Recently Funded Startups: 2,817 Rounds in the Last 90 Days

1. Cut it down before you touch it. 2,817 rounds in 90 days is far more than any team can work. Filter to a stage band that matches your price point — Pre-Seed and Seed companies buy self-serve tools on a founder’s card, while Series B and later have procurement, security review and a budget owner who is not the CEO. Then filter by industry, then by city if your motion is regional.

2. Work the freshest rounds first. The list above is sorted by date for a reason. It is a widely reported finding in B2B outbound that reaching out within roughly 30 days of a funding announcement outperforms outreach sent months later, as the budget gets committed and the inbound rush fades. This is an industry rule of thumb rather than VCBacked research, so treat the 30-day window as a starting hypothesis and measure it against your own reply rates.

3. Use the round as the opening line, not the whole pitch. The amount, the stage and the lead investor are all on this page. “Saw you closed your Seed — most teams at that stage hit X problem next” is specific enough to prove you did the work, and short enough to leave room for the actual value proposition. Congratulating them and stopping there is not a message.

4. Re-run it on a schedule. Trigger-event prospecting only compounds if the list is refreshed. New rounds land continuously, and a cohort you worked last month is no longer a trigger. Set up funding alerts so new rounds matching your filters reach you while they are still fresh, and see the playbook for prospecting recently funded startups for sequencing detail.