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BUILT FOR US RECRUITING & EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRMS

Funding Events Are Hiring Events

When a US company raises a Series A, they will hire 15-30 people in the next six months — and the leadership roles get filled fast. The recruiting firm that gets in front of them in the first two weeks usually wins the retainer. By the time the role hits LinkedIn, it's already too late.

Fundz tells you which US companies just got funded — and gives you the contacts, the context, and the outreach to win the engagement before competing search firms even know it exists.

Flagship Staffing Surface · Built for Recruiting Firms

Meet Hiring Intel — Your Daily Command Center

The dedicated surface inside Fundz where staffing firms live. Every newly-funded US company is grouped at the org level and ranked by hiring intent — so you spend zero time deciding who to call next.

Seven questions a recruiter asks every day. Answered in one click each.

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3 companies to act on today, grounded in your signals

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1. TENEX.AI

Watchlisted org with $250M Series B 35 days ago + hiring surge 56 people in 14d + strong ICP match

Drew Fearson
Vice President of Talent
Matches your buyer profile (VP Sales)
Human Resources
drew.fearson@tenex.ai
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2. Strider Technologies

VP Sales role posted + new CEO Caroline Bellamy 22 days ago + hiring surge 15 in 14d matches your buyer profile

Kris Rickard
Director of Global Talent Acquisition
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TTENEX.AIPRIVATEFounded 2024 · 39 employees · Lake Forest, CA✨ Deep DiveTrackArtificial IntelligenceCyber SecurityInformation TechnologyTENEX is a cybersecurity company leveraging AI to transform enterprise security.Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Shield Capital. Next-gen Managed Detectionand Response (MDR) service.⚡ Key Signals$Raised $250,000,000 in Series BMar 31, 2026 · View details$Raised $27,000,000 in Series ASep 11, 2025Appoints Venkata Koppaka as CTOApr 08, 2025⚗ FundzIQ™ Predictive IntelligenceBacktested over thousands of eventsNext predicted event$ Funding RoundBased on 3 events⏱ Expected Window2 weeks to 12 monthsProbability DistributionFunding Round63%Executive Hire20%Contract / Partnership9%Acquisition7%✨ AI ANALYST NOTETENEX.AI is poised for significant growth as itcontinues to attract substantial funding…Track for funding round signal
1. Org Deep Dive · Predictive Intelligence

Every funded org gets an AI analyst note + probability distribution for next funding / exec hire / contract / acquisition — backtested over years of proprietary data.

The Only Tool That Combines All Of This

No other signal-intelligence platform serves recruiting & staffing this deeply.

ZoomInfo gives you contacts. Crunchbase gives you funding. LinkedIn shows job posts. Apollo enriches. Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters and Recruitee data each live in their own silo. Each piece costs you a separate subscription — and none of them fuse the signals into one daily action list.

Fundz is the only platform combining real-time funding & exec signals, direct ingestion from 6 ATS / job-board systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee), and Claude-powered synthesis — purpose-built for the depth, breadth, and quality recruiting firms need.

SEC Form D funding signals (2-3 weeks ahead of TechCrunch)
Hiring velocity surges (e.g. "56 people in 14d")
Exec changes (CEO / CFO / CRO / VP) tied to org records
Direct ATS / job-board ingestion: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee
Open-role aging thresholds (45 / 60 / 90 / 120 days)
Employee sentiment trend (composite, our own dataset)
ICP scoring against your buyer profile (industry + size + role)
Decision-maker contacts with verified email + mobile reveal
Comp peer-percentile benchmarking from 8K+ postings
ML predictions of next funding / exec / M&A move
Claude-powered synthesis: AI analyst notes, Ask Fundz, Search Briefs, DM drafter
Saved Mandates with Monday-morning email digest

One subscription. One workflow. One daily briefing that tells you who, why, when, what to send, and what to hand your client.

Which orgs should I focus on today?

Org-grouped intent feed ranks every funded company by a composite score that fuses funding, hiring velocity, exec change, employee sentiment, and ICP fit.

Why this org, why now?

Full signal envelope: every active signal, recent funding, exec changes, employee sentiment trend, all open roles, and the drivers behind the intent score.

What's a fair fee on this role?

Comp benchmark places the posting against peer percentiles in our own dataset — same role, same size bucket, same industry. p25/p50/p75 markers on every role.

Who do I call?

