How we build the list

The sources, the scoring, and the things we deliberately don't do. If you're going to act on our list, you should know exactly where it comes from.

What we actually do each week

Every week we read the public record of startup funding, pull out the rounds worth selling into, and turn each one into a usable sales entry: the company, the round, the investors, who to contact, and an angle you could open with. The current week's top accounts are always free to read on the sample page — no signup.

Where the data comes from

Everything starts from public funding announcements. We read 50+ sources so you don't have to, including:

• FinSMEs, EU-Startups and Tech.eu — high-volume daily funding coverage
• TechCrunch funding reporting and Crunchbase news — the larger rounds
• Regional and sector outlets that break rounds before the aggregators pick them up

Every entry links back to its source article, so you can read the original announcement yourself. Nothing in the list comes from a private database, a data broker, or scraped personal information.

How the fit score works

Each account gets a heat score from 0 to 100 — a single number for "how worth your time is this account, right now." It weighs four things:

• Round size vs. deal potential — a round big enough to fund real spending, but not so big the buyer is unreachable.
• Recency — the fresher the raise, the higher the score. The window closes fast.
• What the money is for — rounds earmarked for hiring, GTM, product or a market push score higher, because they map to real buying.
• Reachability — whether there's a clear person to contact and a credible reason to reach them now.

A high score is not a promise the deal will close — it's a ranking of where to spend your first hour. You bring the judgment; we bring the shortlist.

What we don't do

The gaps matter as much as the features:

• We don't sell your data or anyone else's. The list is built from public news, full stop.
• We don't guarantee contact details. We tell you the role to contact; every issue says "verify before outreach" because you should confirm the person and address before you send.
• We don't pad the list. A quiet week is a short list. We'd rather ship 12 real accounts than 40 filler ones.
• We don't do the outreach for you. The angle is a starting point, not a template to blast. Personalize it.

Automated, then sanity-checked

The pipeline runs automatically every Monday — fresh funding feeds in, the accounts come out scored and written up. It's a machine doing the reading you don't have time for. Public sources sometimes get a round size or a name wrong; that's why the source link is always there and why the standing advice is to verify before you act.

Want to see it? This week's issue is free to read, and there's a full guide on selling to newly funded startups if you're new to funding-signal outreach.