The problem this solves
Seed-stage founders buy fast and buy personally. In the month after a round closes they are hiring, choosing tools and setting up the processes the company will run on for two years, and they answer email themselves. A month later the tooling decisions are made and the inbox is delegated. The window is short, the buyer is identifiable, and the announcement is public.
The trouble is scale. Seed rounds are announced in dozens of places, the companies rarely have a mature web presence, and founders' emails are seldom listed. Assembling a month of rounds by hand yields a spreadsheet of company names with half the founders missing and no verified addresses, delivered too late to matter. The mission has to run from the funding feed to a verified, campaign-ready audience in one pass.
How the mission runs
- Collect the month's seed announcements. The Prospecting Agent queries funding and news data for seed and pre-seed rounds announced in <month> by companies in <region>, capturing the amount, the date, the investors and the announcement source. Rounds labelled ambiguously are checked against the company's stage so a small Series A does not slip in.
- Resolve each company and its founders. Every company is resolved to a domain and profiled with firmographics, then people search identifies the founders with their roles - CEO, CTO, COO - from public profiles and the announcement itself. Companies with no findable domain are listed separately rather than dropped silently.
- Find and verify founder emails. The email finder produces a work address per founder and verification confirms deliverability. Because young companies often run catch-all domains, the status is shown per contact so you can decide how aggressively to include catch-all results.
- Load Lemlist without starting the campaign. Verified founders are pushed into Lemlist as the audience of a new campaign named <name>, with round amount, investors and announcement date as custom variables. The campaign stays unsent until you attach copy and start it.
The prompt
This is the exact objective the agent receives. Swap the obvious placeholders for your own domain, segment or channel and run it as-is from the console, Slack, or the API.
What comes back
A Lemlist campaign named <name>, unsent, whose audience is every verified founder of a company in <region> that announced a seed or pre-seed round in <month>, with round details as merge variables on each lead. The report lists the rounds found, the companies resolved, the founders identified and the verification split, and it names the companies whose founders could not be reached.
Make it yours
- Run it as a standing weekly mission so each week's new rounds are added to the same campaign audience.
- Restrict to rounds led by a named investor or above a minimum amount when you sell into better-funded seeds.
- Deliver to Instantly or Apollo instead of Lemlist, or to HubSpot when the CRM owns the sequence.
- Include rounds announced in the two months before <month> as well, marked by month, when a single month is too thin.
Frequently asked questions
How complete is coverage of seed rounds?
The funding feed covers announced rounds; unannounced or stealth rounds are outside any public source. The report shows the count found so you can compare it with your own sense of the month.
Should I include catch-all addresses?
For seed companies the catch-all share is often high. The agent keeps them marked so you can include them in a campaign with a conservative bounce threshold or hold them for a second pass.
Can it write the first touch too?
Yes. Combine it with the first-touch personalization playbook and each founder's email references their own round and investors.
Which founder should the campaign address when there are several?
The CEO by default, with the other founders loaded as separate leads marked by role, so a sequence can address the operator or the technical founder instead when your product speaks to them.