Suggested contacts surface the top decision-makers per org, scored against your buyer profile. Names, titles, fit ranking — already enriched, ready to outreach.

What's likely to happen next?

ML predictions surface probability of next funding, next exec hire, acquisition, or new contracts — with a timeframe estimate so you know when to lean in.

What do I send?

One-click Engage DM drafter (Strategic). Claude writes a subject and a tight 60-110 word DM that opens with the specific signal — no filler, no "hope this finds you well."

Search Brief PDF

One-page client-ready intel brief on any role — funding context, hiring history, competitive landscape. Print or save as PDF and put it in front of your client.

Saved Mandates + Weekly Digest

Save your filter combinations as Mandates. Fundz runs them every Monday at 7am ET and emails the new matches — pre-scored against your ICP.

Watchlist Aging Alerts

Track strategic accounts. The day a vacancy on your watchlist crosses 45 / 60 / 90 / 120 days open, you get a real-time email — your recovery moment.

Built for the Founders Who Run These Firms

Whether you run a retained executive search firm, a contingent agency, an RPO operation, or a sector-specialized boutique — your customers all share one thing: they grow fast, hire fast, and pick partners fast. Fundz puts you first in line.

Retained Executive Search

C-suite and VP-level retained search. Funded companies restructure leadership the moment the round closes — but only if you reach them before the larger firms do.

Contingent Recruiting

Contingent placements across engineering, sales, finance, and ops. Win the engagement before the role hits LinkedIn — and get paid before another agency does.

RPO & Embedded Recruiting

Recruitment Process Outsourcing for high-growth startups. Fundz delivers the pipeline of newly-funded companies you should be embedded in next.

Sector-Specialized Search

Healthtech, fintech, defense, climate, AI — recruiters with deep vertical expertise. Catch funded companies in your sector the day the round closes, not the week the post goes live.

Boutique Search Firms

10-50 person firms competing against larger players. Fundz gives you the same primary-source signal advantage the bulge-bracket search firms get from internal research teams.

Talent & Leadership Advisory

Advisory and fractional CHRO firms. Fundz surfaces companies that just hit the inflection point where they need leadership infrastructure built fast.

The Window Closes Fast. Most Recruiting Firms Miss It.

When a company raises funding, you have about two weeks to be the firm they call. After that, they've already started searching through someone else.

The Old Way

Wait for job posts to hit LinkedIn (1-3 weeks late)
Cold-source by industry and stage with no buying signal
Hope your reps stumble across the right company
Compete with every other staffing firm at the same time
Pitch into the void — no idea if the company is hiring
Spend hours each day on manual prospecting

You're chasing yesterday's news.

The Fundz Way

Real-time alerts the day funding closes — from SEC filings, not press releases
Daily AI-curated list of companies in YOUR target market that just raised
Decision-maker contact info delivered with every signal
Engage™ warm outreach triggered the moment a company qualifies
Cross-signal scoring: funding + hiring velocity + exec changes = buyer intent
Spend zero hours prospecting. Spend all your time closing.

You're first in line, every time.

4 Signals That Tell You Who's Ready to Hire

Fundz combines four real-time signals to surface the companies most likely to need a recruiting partner — right now.

Funding Rounds

Every Series A-C triggers 15-30 hires in the next 6 months. We surface the round directly from SEC Form D filings — typically 2-3 weeks before TechCrunch or Crunchbase. That's your window.

Hiring Velocity Spikes

When a company's open roles jump 300% in a week, they're building a team fast. Fundz cross-references job posts with funding events to identify companies actively scaling.

Executive Hires & Departures

A new VP of Engineering means a new engineering team. A new CFO means new finance ops. Every C-suite or VP change is a structural reset that creates immediate staffing demand.

Acquisitions & Expansion

M&A creates immediate restructuring needs. New office openings signal regional team builds. We catch both — and tell you who to talk to before the headcount budget is allocated.

From Signal to Booked Meeting — With Engage

Fundz does the entire prospecting workflow for you. You wake up to a curated list of high-intent companies, decision-maker contacts, and outreach already in motion.

STEP 01

Signal Detected

A company in your ICP raises funding, hires a new exec, or spikes in hiring velocity. Fundz catches it the day it happens.

STEP 02

AI Scores It

FundzIQ analyzes the signal against your specific ICP — industry, size, geography, role types — and scores it for fit and urgency.

