Catch Your Leads While They’re Hot: DemandIQ Finds Buyers the Moment They Launch

Every meaningful product begins with a founder who has personally felt the problem they are solving, and DemandIQ is a direct product of that experience. Founded by Azaad Pandey in July 2026, DemandIQ is a lead-generation tool built for B2B tech startups. It finds newly launched companies on Product Hunt, BetaList, and the YC Launch List, and delivers verified founder emails and LinkedIn profiles straight into a spreadsheet, ready for outbound sales teams to use.

The problem DemandIQ solves is simple but expensive. Product Hunt and similar platforms intentionally hide direct founder contact details, so reaching a newly launched company means opening each listing by hand, guessing at email formats, and searching LinkedIn one founder at a time. Doing this for even 40 companies can take four hours or more, and by the time the list is finished, it is often already out of date.

Azaad ran into this problem himself. He runs several early-stage ventures at once, and while doing outbound prospecting for one of them, he found himself spending hours every week manually building lists of founders from new product launches, only for many of the emails to bounce or the list to go stale within a day or two. DemandIQ was built to remove that work entirely, so prospecting time goes into conversations instead of research.

Here is how it works. DemandIQ constantly monitors Product Hunt, BetaList, and YC Launch List for new launches, catching each one as it trends. Once a new company appears, the system verifies the founder’s business email and personal LinkedIn profile, then delivers the finished list as a secure, structured Google Sheet or CSV that plugs directly into a CRM or cold email tool. What used to take hours of manual research now takes under 10 seconds.

At the heart of DemandIQ is a simple belief. The first few days after a company launches are the best window to reach out to its founder, before competitors get there first and before their inbox fills up with pitches. Missing that window because of slow, manual research means losing a real opportunity. DemandIQ exists to make sure that window is never missed, and it treats accuracy as seriously as speed. Its email lists carry a bounce rate under 2%, so teams are not wasting outreach on dead addresses.

There is no shortage of tools that promise B2B sales leads, but most of them sell cold contacts pulled from generic databases, where the person on the other end has no particular reason to reply. DemandIQ takes a different approach. Every lead comes from a company that just launched and is actively trying to get in front of new users, investors, and partners. A founder in that position is far more receptive to a relevant outreach message than someone picked at random off a cold list, simply because they are already looking outward. That is what makes these leads hot rather than cold, and it is the main reason conversion rates on DemandIQ leads tend to run higher than on traditional outbound lists.

On top of that, DemandIQ is simple and one time pay. Instead of locking founders into a subscription for data they may only need for a short outbound push, it runs on one-time pricing tiers based on how fresh the leads need to be, from established leads a week or two old and lower cost, up to same-day, live-launch leads for teams that want to be first to reach out. Every tier includes verified emails, personal LinkedIn URLs, and secure, view-only delivery, with no recurring retainers.

The results so far reflect the strength of that approach. Early users have reported cutting customer acquisition costs by as much as 40% and saving more than 20 hours a week that used to go into manual list-building, with verified data landing in their CRM within minutes of a new launch going live. The platform’s own math is straightforward. At $0.72 per verified lead, closing a single customer more than covers the cost of 100 leads, so a team only needs to convert one user to fully break even, a pace that suits founders like Azaad, who run lean and watch every dollar of spend across their own ventures.

Looking ahead, the vision for DemandIQ is to become the tool early-stage B2B sales and growth teams check every day, the same way they check their inbox or CRM, while expanding beyond Product Hunt, BetaList, and YC Launch List to cover a wider range of startup and funding signals over time. The goal has not changed since the first version was built out of Azaad’s own frustration. Remove the manual work standing between a founder and the next customer worth reaching out to.
DemandIQ is live now at demandiq.in.