Roughly 224 startups raise a round every week — 293 in the last 30 days and 2,881 in the last 90. Each one is a company that has budget this quarter it did not have last quarter. A funding alert turns that from something you check into something that reaches you, filtered down to the stages, industries and cities you actually sell to.
This is the trigger-event play: instead of working a static list, you work the companies whose circumstances just changed. New funding leads convert better than cold accounts for one unglamorous reason — the money is real, it is recent, and it has not been spent yet.
The 10 most recent rounds on record, newest first. Data through July 31, 2026.
| Company | Raised | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Univearth Osaka | $2.4M | July 31, 2026 |
| Ratio Therapeutics Boston | $70.0M | July 31, 2026 |
| Dandelion Chocolate San Francisco | $623K | July 31, 2026 |
| Listie Mutsu | $973K | July 31, 2026 |
| Taian Tokyo | $329K | July 31, 2026 |
| Rune Technologies Arlington | $24.0M | July 30, 2026 |
| Tiiny AI Singapore | $3.1M | July 30, 2026 |
| Relief AI Toronto | $3.6M | July 30, 2026 |
| Sound Health San Francisco | $12.3M | July 30, 2026 |
| RoboTruck Tokyo | $31.8M | July 30, 2026 |
Define the filter before the alert. 2,881 rounds in 90 days is noise, not a signal. A useful alert is narrow: one or two stages, a short list of industries, and a geography you can actually service. If an alert fires more than a handful of times a week, it is not filtered tightly enough to be worked properly.
Attach the contact record at alert time. The gap that kills most trigger-event programmes is the manual step between “company X raised” and “here is who to email”. If that research happens per-account after the alert fires, the 30-day window is mostly gone before the first message goes out. The alert should arrive with the company, the round, the investors and the people already attached.
Sequence on the round, not the company. The round is what is new, so it belongs in the first line. Reference the stage and what typically breaks at that stage. Our funded startup email templates cover the framing, and the prospecting playbook covers cadence.
Expire the list. A funding trigger has a shelf life. Companies that raised four months ago belong in your normal territory, not your trigger sequence. Recycling stale rounds through a “congrats on the raise” opener is how trigger-event outbound acquires a bad reputation internally.
Funding data always lags announcements by some margin, whatever the source. The most recent round in this dataset is dated July 31, 2026. Build your window around the announcement date on the record rather than the date you received the alert.
Round counts are the last 90 days, so each figure is the weekly volume an alert on that stage would realistically produce.
First institutional cheque. Founder-led buying, small budgets, fast decisions.
304 rounds in 90 days · $1.3M average
Building toward product-market fit. Choosing their first real tooling stack.
776 rounds in 90 days · $5.9M average
Product-market fit proven. Hiring go-to-market and buying to support it.
321 rounds in 90 days · $33.3M average
Scaling a working model. Department budgets and real procurement appear.
133 rounds in 90 days · $63.6M average
Category contenders. Security review, vendor consolidation, enterprise terms.
66 rounds in 90 days · $191.3M average
Late stage, pre-exit. Large committed budgets and formal buying committees.
31 rounds in 90 days · $265.1M average
A funding alert is a notification that a company matching your criteria has raised a round. It converts funding from something you look up occasionally into something that reaches you while it is still actionable. Across the last 90 days roughly 224 companies raised per week, so the practical problem is not finding rounds but filtering them down to the ones you can actually sell to.
A trigger event is an observable change at an account that makes it more likely to buy right now. Funding is the cleanest one in B2B because it is publicly announced, precisely dated, and directly tied to budget. Other common triggers include executive hires, headcount growth, office moves and new product launches, but none of them signal available money as unambiguously as a closed round.
It is a widely reported finding in B2B outbound practice that outreach within roughly 30 days of an announcement performs materially better than outreach sent months later, as the budget gets allocated and the post-announcement inbound rush dies down. VCBacked has not run its own study on this, so treat the 30-day window as an industry rule of thumb and validate it against your own reply data before building a process around it.
Match stage to your price point. Pre-Seed and Seed companies buy quickly and without procurement but have small budgets. Series B and later have real budget and real process. The trailing-90-day round counts by stage are Seed 776, Series A 321, Venture - Series Unknown 308, Pre-Seed 304, Post-IPO Equity 222 — which tells you how much volume each alert would actually produce.
Free options such as news alerts and funding newsletters will tell you that a round happened. They generally will not let you filter by stage, industry and location together, and they do not hand you the contact records you need to act on the signal, so the work of turning an announcement into a prospect list stays manual. Whether that matters depends on how many rounds a week you actually intend to work.
The dataset runs slightly behind live announcements. The most recent round currently on record is dated July 31, 2026, and that date is shown on the funding pages rather than hidden behind a generic "updated daily" claim. Counts on this page rebuild from the database every 24 hours.
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