Get a list of startups that just raised money, with the amount, the investors and the pages that reported it, then find the right person to contact at each one. Add the Firecrawl plugin and ChatGPT can search startup funding rounds through Firecrawl Alexandria, where Fireround tracks rounds from pre-seed to growth and Apollo covers the people at each company.
Best for
- Sales and partnerships teams who want accounts that have fresh budget.
- Job seekers who want to write to founders at companies that are about to hire.
- Founders and investors keeping an eye on who raised in their sector and who backed them.
Plugins and data providers
Plugin: the Firecrawl plugin. Lets ChatGPT call Fireround and Apollo, charging each call to your Firecrawl credits.
Data providers in Firecrawl Alexandria
| Provider | Tool | Role in the search |
|---|---|---|
| Fireround | Search funding rounds | Rounds filtered by announcement date, stage, sector, minimum USD size, certainty or a word in a company or investor name, with amount, lead and other investors, and sources. |
| Fireround | Trending funding rounds | Rounds first seen in the last three days, ranked by people posting about them on X, press outlets covering them and Hacker News points. |
| Fireround | A company's funding rounds | Every round on record for one company, newest first, from a domain or name. |
| Apollo | People search | Free. Shows who holds a given title at a company domain, with a flag for whether Apollo has their email. |
| Apollo | Person match | The work email, its status and job history for one person you picked. 30 credits per matched person. |
Explore Firecrawl Alexandria data providers across categories
Starter prompt
Change the sector, stages and window to fit what you're looking for:
@firecrawl Find startups that just raised money. Use Fireround through
Firecrawl Alexandria to search fintech seed and Series A rounds announced
in the last 14 days, and show me the price of each tool before you run it.
For each round, give me:
- Company, what it does and where it's based.
- Stage as written, amount in USD and as written, and the date.
- Lead investors and other investors.
- Certainty, the source count and a link to the official announcement.
Skip anything not announced on the record. Don't guess missing amounts.Before you start
- Get the plugin. The install button sits just below these three steps.
- Link your Firecrawl account. Lookups draw on its credits. If you don't have one, sign up first.
- Decide what counts as a round. Fireround returns announced, reported and expected rounds by default, so ask for announced only if you want closed deals.
Limitations of using ChatGPT to find startups that just raised money
Funding news breaks in many places at once, and the first version is often not the final one. Six problems follow from that.
- Last week's rounds aren't in the model. OpenAI says ChatGPT's answers don't include events past its training cutoff unless a tool is used (OpenAI). A seed round announced on Tuesday simply isn't there.
- The news is spread out. Crunchbase builds its funding records from direct input by companies and investors plus more than 1,000 news outlets and government filings (Crunchbase). A web search in ChatGPT reads only a few pages from that spread.
- Talks get reported as rounds. Reuters reported in July 2024 that Magic was in talks to raise over $200 million, based on three sources (Reuters). A summary can easily turn "in talks" into "raised".
- Headline numbers can mislead. TechCrunch reported that some of Aaru's Series A equity was bought at a $1 billion valuation and the rest lower, for a blended figure under $1 billion, and that the exact round size couldn't be learned (TechCrunch). Ranking rounds by such figures compares unlike things.
- Filings trail the money. A US startup relying on Regulation D files Form D within 15 calendar days after the first investor is irrevocably committed (SEC), and the form is a brief notice with basic details such as the offering size and the date of first sale (Investor.gov). A filing can appear up to two weeks after the money was committed, with none of the story around it.
- Invented investors. ChatGPT can produce made-up quotes and citations to sources that don't exist (OpenAI), and OpenAI's research says models tend to guess with confidence when they don't know (OpenAI). A well-known fund next to a hot startup is an easy guess to make.
How it works
Behind each answer, ChatGPT uses:
- Firecrawl Alexandria: where ChatGPT finds a funding or people tool and calls it. Apollo is one of 100+ official providers paid under agreement for their data, and the catalog also includes Fireround plus Firecrawl's Research, Developer, Government and web indexes. Over 845 tasks in Firecrawl's evals, agents using it scored 21% better on answer quality than the same agents relying on built-in web search.
- Checked rounds: Fireround collects rounds from across the open web and reads each one back against the pages it came from. Every round carries the sentence that states it, up to five source pages with the official announcement first, a total source count, and flags for whether it was verified or is still provisional.
