The Scenario
You are a partnership manager and your head of BD just asked you to identify 50 SaaS companies that offer HR software and raised a Series A in the last two years. He wants the list in a Google Sheet by tomorrow morning with company name, website URL, and funding round details. You have never built a list like this from scratch and you do not have a database subscription.
The bad version:
- Search Crunchbase or LinkedIn for HR software companies, filter by funding round, get a truncated list behind a paywall.
- Switch to a manual search, look up companies one by one across press releases and tech blogs.
- Try to normalize the funding data across sources that use different terminology for the same round.
Building a discovery list by hand, without a proper database, is one of those tasks where every result you find raises the question of what you missed.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. Through its built-in Parallel integration, it can run a FindAll task using a natural-language objective and write the discovered entities directly into your sheet — no database subscription, no manual searching.
Use Parallel FindAll to discover 50 SaaS companies that offer HR software and raised a Series A in the last 2 years. Write each company's name into column A, website URL into column B, and funding round details (round name, amount if available, date) into column C of this sheet.
What You Get
- Column A populated with company names matching your objective.
- Column B filled with the company website URL Parallel resolved.
- Column C containing funding round details — round name, amount, and date where Parallel could source them.
- The list sized to the count you specified (up to Parallel's FindAll limit), with partial results noted if the full count could not be reached.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The objective is too broad and the results include companies outside the target geography
Use Parallel FindAll to discover 50 SaaS companies that offer HR software, raised a Series A in the last 2 years, and are headquartered in the US, UK, Canada, or Australia. Write company name into column A, website URL into column B, and funding details into column C. For any company where geography could not be confirmed, write Unconfirmed in column D.
You want to deduplicate against an existing sheet tab that already has known companies
Use Parallel FindAll to discover 50 SaaS HR software companies that raised a Series A in the last 2 years. Write company name into column A, website URL into column B, and funding details into column C. Then check column A against the existing companies listed in the KnownAccounts tab. Mark any duplicate in column D as Already Tracked and leave new companies unmarked.
You want to run two FindAll queries with different criteria and merge the results
Run two Parallel FindAll queries: one for SaaS HR software companies that raised a Series A in the last 2 years, and one for SaaS HR software companies that raised a Series B in the last 2 years. Combine the results, removing any company that appears in both lists. Write company name into column A, website URL into column B, funding round name into column C, and funding amount into column D.
You want discovery plus enrichment plus ICP scoring in one shot
Use Parallel FindAll to discover 50 SaaS HR software companies that raised a Series A in the last 2 years. Write company name into column A, website URL into column B, and funding details into column C. Then enrich each company with estimated headcount (column D) and primary product category within HR software (column E). Finally, score each company as High-Fit if headcount is 51-500 and product is in HRIS or Payroll; Medium-Fit if headcount is outside that range or product is in an adjacent category; and Low-Fit otherwise. Write the score into column F.
The pattern: discovery, enrichment, and qualification in one prompt — you get a scored list, not just a populated one.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet, then ask it to use Parallel FindAll to discover companies or contacts matching your criteria and write the results directly into the sheet. You can also look at how to enrich a prospect list or return to the Parallel overview.