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name: auto-prospect-funding-events
description: "Auto-Prospect Companies After Funding Announcements. Use when sales teams miss narrow timing windows when companies raise capital and need new vendors."
---

# Auto-Prospect Companies After Funding Announcements

Sales teams miss narrow timing windows when companies raise capital and need new vendors.

## When to use this skill

- The user wants to set up or run this workflow: "Auto-Prospect Companies After Funding Announcements".
- The user describes this problem: Sales teams miss narrow timing windows when companies raise capital and need new vendors.

## At a glance

- Category: Outbound
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Time saved: 8 hours per week. This figure is an estimate, not a measured result.

## Tools

Options separated by "or" are alternatives; use whichever the user already has.

- Clay
- Claygent
- Apollo
- Smartlead

## Steps

1. Create Clay table with Crunchbase API or RSS feed for funding announcements
2. Use Claygent to visit company website and extract hiring keywords
3. Filter for companies hiring in your ICP roles (e.g., "VP Sales" for sales tool vendors)
4. Use Apollo to find decision makers at those companies
5. Push prospects to Smartlead campaign with funding-specific messaging
6. Set up Slack alert for high-priority targets (Series B+ in your vertical)

## Template outline

Field names, thresholds, and message text are starting points to adapt.

~~~text
Clay Workflow:
1. Import: Crunchbase RSS or API integration
2. Filter: Funding amount > $10M, Industry matches ICP
3. Claygent: Visit /careers page, check for target roles
4. Apollo enrichment: Find VP+ contacts
5. Write to Smartlead via HTTP API
6. Zapier: Post to #sales Slack channel if amount > $50M
~~~

## Guardrails

- Work only in the user's own accounts and workspaces, with their credentials.
- Confirm with the user before any step that writes to a CRM, sends email or messages, spends credits, or moves money.
- Treat every hours, cost, and threshold figure as a starting assumption and replace it with the user's numbers.
- Do not invent data, prices, or results. If a vendor price matters, check the vendor's current pricing page.

## Source

https://gtmplaybooks.io/playbooks/auto-prospect-funding-events/