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Trends

See where capital, hiring, and M&A are moving by industry and geography — movers, time series, and segment rollups you can act on.

What Trends shows you

Trends rolls every signal Fundz tracks up to the market level so you can see where momentum is building before it's obvious. Instead of one company at a time, you're looking at whole industries and geographies: where funding is flowing, where companies are hiring, and where M&A activity is concentrating.

Use it to choose where to spend your time. When a sector or region is accelerating, the companies inside it tend to have fresh capital and active budgets — the kind of accounts worth prioritizing. When a segment is cooling, you'll see that too.

Movers

Industries and segments ranked by activity, with the direction and pace of change so you can tell what's heating up from what's already peaked.

Geography

The same view by location — cities, regions, and countries — so you can see where activity is concentrating and where new pockets are emerging.

Time series

How a segment has moved over your chosen window, so a single spike is easy to separate from a sustained trend.

How to read the views

Each view is a rollup of underlying signals over a time window you control. Read it in two passes: first the ranking to see who's at the top, then the direction of change to see who's actually accelerating.

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    Open Trends from the main navigation and pick a time window. Shorter windows surface breaking shifts; longer windows reveal sustained, macro movement.
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    Scan the movers — the industries and segments leading the period — to orient yourself on where the activity is.
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    Switch to the geography view to see the same activity by location and find regional pockets that map to your territory.
  4. 4
    Open a time series for any segment you care about to confirm whether it's a one-off spike or a durable trend before you commit time to it.
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    Carry the segments that stand out into Fundings to pull the specific rounds, then into a company's profile to act.
Read direction, not just rank
A segment near the top of the list isn't necessarily the opportunity — it may already be saturated. The ones gaining ground fastest, even from a lower base, are often where you'll find under-worked accounts.

Compound Signal Trends and Trademark Velocity

Beyond the headline capital, hiring, and M&A views, Trends includes a couple of higher-order lenses that look at how signals move together.

Compound Signal Trends

Surfaces segments where multiple independent signals are rising at once — for example funding alongside hiring and expansion — rather than a single lane moving on its own. Convergence across lanes is a stronger, harder-to-fake indicator than any one signal in isolation.

Trademark Velocity

Tracks the pace of new trademark activity as an early read on where companies are preparing to launch or expand. It works as a corroborating, forward-leaning signal — useful as a tiebreaker when you're deciding which segments to chase.
Treat these as directional
These views read intent, not certainty. Use them to prioritize and to corroborate the capital and hiring picture — then confirm the specifics on the individual company profiles.

Stealth-Mode Inflection and Distress Cohort feeds

Two additional feeds are built for finding the segments most others miss — one on the way up, one on the way down.

Stealth-Mode Inflection

Highlights segments showing the early, quiet signs of companies that are building momentum before they've made noise — so you can engage ahead of the crowd rather than after the announcement.

Distress Cohort

Surfaces segments under pressure, where the activity pattern is turning the other way. Depending on what you sell, that's either a segment to avoid or exactly the cohort to approach with the right offer.
On Strategic
Stealth-Mode Inflection and Distress Cohort feeds are part of the Strategic plan. See the current plan comparison at fundz.net/pricing.

Putting Trends to work

Trends is the top of your funnel: it tells you which segments deserve attention this week. Pair it with the rest of Fundz to turn a hot segment into a worked account.

Drill from a standout segment into Fundings to see the actual rounds driving it, then open the company profiles to check signals and contacts. For a forward-looking read on what individual companies in a segment are likely to do next, pair Trends with Predictive Intelligence, which adds ML predictions and anomaly detection on top of the same underlying signals.

A good weekly rhythm: review the movers and geography, note the two or three segments accelerating fastest, then build your prospecting list from the companies inside them.

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