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Watch our Webinar recording from June 2025!
Recording:
The above is the recording from our webinar on the 5th June 2025, which walks through how to upload and then leverage your network.
Search Templates:
Companies
People
Building these searches yourself
If you'd like to build your own searches, then the criteria you need to use is as follows:
Company Search:
Click Add company criteria: People > Has a key person who > is currently active
Then you can click Add company position criteria
Then choose the following criteria: Position belongs to a person who > In My Network
Select "My 2nd Degree"
People Search:
Click Add person criteria
Choose the criteria: In My Network
Select "My 2nd Degree"
What end goal are we aiming towards?
We're trying to land on companies or people, for which you have a genuine, warm introduction to - here's an example:
Instead of contacting Amphista Therapeutics blindly, I can instead ask to speak to my connection Alastair, who can introduce me to Louise - the Chief Scientific Officer at Amphista.
Alastair and Louise know each other through Mogrify, where Alastair is Investment Director, and where Louise is also the Chief Scientific Officer, a director and a shareholder.
It's worth saying that we won't find a perfect route to introduction every time - sometimes you'll find a link between two shareholders, which may be a weaker connection.
However, it's worth digging to find the warmer opportunities that are easier to take - these are easier to convert and allow you to avoid reaching out cold.
How to Upload your Network:
Have a look at this article we've written, which walks you through step by step!
How to Upload Your Network📚
The first step in the process is to ensure that you have uploaded your network to the MyNetwork feature (found under MyBeauhurst in the top left of your screen) of the platform. The above article tells you all you need to know on this!
Tips and Tricks:
Short and Sweet produces better success!🔗
We recommend you keep the list of people you upload into your network concise - if you can't pick up the phone or send them a message asking for an introduction, then don't bother!
Aim for between 5-20 people to start.
Excluding Crowdfunders ❌
It's common to see a "warm link" to someone through a common shareholding in a crowdfunding source (Freetrade, Crowdcube, Crowdfunder, Seedrs, SyndicateRoom...)
To avoid these, you can layer on the following criteria:
Add Person Criteria > Has a shareholding where > Shareholding is in a company where > Name: Freetrade, Crowdcube, Crowdfunder, Seedrs, SyndicateRoom...
Uploading Senior Colleagues' Network💼
If you're particularly junior, or are blessed to have plenty of senior colleagues with well-built networks, you can upload their connections to your account, and search over them instead.
In this case, make sure that your colleague has a genuine connection with the people you add, and also the capacity to reach out to them as well!
The danger here is that you convolute the quality of connections, or overly-inflate the number such that the platform will tell you that you have connections to everyone. To avoid this, make sure to keep the number of people uploaded small, and ensure that your colleague can pick up the phone to them easily.
👋Get in touch with the team
For any more information on how to run similar searches yourself or if you have any questions, please speak to your Support team - their contact details will be found in the Help tab on your account.