How to find recently funded companies with Crunchbase

To find recently funded companies in Crunchbase, run a company search and filter it by last funding date, then sort the results so the newest rounds come first. Crunchbase's advanced search lets you set the last funding date to a window such as the past 30 or 90 days and choose the last funding type, such as seed, Series A, or Series B. You can also search funding rounds instead of companies and filter by the date each round was announced, which is useful when you care about the round itself, such as its size or its lead investor. Either way, you can add filters for industry, headquarters location, employee count, and total funding to bring the list closer to your market. Most of these filters, along with exporting results, need a paid Crunchbase plan.

That gets you a list of companies that raised money. It doesn't tell you which ones need what you sell. A 30-day search across all industries can return thousands of companies, and most of them are wrong for you: too big, too small, in a market you don't serve, or already your customer. Crunchbase's funding search is also built around the company. It tells you who founded the business and who invested in it, but finding the person who would actually buy from you, and the right thing to say to them, is still your job.

That's the real work in this job. A good result is a short list of companies that raised recently and look like your best customers, with the right person named at each one and a clear, dated reason to reach out. Timing matters too. A company is easiest to reach in the weeks after a round, while it's hiring and choosing its tools, so the list is only worth much if it's fresh.

Kite does that work for you. It writes the Crunchbase search from what it knows about your customers, reads each company's profile to decide which ones fit, and carries the qualified accounts through to contacts, scores, and outreach.

Start by telling Kite what kind of funded companies you want to reach. A plain request is enough:

"Find companies that raised a seed or Series A round in the last 60 days and would be a good fit for us."

Kite is an AI marketer. It researches your business, builds a growth strategy, and ships the work that brings you new customers. You can work with Kite in the Kite web app or in Slack. By the time you ask, Kite already knows your positioning, your current customers, and your competitors from that research, so it can propose the industries, locations, company sizes, and round types to search without a long brief. Confirm the plan or adjust it, and Kite starts.

You'll need to connect your Crunchbase account so Kite can search it. Crunchbase connects with your own credentials, so you'll need a Crunchbase plan that includes API access, and Kite can read the fields your plan includes. Kite only reads from Crunchbase and doesn't change anything there. To save the finished accounts and contacts to your CRM, connect that account too.

Kite builds a Crunchbase company search that combines recent funding with the traits of your best customers. It sets the last funding date to the window you asked for, or proposes one, and limits the last funding type to the stages that match what you sell. A product priced for early teams points to seed and Series A rounds, while a product built for larger companies points to later rounds.

Then Kite adds every part of your profile that Crunchbase can filter on, so the search itself does most of the narrowing:

• Industry categories
• Headquarters location
• Employee count range
• Total funding amount
• Operating status, so that closed or acquired companies stay out

Kite sorts the results by last funding date, newest first. When the search returns far more companies than you asked for, it tightens the filters rather than skimming the top of a long list.

Kite reads each company's Crunchbase profile and keeps only the ones that fit, because a funding round is a reason to call a company, not a reason to want it as a customer. The profile gives Kite the company's short description, industry categories, founding date, headquarters, employee count range, website, total funding, number of rounds, and its last round's type and date.

Kite reads the description against your positioning to decide whether the company has the problem you solve. Two companies in the same Crunchbase category can be very different businesses, and the description is usually where that shows. Next, Kite drops your current customers, your competitors, and any company your team has asked it to skip. It also checks the company's website and recent news to confirm the round was announced and the company is still operating. When a round shows up in the news but not yet in Crunchbase, Kite includes it and notes where it came from.

If fewer companies qualify than you asked for, Kite tells you how many it found and why the rest fell short. Ten good accounts are worth more than fifty that sales will ignore.

Kite finds the people at each qualified company who are most likely to buy from you, because its Crunchbase connection reads company data, such as founders and investors, rather than the rest of the team. It searches its built-in sources by job title, seniority, and location, and checks that each person still holds the role. At a ten-person seed company, that's often a founder. At a company that just raised a larger round, it's more often the head of the team that would use your product.

Each person gets their current title, LinkedIn profile, and a work email when the source has one. Kite keeps each email's verification status exactly as the source reports it, so you know which addresses are safe to send to. It then scores every contact from one to five against your criteria, with a one-line reason, and splits a long list into primary and secondary groups so you know where to start.

Kite reads the details of each round so the outreach can say something specific about the company. It notes the round's type, its date, the total the company has raised, and the investors behind it. It then pairs that with what the company is doing now, such as open roles on its careers page or a product launch in its announcement.

That's what turns "they raised money" into a reason a person would answer an email. A company that just raised a Series A and posted three sales roles is probably building its first sales process, and that's a more useful opening than the round alone.

Kite saves the finished list wherever your team works from it. With a CRM connected, it checks for each company and person before creating anything, so an account you already track gets updated rather than duplicated. It then adds the company, attaches its contacts, and records the funding round and the reason each person was chosen. Without a CRM, Kite can put the list in a connected spreadsheet or deliver it as a table in your conversation.

Adding records to your CRM is routine work, so Kite does it and then tells you what changed. Sending emails is different. Kite drafts a personalized email for each primary contact that opens with the round and what it likely means for the company, and it asks you to approve before anything goes out.

When the work is done, Kite posts a summary in the conversation where you asked. It says how many funded companies matched the search, how many it kept, and why it dropped the rest. It also lists the contacts it found at each company and how many have a work email. The full list comes as a table, so you can scan the companies, rounds, and contacts in one place.

New rounds are announced every day, so this job is most useful on a schedule. Ask Kite to run it every Monday, and it searches only for rounds since the last run, skips companies it has already handled, and sends you the new batch.

When Kite finishes, you have a short list of companies that just raised money and fit your market, with the people to contact and something real to say to each of them.