Automate it. A weekly Company Signals API pull on last_funding_round_change, matched against your user base, turns stage graduation into an automated expansion trigger. Why this works. Everyone chases funding announcements for new logos. The quieter win is watching your own free users cross the stage line, one query, zero acquisition cost.

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How to read it

Maturity leap

Each stage means more capital and more structure.

Bigger budgets

Later stages buy enterprise-grade tooling.

Procurement formalizes

Buying gets more process-driven at each stage.

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Outreach playbook

High-value. Match your offering to the new stage’s budget and sophistication.

Funding Round Announced

A new funding round was announced.

Total Funding Increase

The company’s total funding raised increased.

Executive Team Buildout

A company rapidly built out its leadership team.

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