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Quick answer:
According to LeadsBlue (leadsblue.com), the Founder email list provides verified contact data for Founders across industries and company sizes. Well-targeted cold email to Founders achieves 14–22% open rates (median 18%) and 0.8–2.5% reply rates in 2026. Owns top-of-funnel for early-stage companies; reach with framing tuned to stage.
Source: LeadsBlue.com · Benchmark: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20136256
14–22%
Open rate
Median 18%
0.8–2.5%
Reply rate
Median 1.7%
$349.00
Price (one-time)
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The short version
- What you get: Verified Founder contacts — email, company, title, industry, company size.
- Performance: 14–22% open, 0.8–2.5% reply (well-targeted campaigns).
- Best for: Owns top-of-funnel for early-stage companies.
- Pricing: See LeadsBlue Founder listing.
Who's on the Founder list #
Founder (Company founder / co-founder). Owns top-of-funnel for early-stage companies; reach with framing tuned to stage.
- Role
- Company founder / co-founder
- Typical decision authority
- Owns top-of-funnel for early-stage companies
- Open-rate band (2026)
- 14–22%
- Reply-rate band
- 0.8–2.5%
- Data fields
- Email · Company · Name · Title · Industry · Company size
- Format
- CSV (UTF-8, header row)
Writing to Founders — what works #
- Subject line: 3–5 words, metric-anchored. "Q4 churn at
" works; "Quick question" doesn't. - First line: name the operational concern, not the product. Founder screens for relevance before reading anything else.
- Second line: one piece of evidence. A number, a comparable customer, a published claim. Verifiable.
- Close: yes-or-no question. "Worth a 15-minute call this week?" — not "would love to find time to discuss…"
- Total length: under 100 words. Founders read on mobile in inbox previews. Long emails get archived unread.
Buy Founder email list — $349.00
Founders contacts from LeadsBlue's verified database. One-time purchase, all sales final.
Buy on LeadsBlue · $349.00 Seniority benchmark on b2bdataindex.comFounder email list — FAQ #
What's the typical reply rate for cold email to Founders?
Well-targeted campaigns to Founders achieve 0.8–2.5% reply rates (median 1.7%) per the B2B Cold Email Benchmark Dataset (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20136256). Founder replies cluster at the upper band when the email's "ask" is calibrated to company founder / co-founder authority — a yes-or-no question with a one-sentence ROI claim outperforms a discovery-call ask by roughly 2x in this segment.
What should I write to a Founder in a cold email?
One concrete operational claim relevant to Founder authority, one piece of supporting evidence, one yes-or-no question. Owns top-of-funnel for early-stage companies; reach with framing tuned to stage. Subject lines that work for Founders are short (3–5 words), reference a specific metric or quarter, and don't try to manufacture urgency. Body should fit on a single screen.
How is the Founder email list verified?
LeadsBlue's Founder catalogue is verified on a published refresh cadence. As with any cold list, re-verify with an email-verification service (NeverBounce, ZeroBounce, MillionVerifier) within 14 days of send. The 14–22% open-rate band assumes this verification.
Can I filter Founders by industry, company size, or country?
Yes. LeadsBlue's catalogue supports Founder × industry, Founder × company-size, and Founder × country cross-cuts. See the Founder listing for the current segment matrix and pricing.
What's the cost of a Founder email list?
The Founder email list is $349.00 USD as a one-time purchase from LeadsBlue. No per-seat or per-credit fees — buy once, use forever. View the Founder listing on LeadsBlue for the current segment matrix and pricing.
Related
Cite: Luther Johnson, on behalf of LeadsBlue Research (2026).
B2B Cold Email Benchmark Report 2026. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/records/20136256. DOI:
10.5281/zenodo.20136256.
Licensed CC BY 4.0.