BUILT FOR US RECRUITING & EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRMS

Know Who's About to Hire — Before the Job Is Posted

A new round, a new exec, a sudden hiring surge — these show up before the requisition does. Fundz tracks them in real time across 200K+ companies, ranks them to the roles you place, and hands you the decision-maker and a signal-grounded opener. So you can start the conversation while the hiring plan is still being written.

It's an intelligence edge, not a magic pipeline: Fundz puts the right companies and the right context in front of you every morning — what you do with that head start is up to you.

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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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Illustrative example of the Hiring Intel briefing · fused funding, hiring-surge and exec-move signals, ranked to your ICP

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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 $27,000,000 in Series ASep 11, 2025Appoints Venkata Koppaka as CTOApr 08, 2025⚗ Predictive IntelligenceBacktested over thousands of eventsNext predicted event$ 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.

Verified funding signals — real-time and broad, across 200K+ companies
Hiring-velocity surges — when a company's open roles climb fast
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, 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 and hire fast. Fundz makes sure those moments land on your radar early — with the context and contact to act.

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.

Most Recruiters Find the Role After It's Posted. Find the Intent Before.

The hiring decision starts forming the moment a company raises, restructures leadership, or starts scaling headcount. Get on it early and you're in a different conversation than the recruiters reacting to a public post.

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 when a tracked company raises, hires an exec, or spikes hiring — verified and broad
Daily AI-curated list of companies in YOUR target market that just raised
Decision-maker contact info delivered with every signal
SmartSend drafts the outreach from the actual signal — sent from your own inbox, stops the moment they reply
Cross-signal scoring: funding + hiring velocity + exec changes = buyer intent
Spend zero hours prospecting. Spend all your time closing.

You're early, with something real to say.

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

A fresh round is one of the strongest leading indicators that a company is about to scale headcount. Fundz surfaces the raise in real time and ranks it to the roles you place — so you're early, not reacting to a public post.

Hiring Velocity Spikes

When a company's open roles climb sharply, they're building a team fast. Fundz cross-references hiring velocity with funding and exec signals to surface 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. And where we have it, office-expansion signals (building permits in major metros) hint at regional team builds before the lease is public. We surface both so you know who to talk to early.

From Signal to First Conversation — With SmartSend

Fundz front-loads the prospecting work for you. You wake up to a curated list of high-intent companies, decision-maker contacts, and a signal-grounded opener ready to preview and send.

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

Daily Briefing 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

SmartSend Drafts It

A signal-grounded email written from the contact's role and the live signal on their company — from your own inbox, up to 3 touches you preview and edit, stops the moment they reply.

Everything You Need to Win Recruiting Engagements

Built into Fundz — most in Pro, the heaviest signal lanes in Strategic. No separate data subscriptions to stitch together.

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.

SmartSend & Engage

SmartSend drafts signal-grounded email from your own inbox (3-touch, stops on reply). Engage turns each day's intelligence into insights you can share with 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 Recruiter Puts Fundz to Work

Why Fundz gives recruiting firm owners both the real-time event intelligence and the signal-grounded outreach to start conversations early — while the hiring plan is still being written.

A day in the workflow

Picture a boutique exec-search firm placing leadership at growth-stage tech companies.

Each morning, the Fundz brief surfaces the companies in their niche showing the earliest hiring intent — a fresh round, a new exec, a hiring surge — ranked to the roles they place. They open the company, see the verified decision-maker, and let SmartSend draft an opener grounded in the actual signal.

The point isn't to automate the relationship — it's to start the conversation early, with something real to say.

Why Fundz vs. anything else

  • Real-time funding & exec-change signals — verified, broad, and ranked to what you place
  • Decision-maker contacts delivered with every signal, no separate enrichment needed
  • SmartSend drafts the outreach from the signal — your inbox, stops on reply
  • 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 in real time — giving you a genuine head start over recruiters reacting to the public post.

A decade of structured signals across hundreds of thousands of 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 — often before the job posting goes live. That's a real head start.

Google Alerts tells you "Company raised funding." Fundz tells you "Company raised, hiring velocity is climbing, a new CRO just started, and here's the decision-maker and a grounded opener." 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

$79/mo

$59/mo annual (intro)

Break-Even Point

< 1 placement

one search pays for years of Fundz

One placement off a Fundz signal pays for years of the platform. The real question is whether you'd rather be early to those companies — or hear about them after the search is already underway.

Simple Pricing for Recruiting Firms

Choose the plan that fits your team. Every plan includes real-time signals, verified contacts, and SmartSend signal-grounded outreach.

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Pro

$79/mo

For growing recruiting firms

Daily Briefing daily AI briefing
10 AI-matched leads daily
Track up to 100 accounts
SmartSend signal-grounded outreach
Cross-signal intent scoring
CRM integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce)
10 Deep Dive reports / month
Start Pro

Strategic

$149/mo

For recruiting teams that want every edge

Everything in Pro, plus:
25 AI-matched leads daily
Predictive Intelligence™
Real-time SEC 8-K filing alerts in Slack
Track up to 250 accounts
Unlimited Deep Dive reports
Hiring Intel + comp benchmarking
Guided onboarding session
Start Strategic

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.

A Steadier Top of Funnel

Fundz delivers fresh, ICP-matched signals every day so your top-of-funnel never goes quiet — a steadier flow of the right companies to work.

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.

Compete for Bigger Engagements

Reach a funded company early — before they've narrowed it down to a shortlist of search firms. Get in front of the strategic accounts your competitors only hear about after the search is already underway.

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 SmartSend avoid sounding spammy?

SmartSend is signal-triggered, not blast-based. It only drafts outreach off a real event, writes to the contact's actual situation, sends from your own inbox, caps at 3 touches, and stops the instant they reply. You preview and edit every touch.

Can my whole team use it?

Yes. Seats are per-user at the same rate; add as many as your desk needs. Each seat has their own ICP, lead feed, and SmartSend — so a 5-person recruiting team gets 5 personalized pipelines.

What if the funding signal is wrong or stale?

Funding signals are verified and drawn broadly, in real time. Where a round is auditable to a filing we link it; the goal is that you act on signals that hold up — not rumor. (Our SEC Form D firehose is the differentiated asset behind our investor and data products; for recruiters the win is breadth, freshness, and the contact plus outreach attached to each signal.)

A Company in Your Niche Just Showed Hiring Intent.
Are You Already in the Conversation?

Stop chasing posted reqs. Get the early signal, the verified contact, and a grounded opener — every morning.

Frequently asked

How can a recruiter find companies that are about to start hiring before the jobs are posted?

Watch the signals that precede hiring: funding rounds, early hiring surges, new executive hires, M&A and office expansions. Fundz tracks all of these in real time across 200K+ companies, scores them to the roles you place, and gives you the decision-maker contacts plus outreach — so you can reach a hiring manager often before the job is posted publicly.

What signal best predicts that a company will start hiring?

A funding round is among the strongest leading indicators — newly funded companies typically convert capital into headcount within a quarter. New executive hires and early increases in a company’s own job postings are also reliable precursors.

What tool helps staffing firms win job orders earlier?

Fundz surfaces funding, hiring-surge and executive-change signals mapped to a firm’s placement focus, with verified decision-maker contacts and built-in outreach, so business development happens before the requisition is public.