# Book demos with CTOs at SaaS companies that just raised a Series A

300 accounts and 600 people, 600 LinkedIn connection requests and about 378 verified work emails for the follow-up.

Family: [Funding signals](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/funding-signals.md) · HTML page: https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/funding-series-a-ctos

## Give this to your agent

```text
Using RouterGrowth, run this workflow: Book demos with CTOs at SaaS companies that raised a Series A in the last 90 days. LinkedIn connection request, then email. 300 companies.
Show me the price before every call, and stop after each stage with a sample of the results so I can adjust.

1. Source the accounts: company.search x 30 searches. Companies matching the industry, size and location, ten or so per search.
2. Qualify on the signal: company.funding x 300 companies. Keep the accounts where the trigger is real; the rest never reach outreach.
3. Find the people: people.search x 600 profiles. 2 contacts per account by title and seniority, with current role.
4. Get the contact: contact.find x 420 (600 tried, 70% found), contact.verify x 420 verdicts. Charged on a match only: a miss is free, so the estimate is a ceiling.
5. Context for the first line: web.scrape x 300 pages, social.posts x 1,800 posts. One page per account and a few recent posts per person, so the opener is about them.
6. Run the outreach: email.send x 1,134 (378 contacts x 3 steps), linkedin.invite x 600 requests, linkedin.message x 180 (30% accepted). Connection request first, email to the rest; both from accounts you own.
7. Read the replies: email.messages x 114 inbox reads, linkedin.messages x 60 inbox reads. Poll the inboxes, classify replies, hand the warm ones to a human.

Before sending: email.domain x 1, email.inbox x 2, on a domain I own.

Budget for one run: about $38.01 plus $6.98 one-time setup. Run routergrowth inspect on any capability before the first call to confirm the quote.
```

## Why this works

A Series A comes with a hiring plan and a list of things the seed-stage stack cannot do. The CTO has budget for the first time and about two quarters to show the board progress.

The first line, as your agent would write it:

> Congratulations on the Series A. Most teams at this point find the first thing to break is the part they built in a weekend. What is yours?

## The workflow, stage by stage

Source the accounts → Qualify on the signal → Find the people → Get the contact → Context for the first line → Run the outreach → Read the replies

| # | Stage | Calls | Cost |
|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Source the accounts | `company.search` x 30 | $0.07 |
| 2 | Qualify on the signal | `company.funding` x 300 | $12.60 |
| 3 | Find the people | `people.search` x 600 | $0.23 |
| 4 | Get the contact | `contact.find` x 420, `contact.verify` x 420 | $8.69 |
| 5 | Context for the first line | `web.scrape` x 300, `social.posts` x 1,800 | $5.28 |
| 6 | Run the outreach | `email.send` x 1,134, `linkedin.invite` x 600, `linkedin.message` x 180 | $10.79 |
| 7 | Read the replies | `email.messages` x 114, `linkedin.messages` x 60 | $0.35 |
| + | One-time setup | `email.domain` x 1, `email.inbox` x 2 | $6.98 once |

One run: $38.01 for 5,958 calls. Assumptions: 2 contacts per account unless the brief says otherwise, 70% email find rate, 90% verification pass, 3 emails per contact, 30% LinkedIn accept rate. Prices are the catalog's at the time this page was built; `routergrowth inspect` returns the exact quote before a call.

### Source the accounts

Companies matching the industry, size and location, ten or so per search.

### Qualify on the signal

Keep the accounts where the trigger is real; the rest never reach outreach.

### Find the people

2 contacts per account by title and seniority, with current role.

### Get the contact

Charged on a match only: a miss is free, so the estimate is a ceiling.

### Context for the first line

One page per account and a few recent posts per person, so the opener is about them.

### Run the outreach

Connection request first, email to the rest; both from accounts you own.

### Read the replies

Poll the inboxes, classify replies, hand the warm ones to a human.

