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People filters and the Employee Start Date After and Open to Work signal filters for this search type are documented in the 📄 Lead Database Filtersarticle.

Company Filters

Company Description Pattern

Category: Company
Input type: Free text (multi-value)

Search for patterns in company descriptions. Useful for identifying companies with specific business characteristics or language.

Company Domains

Category: Company
Input type: Free text (multi-value)

Search for companies by their website domain (e.g. acme.com).

Company HQ Country

Category: Company
Input type: Dropdown (multi-select, ISO country codes)

Filter companies by headquarters country code.

Company Name Contains

Category: Company
Input type: Free text (partial match)

Search for companies whose name contains any of these strings. Less strict than Company Names — useful for finding company families or naming patterns.

Company Names

Category: Company
Input type: Free text (exact match)

Filter by exact company name.

Company Size

Category: Company
Input type: Number range (min-max, e.g. 50-200)

Filter by company headcount range.

Company Type

Category: Company
Input type: Dropdown (single-select)

Restrict to companies posting their own jobs (direct employers) vs staffing agencies.

Options: direct_employer, recruiting_agency

Exclude Company Domains

Category: Company
Input type: Free text (multi-value)

Exclude companies with these website domains.

Exclude Company HQ Country

Category: Company
Input type: Dropdown (multi-select, ISO country codes)

Exclude companies headquartered in these countries.

Exclude Company Names

Category: Company
Input type: Free text (multi-value)

Exclude companies with these names.

Exclude Industry

Category: Company
Input type: Dropdown (multi-select)

Exclude companies in these industries.

Funding Stage

Category: Company
Input type: Dropdown (multi-select)

Filter companies by their latest funding stage. Values come from the funding stages list.

Industry

Category: Company
Input type: Dropdown (multi-select)

Filter companies by industry.

Max Funding (USD)

Category: Company
Input type: Number (integer ≥ 0)

Maximum total funding raised in USD.

Min Funding (USD)

Category: Company
Input type: Number (integer ≥ 0)

Minimum total funding raised in USD.

Y Combinator Only

Category: Company
Input type: Boolean (on/off)

Only include Y Combinator-backed companies.

Signal Filters

Job Location

Category: Signal (job posting)
Input type: Dropdown (multi-select)

Filter companies with job openings based in any of these locations.

Keywords in Job Post

Category: Signal (job posting)
Input type: Free text (multi-value)

Identify companies with any of these words present in their open job posts.

Not Recruiting for

Category: Signal (job posting)
Input type: Free text (multi-value)

Exclude companies that have open positions for any of these roles.

Posted in the last (days)

Category: Signal (job posting)
Input type: Number (integer ≥ 1, default 15)

Target companies whose open roles were posted within this window. Defaults to 15 days if not set.

Recruiting for

Category: Signal (job posting)
Input type: Free text (multi-value)

Target companies with open positions matching any of these job titles.

Tech Stack Excludes

Category: Signal
Input type: Dropdown (multi-select)

Exclude companies using any of these technologies.

Tech Stack Includes

Category: Signal
Input type: Dropdown (any-of, multi-select)

Target companies whose tech stack includes at least one of these tools

Tech Stack Includes All

Category: Signal
Input type: Dropdown (all-of, multi-select)

Target companies whose tech stack includes every one of these tools. Stricter than Tech Stack Includes — all listed technologies must be present.