Key Takeaway
Company Founded Date extracts structured professional data from any LinkedIn profile URL — including headline, experience, education, skills, and certifications — at 1 credit per run. It is part of SyncGTM's 75+ enrichment library and is available via CLI and MCP.
What is Company Founded Date Action?
Company Founded Date is an enrichment action that looks up when a company was originally founded. Given a domain or company name, it returns the founding year along with contextual details about the company's age and maturity stage. This data point is valuable for sales teams who need to quickly gauge whether a prospect is an early-stage startup, a growth-stage scaleup, or an established enterprise.
Founding date is one of the simplest yet most actionable firmographic fields. It helps segment companies by maturity, identify fast-growing startups worth targeting, and filter out organizations that may be too new or too established for your ideal customer profile. SyncGTM resolves founding dates from multiple business registries, Crunchbase data, and company profiles to return accurate results even for lesser-known companies.
This action uses waterfall enrichment to query multiple premium data providers in sequence, delivering higher match rates than single-source alternatives. Learn more about how waterfall enrichment works.
How it works
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Provide a company domain or name as input.
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SyncGTM queries business registries, company databases, and public profiles to find the founding date.
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The founding year is cross-referenced across sources for accuracy.
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The verified founding year and company age are returned in a structured format.
Use cases
ICP Filtering
Filter prospects by company age to match your ideal customer profile. Target companies founded in the last 3-5 years if you sell to startups, or established companies if you sell enterprise solutions.
Lead Scoring
Use founding date as a scoring factor. Companies at specific maturity stages may be more likely to buy your product based on historical win patterns.
Market Segmentation
Segment your total addressable market by company age to identify which maturity cohort converts best and focus your marketing budget accordingly.
Input
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| domain | string | No | The company's website domain (e.g., acme.com). |
| company_name | string | No | The company's official name. |
Output
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| company_name | string | Confirmed company name. |
| founded_year | number | The year the company was founded. |
| company_age_years | number | Number of years since founding. |
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