STEP 03

Contacts Pulled

Decision-maker emails and LinkedIn profiles delivered with the signal. No separate enrichment subscription needed.

STEP 04

Engage Sends

Warm LinkedIn outreach triggers automatically — personalized messages to your network, paused on reply, escalated to you when interest is detected.

Everything You Need to Win Recruiting Engagements

Built into every Fundz Pro plan. No add-ons, no upsells, no separate data subscriptions.

FundzIQ Daily Briefing

An AI analyst that works overnight on your watchlist. Each morning you get a curated brief with the companies you should reach out to today, ranked and explained.

Daily AI-Matched Leads

Up to 25 companies a day, scored against YOUR ICP. Fundz learns which companies you close and gets smarter every week.

Engage™ Warm Outreach

Event-triggered warm LinkedIn messages powered by Fundz intelligence. Auto-pause on reply. Built-in safety limits to protect your network.

Decision-Maker Contacts

CEO, COO, Head of People, Head of Engineering — whoever owns the hiring decision is delivered with every signal.

Hiring Velocity Tracking

See which companies just spiked their headcount or open requisitions. The clearest possible buying signal for staffing services.

Deep Dive Reports

One-click intelligence brief on any company: their funding history, recent leadership changes, growth pattern, and what their next 6 months look like.

Cross-Signal Intelligence

Funding + hiring + exec change in the same week = active scaling. Fundz correlates signals automatically and surfaces the highest-intent companies first.

CRM & CSV Export

HubSpot and Salesforce integrations. CSV export for any other system. Keep your existing workflow — just add intelligence.

Account Tracking

Monitor up to 100 strategic accounts. Get notified the moment any of them takes a hiring action — not weeks later.

WorkVibz™

Spot companies with declining employee satisfaction — they're about to lose people and need your help filling roles. Declining WorkVibz culture scores predict attrition before it happens.

How a Real Founder Uses Fundz

Why Fundz is the only tool that gives recruiting firm owners both the real-time event intelligence and the outreach automation to be the first firm growing companies hear from.

Fundz Strategic Customer · Reference Available

Founder of a New York-based executive search firm placing leadership and growth-stage hires across high-growth technology companies.

He built his outreach engine around the Fundz daily brief. Every morning, Fundz surfaces the US companies that just raised funding and are about to scale leadership and senior headcount — long before the roles ever hit LinkedIn or job boards. Engage fires the same day, positioning his firm while the company is still putting their hiring plan together.

The result: he's stopped manual prospecting entirely. His outbound pipeline now runs on Engage, and he consistently reaches funded companies weeks before they begin a formal search — putting him in front of the decision-maker before any other recruiting firm even knows the opportunity exists. He cited the standard differentiators that brought him to Fundz: real-time funding signals from primary sources (not press releases), decision-maker contacts delivered with each event, hiring-velocity cross-referencing to confirm hiring intent, predictive intelligence on which companies are about to make leadership changes, and warm Engage outreach so he doesn't have to spam — all in one workflow.

Why Fundz vs. anything else

  • Real-time funding & exec change signals from primary sources — not press releases
  • Decision-maker contacts delivered with every signal, no separate enrichment needed
  • Engage™ warm outreach triggered the moment a company qualifies
  • Cross-signal scoring so the highest-intent accounts surface first
  • All in one place, with no engineering or stitching required

Recruiters Are Flooding LinkedIn with AI-Generated Outreach

But they're all using the same data. Fundz detects hiring signals from funding rounds, executive departures, and WorkVibz culture shifts minutes after they happen — giving you a head start measured in days, not hours.

10 years of structured signals. 15+ direct sources. 200,000+ companies. The data is the moat — and no DIY AI agent can replicate it.

LinkedIn Recruiter shows you who's open to work. Fundz shows you which companies are ABOUT to need people — before the job posting goes live. That's a 2-3 week head start on every other recruiter.

Google Alerts tells you "Company raised funding." Fundz tells you "Company raised $15M Series B, hiring velocity suggests 15-30 new roles in next 6 months, culture score declining suggests attrition, 3 of your placed candidates are there, proactive retention outreach ready." Same company, completely different intelligence.

The Math Is Brutal

For a recruiting firm, one new placement from a Fundz signal pays for the platform many times over.

