Custom Queries: Filter Groups
Filter groups allow you to construct more precise searches using nested AND/OR clauses within the Custom tab.
Custom Filters allow users to track company growth trends and refine searches for stealth companies, focusing on headcount changes, founder locations, and precise keyword filtering.
Note: We recommend using the General, Funding, Sector, and Team filters whenever possible. Minimizing the depth of filter groups is generally best practice.
Examples of common use
Note: The following are just a few examples of how Custom Filters can be used.
Identifying Company Growth Trends
Using Custom filters, you can identify companies that have experienced spikes in website traffic or headcount growth, both departmental and overall.
Note: Customize your search by departmental headcount changes over specified time frames—90, 180, or 360 days. You can choose to filter by absolute numbers or percentages.
Best Practices: Use the 'Headcount' metric rather than 'External Headcount'. Click here for more information on how we ensure headcount accuracy.
Enhancing search precision with highlight count
Highlight count allows you to narrow down search results based on a team's background to only include companies with teams that have a certain number of the highlights below.
Highlight Categories look at team backgrounds to flag relevant experience. Learn more here.
Founder locations relative to company headquarters
Founders are based in X, and their company headquarters are not in X.
Learn more about how we classify the different role types here.
Optimizing Searches with precise keyword filters
Leverage website text and company descriptions to identify companies at the intersection of trends precisely.
Incorporating founder backgrounds into search criteria
Create more complex criteria for the founder's background.
Learn more Learn more about how we classify highlights here.
Targeting available talent
Learn more about how we classify the different role types here.
Strategies for identifying stealth companies with precision
Tailor searches solely include stealth companies with or without a website. For stealth companies with a website, you can include "keywords" to narrow down your search results. For stealth companies. without a website, you can not use keywords or sectors to narrow down a search.
Accelerator programs
To see startups that have passed through accelerator programs, you can set specific filters within the Custom.
New Highlights: People Signals
Leverage these to identify recent stealth founders, prior founders who hit their vesting cliff, prior founders working in an operational role, unique individuals who have experience in more than 3 departments, and available talent who left their company recently.
These new highlights can be utilized in your searches. Learn more here.