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What is Hunter?

What is Hunter and how can it be useful to you

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About Hunter

Hunter is an all-in-one cold outreach platform designed to simplify prospecting by helping professionals discover new companies, find and verify email addresses, enrich leads, and automate personalized email campaigns, all while fully complying with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.

Originally founded in 2015 as an email finder tool using publicly available web data, Hunter has evolved significantly, becoming a comprehensive outreach solution used worldwide.


Why choose Hunter?

Hunter makes your cold outreach workflow efficient and transparent, enabling you to:

  • Identify ideal target companies

  • Quickly find and verify professional email addresses

  • Enrich and manage your prospecting data

  • Integrate your existing workflows

  • Automate personalized email campaigns

  • Ensure compliance and transparency regarding data usage


Who uses Hunter?

Hunter serves over 5M professionals worldwide, adapting effortlessly to various outreach needs:

  • Sales Representatives: Easily discover new companies and verified email addresses to grow sales pipelines.

  • Marketing Teams: Enrich and verify lead lists by integrating Hunter with CRMs for cleaner, actionable data.

  • Freelancers: Launch targeted, personalized email campaigns to connect with potential clients.

  • Data Resellers: Integrate Hunter’s robust data directly into applications through our comprehensive API.

Explore how businesses successfully use Hunter in our Customer Stories or read reviews on G2, Capterra, and Trustpilot.


What features does Hunter offer?

Hunter provides specialized tools for each step in your outreach workflow:

🔎 Discover new companies

Use Hunter Discover to identify companies that match your ideal customer profile using filters such as location, industry, keywords, technologies, and more.

You can view detailed company descriptions, find similar companies, save and export your selections, and find email addresses associated with them.

✉️ Find professional emails

Hunter provides two main tools for finding emails — both available for individual or bulk use:

  • Domain Search: Find email addresses by entering a company name or domain.

  • Email Finder: Get specific contact emails using the individual's full name and company domain.

Verify emails

Email Verifier allows you to check the validity of email addresses, either one at a time or in bulk. It ensures that your emails are deliverable and protects your sender's reputation by reducing bounces.

📂 Manage and enrich leads

Hunter Leads is the core of our platform, a lightweight CRM where you can manage all your imported data or leads found through Hunter. You can:

  • Organize and segment lead data (both people and companies).

  • Enrich leads automatically at no extra cost.

  • Keep your leads verified and valid.

  • Centralize all your outreach data in one intuitive place.

📝 Automate email campaigns

With Hunter Campaigns, you can easily create and launch personalized email campaigns with automated follow-ups (up to 5 sequences). Track campaign performance metrics to optimize future outreach.

🚥 Get notified about company updates with Signals

Hunter Signals allows you to receive updates for specific companies based on your chosen Signal and filter criteria. You can create three different types of Signals:

  • Fundings and acquisitions: to identify fast-growing companies.

  • Job openings: to get updates about job openings at certain companies.

  • Company: to follow companies and get updates on any changes.

🔗 Integrations

Hunter seamlessly integrates with popular CRMs, email marketing tools, and other apps to streamline your workflow and enhance productivity. Explore integrations here.

📡 Powerful API

Hunter provides a robust API, enabling easy integration of its data and functionalities into your own applications and workflows at scale.

🛠️ Extensions and Add-ons

Boost your productivity with Hunter's browser extensions and add-ons, available for:

📺 Here’s a quick video demo that walks you through the whole platform!


How to automate your cold outreach workflow with Hunter

Hunter simplifies cold outreach in five straightforward steps:

  1. Start with Discover: identify your target companies:
    Start with Hunter Discover to find companies that match your ideal customer profile (ICP). Save and organize your lists efficiently.

  2. Manage your companies: segment and filter your lists

    Segment your saved companies for targeted outreach by creating your company list. Apply additional filters if needed to refine your results, ensuring you’re targeting the most relevant leads.

  3. Find and Verify email addresses:

    Directly find and verify emails for your leads from the Leads section.

  4. Launch personalized email campaigns:

    Add your verified leads to a campaign and start crafting your message. With Hunter Campaigns, you can personalize your emails in bulk using custom attributes for each recipient and create automated follow-ups.

  5. Analyze and optimize your cold email results

    Review opens, clicks, and reply rates in the Reporting section to continuously improve your outreach strategy. You’ll be able to monitor opens, clicks, and replies to understand how your emails are performing and optimize future outreach efforts.


Is Hunter available for free and suitable for teams?

Yes. Hunter offers a free plan suitable for individuals and teams of any size. Every plan can be shared at no extra cost making Hunter ideal for collaborative outreach and team management.


Is Hunter legal, GDPR, and CCPA compliant?

Yes. Hunter prioritizes privacy compliance by:

  • Sourcing data exclusively from publicly available web pages.

  • Providing transparency by showing the exact source for each email found in the Domain Search. More info here.

  • Allowing professionals to claim removal of their email addresses easily here.

We never access or process private or non-consensual data. Our commitment to transparency in data collection and usage reinforces our compliance not only with GDPR, but also with global regulations surrounding cold emailing and data privacy.

For a detailed explanation of our compliance approach, see our dedicated GDPR, CCPA and DPA pages.

If you’d like to learn more, we’ve prepared a comprehensive breakdown of how cold emailing and data usage align with legal standards:

If you’re still unsure about your compliance, we recommend consulting with your legal team or advisor.


Do you have any case studies?

Yes, feel free to have a look at our Customer stories here and discover how outreach experts use Hunter to achieve various business goals.

👉 You can also check out our amazing customer reviews here:


Webinars

Join our live and recorded webinars to learn best practices, discover new strategies, and master cold outreach with Hunter.


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