Funding Trigger

Funding Trigger is a Claude skill that builds a claude funding signal list from LeadOcean data. You name a stage and a year. It returns the companies whose last round matches, the senior buyers inside them and work emails for the top contacts.

What it does

A funding round is a sales trigger: a company with new money has budget and a hiring plan. The skill finds those companies and the people who sign off on spend.

You set the stage (Seed, Series A, Series B and so on), the earliest year of the last round, and optionally a job function, a country and a headcount bracket. The defaults are Series A and B, last calendar year, C-level and VP.

It sizes the list first, which is free. Then it pulls the companies, the buyers and a handful of emails.

One limit to know. LeadOcean stores the year of a company's last round, not the announcement date, and the data refreshes monthly. The skill lists companies by round and year. It does not alert you on the day a round is announced.

How it works

The skill is a SKILL.md file. It tells Claude which tools to call and in what order.

1. list_enum_values checks stage names against the exact funding_type strings. Free.
2. count_leads sizes the buyers at those companies for your filters. Free.
3. search_companies lists the funded companies, up to 25. 1 record per company returned.
4. search_leads lists the buyers across those domains, up to 50. 1 record per person returned.
5. get_lead with reveal_email: true returns the work email and its status for the top contacts. 1 record each, at most two per company.

If the count is 0, the skill retries once with an earlier year, then stops. It shows the budget before it spends anything.

How to use it

1. Download the zip: Download funding-trigger.zip.
2. Unzip it and add the funding-trigger folder as a skill in Claude.
3. Connect LeadOcean at https://api.leadocean.io/mcp and sign in with OAuth.
4. Ask: "Find Series A companies funded since 2025, VPs of Sales, US only".

You need a LeadOcean account. The free plan gives you 1,000 records, one-off, no card.

Sample output

The sizing step is free, so we ran the buyer part of it on 1 October 2026 with count_leads. Counts cover mailable people only (verified, catch_all_valid, catch_all), the default for count_leads. The free count does not reliably apply the funding filters. These numbers size the buyers at US companies of the size you pick. The funding filter narrows the list at search time.

The funding stage and year then narrow the list when the skill runs search_companies. If the funding filter returns nothing for a very recent year, the skill retries once with an earlier year. Last calendar year is the safe default.

The companies, buyers and emails need search_companies, search_leads and get_lead, which spend records.

Output format (placeholder values)

Funding trigger list
As of 1 October 2026. Stages: Series A. Last round since 2025.
Mailable people at these levels across all matching companies: 1,234

Funded companies
| Company | Domain | Industry | Size | HQ | Last round | Year |
| Acme | acme.com | Software | 51-200 | US | Series A | 2025 |

Buyers
| Company | Name | Title | Level | LinkedIn |
| Acme | Jane Doe | VP Sales | VP | https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe |

Contacts to start with
| Name | Company | Work email | Email status |
| Jane Doe | Acme | jane@acme.com | verified |

Records spent: 35

The title line is a Markdown H1 and each section title is an H2. Any field the skill cannot find reads "not on file".

Records per run

The free plan's 1,000 records cover about 28 default runs. On Pro ($499 a month) there is no per-record price. Fair use applies, as described on the pricing page.

Related skills

• Account Researcher: a full brief on one funded company.
• Enrich Company: one company profile from a domain.
• Find Phone Number: a phone for one named contact.
• All Claude skills

Background reading: triggers, trigger marketing and what a sales trigger is.

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