When to use it: Weekly sourcing run, or a notable operator at a target company leaves their role.
Search new founder roles with POST /person_role_search/ (role_title: founder OR co-founder, person_headline: stealth, role_position_start_date in the last 90 days)
Read prior roles and education with POST /person_detail_lookup/ to score fit with the fund thesis
Fetch a personal email via POST /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/, since a stealth company has no domain yet
Add the founder to the fund's CRM with the source and a suggested partner
Inputs
Outputs
fund thesis keywords
new founders
target employers (optional)
prior employers and education
personal email
Lead recipe 2
Review a target company's leadership team and tenure during diligence
When to use it: A deal team starts diligence or a first-round review on a target company.
Show the steps
Find current leaders with POST /person_role_search/ (organizations, role_is_current: true, role_title: chief OR vp OR head)
Find recent senior departures with the same search, role_is_current: false and role_position_end_date in the last 24 months
Read each leader's history and education with POST /person_detail_lookup/
Summarise tenure, prior employers and turnover for the investment memo
Source early deal flow from Form C filings and product launches
When to use it: Weekly sourcing run across new filings and launches.
Show the steps
Find companies with POST /organization_search/ (simple_event_source: product_hunt or form_c_sec_gov, simple_event_date_featured_start, founded_date_start)
Keep companies that fit the thesis by keywords, location and employees_range
Find founders with POST /person_role_search/ (organizations, role_title: founder OR ceo)
Score founder backgrounds with POST /person_detail_lookup/ and push the shortlist to the deal CRM
Who evaluates person enrichment 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 person enrichment · plus other teams on ForagerA selection of teams using Forager
Clay
GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager mobile numbers, emails and people data inside Clay tables.
Juicebox
AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: Forager data behind its PeopleGPT search and sourcing agents.
Nooks
Power & parallel dialers
Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.
Chamaeleon
VC & PE research
Early-stage venture firm that analyses companies with its own AI and quantitative engine.
DealSource
VC & PE research
Selected use case: company and people data for private-company profiles.
HubSpot
CRM add-ons
Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.
Evident
Market intelligence
Publisher of the Evident AI Index, which ranks banks, insurers and payments firms on AI maturity.
QuruAI
VC & PE research
Expert-research platform that matches a research thesis to operators and practitioners for AI-led interviews.
“Forager leads in accuracy across all regions, Forager's dual strength in accuracy and volume makes it a powerhouse for sales teams that are targeting businesses around the globe.”
ClayStefan K.Data Partnerships
800M+people
65M+companies
How to test it
Test person enrichment 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 person enrichment?
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Help a venture fund find people who recently left a role to start a company, often listed as "stealth", and reach them before a round is announced. A full professional profile for a person from a LinkedIn URL, email or phone: experience, education, skills and contact channels. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.
What does person enrichment cost for VC and PE research?
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Person enrichment: 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. 1,000 person enrichments use 1,000 credits: about $13 of Starter credits month to month, or about $10 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 person enrichment?
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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 person enrichment returns for your users before you build on it.
How do I find stealth startup founders?
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Search new founder roles with POST /person_role_search/ (role_title: founder OR co-founder, person_headline: stealth, role_position_start_date in the last 90 days). Fetch a personal email via POST /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/, since a stealth company has no domain yet.
What inputs does it take and what does it return?
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You send fund thesis keywords, date window and leadership title keywords. You get back current leadership team, event URL and date, expert candidates and founder background, from POST /person_detail_lookup/, 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 data 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 nothing is found?
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Yes. Person enrichment is charged per request, whether or not data comes back. Only mobile and email lookups are free when nothing is found, so try your inputs on a small run before you scale.
Can VC and PE research test person enrichment 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 can a PE team review a target's management team quickly?
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Find current leaders with POST /person_role_search/ (organizations, role_is_current: true, role_title: chief OR vp OR head). Find recent senior departures with the same search, role_is_current: false and role_position_end_date in the last 24 months.
How accurate is Forager data?
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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 person enrichment different from scraping profiles myself?
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Scraping means running and repairing your own collection pipeline and deciding what to do when a page changes. Person enrichment returns a structured profile (experience, education, skills and contact channels) from one API call, from data Forager licenses and maintains.
Where can I use Forager person enrichment?
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Native in Clay, 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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