How do you find funding data in Clay? Well, there's actually a bunch of ways and it really just depends on what you're trying to do and how you're going to use that data. Sometimes you want company level funding info. Other times you're looking for the investors and who invested in them. Or maybe you simply just want to layer funding as your filter. So, in this video, I'm going to show you the main ways how to find funding data in Clay and when to use them. Keep watching. And now that we're inside of CL, do you need all that waterfall enrichment? Yes and no. Honestly, guys, it really depends on what you're trying to do, what you want, and why you need it to determine what your action should be. So, this is why I'm going to help you out. I'm going to help you figure it out and we're going to go through each one of them together. So, let's start with investors. You could see here that I ran a waterfall to find the investors of these companies. Now, when you run this waterfall, the only thing you'll get is the list of investors separated by um commas. And that's it. And this could be pretty pricey, especially if you're going to make it run by Crunchb. But yeah, that's 10 per row that ran. And this is just a list of 20 contacts. So, um very easily that gets super expensive. So, for me, what I think is much better when it comes to that is using predict leads. That's just one clay credit to run this. And you could see that it actually found three more investors that this waterfall missed. And uh what else I really like about it, right, is that yes, it's telling me how many investors it could it found, but it also gives me like the investor's domain. It could give me a source, the time that it saw it, all of that. And to me, that information is super valuable, right? So for investors, I would go with predict leads. Next, let's take a look at what it's like looking for funding stage. Here I have a waterfall. And quite honestly, if you're looking for tech companies or like SAS companies that are developing software and products, maybe this might be the best thing because you do get access to Crunchb like a different variety of tools, right? But if you're someone who are more looking for like services companies and companies outside of that, this wouldn't be the way I would go. All right, I would probably go with an AI researcher. Okay. Now, do keep in mind this is totally dependent on you. So, for example, something like Crunchb is pulling from their database itself. So, that might be like the best way for you to get the most accurate data. while the AI researcher, he's just going to find what is available on the web. Okay, so those two things to keep in mind. Now, finding total funding. Okay. Okay. Okay. This is really dependent on what you're looking to do with that numerical data. And here's why. If it is super important that you get the most accurate number you could possibly find, you need to run this waterfall. But if you need it for something that's just more for qualifying, say um companies that have a raise at least over five million, then this wouldn't be the way. Again, pricey, it's expensive. I would then recommend to go with an AI researcher and in this case, your bestie client. Now, why I probably will use Clay for this entire thing. Well, I could control the data that I wanted to look for, how I want the data to come out. additional things that I'm looking for and I could only get it all for about two to four credits depending on my ask. In this case, this was about two I think two or three credits and I asked it exactly what I wanted exactly how I wanted to output the information. I could have even asked it for the links over here for these investors and you could see if you compare the data with everything else what was missing they couldn't find and they found very similar numbers to the total funding waterfall that ran. So you tell me which one would you choose? I would void client.