The problem this solves
A funding round buys headcount, and the first hires after a round are executives with mandates: a new CMO to build demand, a new CRO to build the sales machine, a new VP of Engineering to scale the platform. Each arrives with a budget and a plan to spend it in the first ninety days. Reaching them in that window, with the round as context, is the best-timed outreach in B2B.
The join between funding and hiring is the difficult part. Funding announcements name the round; hiring announcements name the executive; nothing connects the two unless someone reads both. The mission reads both, finds the executive with a verified address, and lays the account out with the round beside the hire, so the first message can mention both facts.
How the mission runs
- Find the recent rounds in the industry. The Signals Agent queries funding data for <industry> companies that announced a round in the last 90 days, capturing the round type, date, amount and lead investors.
- Find executives hired since the round. For each company, news and people data are checked for VP-level and C-level appointments announced after the round date. Each hire is recorded with title, start date where known and the announcement source.
- Verify the executives. The email finder and verification produce a deliverable address for each new executive, with the status recorded. Where the executive is too new to have a published address, the row says so and proposes the next contact.
- Deliver the account sheet. Google Sheets receives one row per executive with the company, the round details and the hire details side by side, grouped by company and ordered by round date so the freshest budgets sit first.
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 Google Sheet with every <industry> company that raised in the last 90 days and the executives it has hired since, each row carrying the round type, date, amount and lead investors alongside the executive's title, start date, verified email and the announcement source. Companies that raised but have announced no executive hires yet are listed on a second tab as accounts to watch.
Make it yours
- Restrict to a round size or a stage - Series B and above - when you sell to scaled companies.
- Turn the second tab into a standing watch that alerts you when a watched company announces its first post-round hire.
- Hand the sheet to the first-touch personalization playbook to draft an email per executive referencing the round.
- Post each week's new executive hires to #sales as they are announced instead of a one-off sheet.
Frequently asked questions
How does the agent find executive hires?
From news announcements and changes in people data - a new person holding a VP or C-level title at the company after the round date - with the source recorded on the row.
What if the executive has no email yet?
New executives sometimes take weeks to appear in address patterns. The row is kept with the status shown and a re-check can be scheduled.
Can the window be different for funding and hiring?
Yes. For example rounds in the last 180 days and hires in the last 60; state both windows in the prompt.
Can it include board appointments?
Yes. Board and advisor appointments announced after the round are captured when you ask, marked separately from executive hires, since they signal strategy more than budget.
Can it run for several industries?
Yes. Name them and the sheet gains an industry column, or ask for a tab per industry when the teams working them differ.