# Reach startups that just raised in your market. Founders and verified emails, from the news Recently funded companies often buy the tools and services they postponed. With Agentik, your AI finds this month’s funding news with Serper and Exa, finds the founders and executives with Leadsforge, and finds and verifies their emails with Icypeas. - For: Sales teams and agencies selling to startups - Providers: 4 (Serper, Exa, Leadsforge and Icypeas), 5 tools - Example (3 news searches, one Exa news search, 25 companies, 50 founders and executives, 25 emails found and verified): at most $0.62, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-10-10 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **Serper** (1 tool, at most $0.03): Google News results for funding announcements in your market. - **Exa** (1 tool, at most $0.07): News search by meaning, to catch rounds described in other words. - **Leadsforge** (1 tool, free): The founders and executives at each funded company. - **Icypeas** (2 tools, at most $0.53): Their work emails, found and verified. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: recently funded companies. Find startups in my market that just raised. First ask me for my market, the round stages and the titles I sell to. Search funding news from the last 30 days with serper/news and exa/search. Find the founders and executives at those companies with leadsforge/search-people. Find their emails with icypeas/find-emails-batch and verify them with icypeas/verify-emails-batch. Finish with a table (company, round, amount, date, lead investor, person, verified email) and a congratulation line for each that says why I am writing. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - Your market - Round stages - Titles you sell to ## What you get: a list of funded startups with founders’ emails - Startups that raised in the last 30 days - Round, amount and lead investor - Founders and executives with verified emails - A first line for each ## How to find recently funded companies in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: 3 news searches, one Exa news search, 25 companies, 50 founders and executives, 25 emails found and verified. ### 1. Find funding news Serper searches Google News for funding announcements in your market, and Exa finds rounds described in other words. - [Google News search](/tools/serper/news.md) `serper/news` (Serper, 3 searches): at most $0.03 - [Exa web search](/tools/exa/search.md) `exa/search` (Exa, 25 articles): at most $0.07 ### 2. Find the founders Leadsforge finds the founders and executives at each funded company. - [Leadsforge people search](/tools/leadsforge/search-people.md) `leadsforge/search-people` (Leadsforge, 50 people): free ### 3. Find and verify emails Icypeas finds their work emails, then checks each one. - [Icypeas email finder in batch](/tools/icypeas/find-emails-batch.md) `icypeas/find-emails-batch` (Icypeas, 25 people): at most $0.48 - [Icypeas email verification in batch](/tools/icypeas/verify-emails-batch.md) `icypeas/verify-emails-batch` (Icypeas, 25 emails): at most $0.05 ### 4. Write the list Your AI writes the list with the round, amount and lead investor, and a congratulation line that says why you write. Example total: at most $0.62. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Which legal tech startups raised a seed round this month? - Find founders of fintech companies that raised a Series A in France, with emails. - Build a list of startups that just raised and need a design agency. - Write a congratulation line for each founder that says why I’m writing. ## Why through Agentik - News, people and emails come from Serper, Exa, Leadsforge and Icypeas through one connection. - News searches cost cents; emails found are the largest share of the price. ## Good to know - Amounts and investors come from the articles; your AI links each one. - Newly funded founders get many emails; a specific, useful first line matters more than volume. ## When to use something else For a full funding database with investors and history, use a startup data provider. This playbook builds this month’s list from the news. ## Recently funded companies: questions ### Where do amounts and investors come from? From the articles found. Your AI links each one. ### Won’t founders get many emails? Yes, which is why a specific, useful first line matters more than volume. ### What does the example cost? At most $0.62, reserved before each call and settled at the measured usage. ## Keep going - [B2B lead list](/b2b-lead-list.md): People who match your buyer, emails found by two providers and verified, and a recent news hook for each company. - [Prospects from job posts](/hiring-signal-prospects.md): Companies hiring for the role your product helps, found on LinkedIn and Google Jobs, with the head of that team and a verified email. - [Investor target list](/investor-list.md): Funds that led rounds in your space recently, their thesis read on their own sites, the partners to contact and their emails. - [B2B data and enrichment tools for your agent](/tools/enrichment.md) - [News tools for your agent](/tools/news.md) - [Company data tools for your agent](/tools/company.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/funded-companies) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)