Who evaluates work emails 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 work emails · plus other teams on ForagerSelected teams using Forager for work emails
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.
HubSpot
CRM add-ons
Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.
DealSource
VC & PE research
Selected use case: company and people data for private-company profiles.
Chamaeleon
VC & PE research
Early-stage venture firm that analyses companies with its own AI and quantitative engine.
QuruAI
VC & PE research
Expert-research platform that matches a research thesis to operators and practitioners for AI-led interviews.
Evident
Market intelligence
Publisher of the Evident AI Index, which ranks banks, insurers and payments firms on AI maturity.
Andela
Customer
Selected use case: Forager data for the go-to-market team at a global talent marketplace.
“We use Forager to enrich our contact data with email addresses and mobile phone numbers. After analyzing all the data providers we use, we found Forager to deliver the best overall data quality.”
AndelaRyley L.Growth Marketing Associate
800M+people
65M+companies
How to test it
Test work emails 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 work emails?
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Let dealmakers build private-company target lists, attach owners and leadership, and find best-fit buyers for sell-side mandates. Verified work email addresses for a person at their current employer.
What do work emails cost for VC and PE research?
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Work emails: 5 credits per work email found, and a work email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. That is $0.07 per work email on Starter month to month and $0.05 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 work emails?
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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 work emails 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 mandate profile and screening criteria. You get back acquirer list, corp-dev contacts, owner/leadership contacts and target long-list, from POST /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/, 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 work email is found?
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No. A work email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits, so you pay for work emails we find. Search, enrichment and reverse lookups are the exception: they are charged per request.
Can VC and PE research test work emails 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 M&A advisors build target lists of private companies?
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Screen private companies in company_feed (industry, employees, location, founded date). Reveal work_email and mobile for outreach targets via contact endpoints.
How do you check data quality?
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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 a work email finder different from guessing the email pattern?
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A pattern guess (first.last@company.com) gives you an address that may not exist or may belong to someone who left. A work email lookup returns the address for that person at their current employer, and with Forager a work email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits.
Where can I use Forager work emails?
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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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