## Run it from the command line

```bash
# RouterGrowth workflow: Book demos with CTOs at SaaS companies that raised a Series A in the last 90 days. LinkedI
npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup

# one-time setup
routergrowth run -c email.domain -i '{"domain":"<domain>"}'
routergrowth run -c email.inbox -i '{}'

# 01 Source the accounts  (company.search x 30)
routergrowth run -c company.search -i '{"query":"<query>"}'

# 02 Qualify on the signal  (company.funding x 300)
routergrowth run -c company.funding -i '{"domain":"<domain>"}'

# 03 Find the people  (people.search x 600)
routergrowth run -c people.search -i '{}'

# 04 Get the contact  (contact.find x 420, contact.verify x 420)
routergrowth run -c contact.find -i '{"first_name":"<first_name>","last_name":"<last_name>","company_domain":"<company_domain>"}'
routergrowth run -c contact.verify -i '{"email":"<email>"}'

# 05 Context for the first line  (web.scrape x 300, social.posts x 1800)
routergrowth run -c web.scrape -i '{"url":"<url>"}'
routergrowth run -c social.posts -i '{"platform":"<platform>","handle":"<handle>"}'

# 06 Run the outreach  (email.send x 1134, linkedin.invite x 600, linkedin.message x 180)
routergrowth run -c email.send -i '{"inbox_id":"<inbox_id>","to":"<to>"}'
routergrowth run -c linkedin.invite -i '{}'
routergrowth run -c linkedin.message -i '{"text":"<text>"}'

# 07 Read the replies  (email.messages x 114, linkedin.messages x 60)
routergrowth run -c email.messages -i '{"inbox_id":"<inbox_id>"}'
routergrowth run -c linkedin.messages -i '{}'
```

## Questions

### How do I get a list of recently funded startups?

company.search sources companies in the segment and company.funding returns each one's rounds with amounts, dates and investors. The agent keeps the companies whose latest round falls inside the window you set, for example the last 90 days.

### How soon after a round should I reach out?

Inside the first quarter. Hiring plans and tool budgets are set in the weeks after the money lands, and the announcement is still a natural reason to write.

### Who is the buyer at a funded startup?

At seed, the founder. From Series A, the leader of the function the round is meant to grow: the CTO, the VP of Marketing, the head of sales. Each workflow names the title it looks for.

### Do I pay for companies that turn out not to have raised?

No. company.funding is charged only when funding data exists for the company, and the contact lookups that follow are charged on a match only, so an account dropped at the signal stage costs nothing further.

### What does this workflow cost to run?

About $38.01 for one run of 5,958 calls, plus $6.98 once for the sending inboxes. Each call is quoted before it runs and a lookup that finds nothing is not charged, so the figure is a ceiling. There is no subscription: the run is paid from a prepaid balance.

## Related

- [Email founders of seed-stage startups that raised this quarter](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/funding-seed-founders.md)
- [Reach marketing leaders at Series B companies](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/funding-series-b-marketing.md)
- [Reach CFOs at fintech companies that raised recently](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/funding-fintech-cfos.md)
- [Reach operations leaders at funded healthtech startups](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/funding-healthtech-ops.md)
- Guide: [Buying signals: score accounts on hiring, funding and tech changes](https://www.routergrowth.com/use-cases/company-buying-signals.md)
- Guide: [How to find high-intent leads from hiring signals](https://www.routergrowth.com/use-cases/find-high-intent-leads.md)
- Skill: [Cold email pipeline](https://www.routergrowth.com/skills/cold-email-pipeline.md)
- Skill: [Multichannel intent outbound](https://www.routergrowth.com/skills/multichannel-intent-outbound.md)

Adjust the volumes and assumptions: https://www.routergrowth.com/free-gtm-tools/workflow-generator#q=Book%20demos%20with%20CTOs%20at%20SaaS%20companies%20that%20raised%20a%20Series%20A%20in%20the%20last%2090%20days.%20LinkedIn%20connection%20request%2C%20then%20email.%20300%20companies.