Markets

Trends

Before you pick which companies to call, pick where to look. Trends shows which industries and cities are heating up or cooling down in funding, acquisitions and hiring, so you spend your week where the money is moving.

What Trends shows you

Trends adds up everything Fundz tracks and shows it by industry and by location, compared with the period before. When a sector or a city is speeding up, the companies in it tend to have fresh money and open budgets. When it is slowing down, you'll see that too.

Heating up and cooling down

The industries and places gaining the most activity, and the ones losing it, against the previous period. Also the places where activity is appearing for the first time.

Where it's happening

A map and tables of the top locations and top industries: where money is being raised, where buyers are based, and where companies are hiring.

Over time

A chart of how activity has moved across the period, so a one-day spike is easy to tell apart from a real trend.

Your market

The same numbers for the industries and locations in your own targeting, so you can see how your patch compares with everyone else's.

How to use it

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Click Trends under Tools in the left menu, or go to Trends.
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Pick a tab at the top: Funding, M&A or Hiring.
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Choose a period: the last 7, 14, 30 or 90 days. Shorter periods show what just changed; longer ones show steady movement. On Funding you can also pick a stage, from Pre-Seed & Seed up to Growth / Late.
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Read Heating up and Cooling down first, then the locations and industries tables.
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Check the block for your own industries and locations to see how your market is moving.
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Take the industries and places that stand out into Fundings, Acquisitions or Hiring Intel, filter to them, and start working the companies inside.

Direction beats rank

The segment at the top of the list may already be crowded. The ones gaining ground fastest, even from a small base, are often where nobody else is calling yet.

Signals moving together

Two more tabs look at leading signs rather than single events. Both cover the last 90 days.

Compound

Industries where companies are raising money, hiring fast, building out offices and filing trademarks at the same time. Several signals lining up is a stronger sign of growth than any one on its own.

TM Velocity

How fast companies in each industry are filing new product and brand trademarks, an early hint of what is about to be launched.

A simple weekly habit

Once a week, open Trends, note the two or three industries or cities speeding up fastest in your market, then build your list from the companies inside them. Add the best ones to My targets. For a forward look at individual companies, such as who is likely to raise or be acquired next, see Predictive Intelligence.

Last updated September 2026