- Certainty labels: each round is announced, reported, expected or unconfirmed, and you can filter on that. In a direct Fireround call on Oct 9, 2026, a Series B extension reported by Forbes from a person familiar with the deal came back as reported, with two sources.
- People next: Apollo's people search shows who works at a funded company before anything is spent, and you pay only for the people you choose to match.
Finding recently funded startups in ChatGPT with and without Firecrawl Alexandria
| Searching the web from ChatGPT | Asking Fireround and Apollo | |
|---|---|---|
| Where rounds come from | Training data and whatever articles a search turns up | Fireround's round records, queried when you ask |
| Filters | Keywords in a search query | Date, stage, sector, minimum USD size, certainty and investor or company name |
| Rumor or closed | Depends on how carefully the article is read | Each round labeled announced, reported, expected or unconfirmed |
| Proof | Citations that may not match the claim | The sentence stating the round, the official announcement and up to five source pages |
| Amounts | Mixed currencies and loose phrasing | USD figure plus the amount as written and its currency |
| What's hot right now | Hard to judge | Rounds from the last three days ranked by X posters, outlets and Hacker News points |
| Source | Hard to trace | Fireround for funding and Apollo, an official provider, for people. Firecrawl Alexandria pairs them with a catalog of 100+ official providers spanning company data, markets, public records and travel. Explore the catalog |
Build your own funding-round workflow
Write the prompt around what you'll do with the list. For sales prospecting:
@firecrawl Search Fireround for AI rounds of at least $20 million announced
in the last 30 days, sorted by amount. For the top five, run a free Apollo
people search on each company's domain for Head of Engineering, CTO or VP
Engineering, and tell me who has an email on file. Don't match anyone yet.For job hunting:
@firecrawl Which AI startups raised a seed or Series A in the last two
weeks? Show the amount, lead investor and what each company does,
then list the founders Apollo has for the three I'm most likely to fit as a
backend engineer.Both prompts name a window, a sector and a stage, and both stop at a free people search, so you choose who's worth paying to match.
Take it further
What's being talked about today
@firecrawl Show the 10 funding rounds trending right now with amount, lead
investors, the evidence sentence and how many outlets covered each.One company's full history
@firecrawl List every funding round Fireround has for supabase.com, with
stage, amount, date, lead investors and certainty.Follow an investor
@firecrawl Which rounds has Sequoia led or joined since September 15? Give
company, stage, amount and the other investors in each round.The biggest checks
@firecrawl Find the five largest announced AI rounds since September 1, by
USD amount, with lead investors and a link to each official announcement.Prices before anything runs
@firecrawl Which tools can find startup funding rounds or the people at a
company? List each one with its price per call.What it costs
You can browse tools and read their prices without spending anything. Running a tool is what costs credits, taken from your Firecrawl account; see Firecrawl pricing for plan allowances.
| Tool | Answers | Credits per call |
|---|---|---|
| Fireround search funding rounds | Who raised, filtered by date, stage, sector, size or investor | 5 per page |
| Fireround trending funding rounds | The most discussed rounds from the last three days | 5 per page |
| Fireround a company's funding rounds | One company's rounds, newest first | 5 per page |
| Apollo people search | Who holds a title at a company | Free |
| Apollo person match | One person's work email and job history | 30 per matched person |
After each run, ChatGPT names the tool it called and the credits it spent.
[ Funding rounds in ChatGPT ]
Install the Firecrawl plugin and ask ChatGPT which startups raised this week. Finding the right tool is free.
Related use cases
- How to generate B2B leads in ChatGPT: widen a funded-company list into accounts and contacts by size, location and title.
- How to find someone's work email in ChatGPT: get a verified address for a founder or hiring manager you've picked out.
- How to track mergers and acquisitions in ChatGPT: watch for the acquisitions that often follow a startup's later rounds.
Coverage limits
- Stage labels follow the sources. Fireround keeps the stage as written, and a round it can't map to a standard stage lands in a bucket such as other. In a direct Fireround call on Oct 9, 2026, a $150 million growth equity round was filed under other, so a stage filter can miss it.
- Amounts are normalized. Rounds in other currencies are converted to USD, and phrasing like "over $100 million" is stored as 100. Read the amount as written when precision matters.
- Announcement dates, not close dates. The date is when the round was announced. One seed round in our Oct 9, 2026 API test was announced in October after closing in July.
- No investment advice. The data shows who raised and from whom, not whether a company is a good investment.