Avg. Placement Fee

$25-150K

per search engagement

Fundz Pro (Annual)

$59/mo

$708/year per seat

Break-Even Point

< 1 placement

one search pays for years of Fundz

Most of our recruiting customers close their first Fundz-sourced engagement within 60 days. The question isn't whether you can afford Fundz — it's whether you can afford to let another recruiting firm get to those companies first.

Simple Pricing for Recruiting Firms

Choose the plan that fits your team. Every plan includes real-time signals, contacts, and Engage™ warm outreach.

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Pro

$59/mo

For growing recruiting firms

FundzIQ daily AI briefing
15 AI-matched leads daily
Track up to 100 accounts
Engage™ warm LinkedIn outreach
Cross-signal intent scoring
CRM integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce)
Unlimited Deep Dive reports
Start Pro

Strategic

$99/mo

For recruiting teams that want every edge

Everything in Pro, plus:
25 AI-matched leads daily
Predictive Intelligence™
SEC 8-K analysis (3-6 weeks early)
Track up to 250 accounts
Engage™ warm LinkedIn outreach (unlimited)
2 seats included
Guided onboarding session
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For the Owners Who Built These Firms From Zero

You didn't start a recruiting firm to spend half your week on cold prospecting. Fundz handles the top of the funnel so you can focus on what actually grows the business.

Get Your Time Back

Stop spending 10+ hours a week researching companies and hunting contacts. Wake up to a daily list — pre-scored, pre-enriched, pre-contacted.

Predictable Pipeline

Fundz delivers fresh leads every single day. No more pipeline droughts. No more "where will next month's deals come from?"

Focus on Closing, Not Sourcing

Your recruiters should be on calls with qualified prospects, not building lists. Fundz turns sourcing into a non-issue so your team can close engagements.

Win Bigger Engagements

Be the first recruiting firm to reach a funded company. Get the meeting before they've narrowed it down to 3 search firms. Win the strategic accounts your competitors only hear about after the deal is done.

Scalable Without Adding Headcount

A solo founder can run prospecting at the volume of a 5-person research team. Fundz scales your top-of-funnel capacity without adding salaries.

Be the Smartest Person in the Room

When you finally talk to a prospect, you already know their funding history, their recent exec hires, and their growth trajectory. You sound like a strategic partner, not a vendor.

Common Questions From Recruiting Firm Owners

What is Hiring Intel and how is it different from a job board?

Hiring Intel is the dedicated daily surface inside Fundz built for staffing firms. Instead of showing you postings (a job board), it shows you ORGS — every newly-funded US company, ranked by composite hiring intent that fuses funding, hiring velocity, exec change, employee sentiment, and ICP fit. From there, every question a recruiter asks daily — Why this org? Who do I call? What's a fair fee? What do I send? What do I hand my client? — is answered in one click. No other tool combines all of these data layers in a single workflow.

Is this for retained search, contingent, or both?

Both — and RPO and boutique sector specialists too. The common factor is being early to a hiring decision at a funded company. Retained-search customers tell us the predictive layer (which companies are about to replace a CMO/COO/CFO) is the highest-leverage feature. Contingent customers tell us it's the cross-signal scoring that surfaces the highest-intent accounts before the role hits LinkedIn. Different placement economics, same intelligence.

I do retained executive search, not high-volume contingent. Will Fundz still help me?

Yes — and arguably more. Retained search lives or dies on getting in front of the search committee at the right moment. A funded company restructuring leadership is your highest-intent target. Fundz catches that intent the day funding closes, so you're calling before they've started shopping search firms.

Do I need to import my own list of target companies?

No. Fundz uses your ICP profile (industry, size, geography) to surface new companies daily that you'd never have found on your own. You can also add your own watchlist of strategic accounts to track in parallel.

How does Engage avoid sounding spammy?

Engage is event-triggered, not blast-based. It only fires when a real signal qualifies a company for outreach (e.g., they just raised). Messages reference the actual event and leverage your existing LinkedIn connections, so the recipient sees a warm, relevant message — not a generic pitch.

Can my whole team use it?

Yes. Pro is per-seat. Strategic includes 2 seats and you can add more. Each seat has their own ICP, lead feed, and Engage — so a 5-person recruiting team gets 5 personalized pipelines.

What if the funding signal is wrong or stale?

Our funding signals come from SEC Form D filings, not press releases. They're typically 2-3 weeks ahead of TechCrunch and Crunchbase. Every signal is auditable to its source filing. We're showing you the same data the institutional investors use.

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