Who evaluates mobile numbers at VC/PE sourcing and research, and what they are judged on
Product manager who owns the enrichment feature: judged on what users see when they open a record
Engineering lead integrating the API: judged on response time and errors they can route on
Partnerships or data lead managing vendors: judged on cost per valid result
A selection of VC and PE research teams using Forager for mobile numbers · plus other teams on ForagerA selection of teams using Forager
Nooks
Power & parallel dialers
Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.
Amplemarket
AI SDRs
Selected use case: mobile numbers inside its contact waterfall.
Clay
GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager mobile numbers, emails and people data inside Clay tables.
Airscale
Waterfall enrichment
Selected use case: a Forager step in its mobile number waterfall.
Evident
Market intelligence
Publisher of the Evident AI Index, which ranks banks, insurers and payments firms on AI maturity.
Orbital
Lead databases
Selected use case: contact lookups in its enrichment waterfall, for teams selling to local businesses.
BetterContact
Waterfall enrichment
Selected use case: a Forager step in its waterfall for mobile numbers.
QuruAI
VC & PE research
Expert-research platform that matches a research thesis to operators and practitioners for AI-led interviews.
“Forager's great for accuracy, the numbers we get from them are consistently the highest grade for accuracy and confidence. They've earned our trust when connect rates matter most.”
OrbitalAaron JosephHead of BizOps
800M+people
65M+companies
How to test it
Test mobile numbers on your own sample
Pull a sample. Take profiles your users looked up last week.
Run it. Use a self-serve key, or book a demo and send us the list.
Measure what your users feel. Connect rate for mobiles, bounces for emails, and whether the right person answers.
How do VC and PE research use Forager mobile numbers?
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Let dealmakers build private-company target lists, attach owners and leadership, and find best-fit buyers for sell-side mandates. Direct mobile numbers for a person, from a LinkedIn URL or a Forager person ID, validated before they reach you. This page walks through 2 workflows with the exact steps.
What do mobile numbers cost for VC and PE research?
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Mobile numbers: 15 credits per mobile number found, and a mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. That is $0.20 per mobile number on Starter month to month and $0.15 on Pro with yearly billing. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices
Why do VC and PE research add mobile numbers?
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Source founders and operators without scraping profiles. Products like yours are judged on freshness and fields, which is why the cost that counts is per result that reaches the right person. Run your own sample to see what mobile numbers returns for your users before you build on it.
How do I find owners of private companies contact?
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Screen private companies in company_feed (industry, employees, location, founded date). Attach owners and leadership from people_feed.
What inputs does it take and what does it return?
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You send cohort size, expert profile spec and mandate profile. You get back acquirer list, contact fields, corp-dev contacts and credentials, from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/, as JSON.
Can our users see Forager data in our product?
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Yes, under platform terms. Self-serve plans cover internal use by your own team. Showing Forager contacts to your users, or passing records on, is licensed separately: talk to sales about volume and which fields your users need to see.
Am I charged when no mobile number is found?
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No. A mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits, so you pay for mobile numbers we find. Search, enrichment and reverse lookups are the exception: they are charged per request.
Can VC and PE research test mobile numbers for free?
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Yes. Create a free account at app.forager.ai: it comes with $5 in free credits and an API key, and there is no credit card to sign up. Run it on records you already know, or book a demo and send us a list: we run it and show you what we find.
How do I recruit domain experts for AI training data?
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Query people_feed or POST /person_role_search/ for credentialed titles and experience length. Filter by location and current employment for availability.
How do you check data quality?
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Forager ranked #1 of 10 in Clay's 2026 test of mobile data providers, by quality score: Clay's measure of how likely a dialled number reaches the right person. The test that counts is your own: send a list of profiles you care about. We run it and show you what we find, number by number, so you can measure hit rate and connect rate yourself.
How is a mobile number lookup API different from a contact database?
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A contact database sells access to a list, often by seat or by export. A lookup API answers one person at a time inside your product or workflow: you send the LinkedIn URL or email you already hold and get back a mobile number in one JSON response. With Forager a mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits, so you pay for numbers, not for searches.
Where can I use Forager mobile numbers?
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Native in Clay and Zapier, partner-built in Deepline and Cargo and called through the API from Make, n8n and your own code. Everything else connects through the REST API with one API key.
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