SEC Form D Startup Funding Leads

Get a fresh list of companies that just raised private funding — startups, VC/PE funds, and real estate syndications — the moment they file Form D with the SEC. This actor is a SEC EDGAR API wrapper: it reads directly from SEC EDGAR's public full-text search index and the structured primary_doc.xml of every filing, giving you company name, address, phone number, how much was raised, how many investors bought in, and the names of the founders/executives/directors who signed the filing — the same kind of data Crunchbase and PitchBook charge for, sourced straight from the primary filing.

Why use SEC Form D Startup Funding Leads?

Any US company raising money privately under Regulation D (the exemption almost every startup, fund, and real-estate sponsor uses instead of a public IPO) must file a Form D with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale of securities. That filing is public and structured, and it tells you, in effect, "this company just got cash and a reason to spend it." That makes Form D one of the highest-signal, lowest-competition lead sources available: unlike a press release or a Crunchbase alternative profile that lags, gets curated, or hides behind a paywall, Form D is the primary source, filed by the company's own lawyers, and it appears in EDGAR within days of the raise.

Main capabilities:

• Queries the SEC EDGAR full-text search API (efts.sec.gov) for Form D / Form D/A filings in your date range.
• Downloads the structured primary_doc.xml for each filing directly from SEC's public Archives — no scraping of rendered HTML, no third-party data broker.
• Parses each filing into one flat, consistently-shaped JSON record and applies your filters (industry, state, minimum raise size, exclude pooled funds, amendments).
• Runs on the Apify platform, so you get scheduling (daily/weekly lead feeds), API and webhook access, integrations, and monitoring out of the box.

Typical use cases:

• B2B sales prospecting — build a list of companies that just received cash and are about to spend it on software, office space, hiring, or services.
• VC / PE deal sourcing — track who else is raising in your sector or geography, and see round sizes and investor counts as they're filed.
• Recruiting — newly-funded companies hire. Get ahead of job postings by watching the raise itself.
• Real estate & fund services — filter to "Pooled Investment Fund" / "Other Real Estate" issuers to find sponsors raising new funds or property syndications.
• Crunchbase alternative — for anyone who wants "who raised money recently, with contact info," sourced directly from SEC EDGAR instead of a curated database.

What data can SEC Form D Startup Funding Leads extract?

Field	Type	Description
companyName	string	Issuer name
address, phone	object, string	Issuer's registered business address and phone number
industryGroup	string	SEC industry classification (e.g. "Other Technology", "Pooled Investment Fund")
totalOfferingAmount, totalAmountSold	number	Size of the raise, in USD
numberOfInvestors	number	Number of investors who have already put money in
dateOfFirstSale, filingDate	string	Date of first sale of securities, and date the filing hit EDGAR
relatedPersons	array	Executives, directors, promoters and general partners listed on the filing
filingUrl, xmlUrl	string	Links to the filing's index page and structured XML on SEC EDGAR

See Output below for the full field reference and a complete real example.

How to use SEC Form D Startup Funding Leads

1. Click Try for free (or Run) on this actor's page.
2. Optionally set dateFrom / dateTo to pick a filing date range (defaults to the last 7 days).
3. Optionally narrow results with industryGroups, states, minAmountSold, minTotalOffering, or excludePooledFunds.
4. Set maxItems to cap how many leads you want back.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Open the Dataset tab and export your leads as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or pull them programmatically via the API tab.

How much will it cost to use SEC Form D Startup Funding Leads?

You pay only for leads delivered — no subscription, no charge for filings that don't match your filters.

Your Apify discount tier	Price per lead	1,000 leads
Free	$0.009	$9
Bronze	$0.008	$8
Silver	$0.007	$7
Gold	$0.006	$6
Platinum / Diamond	$0.006	$6

Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly credit — enough for about 500 leads at no cost. A typical weekly pull of 100 fresh funded companies costs under $1. Compare: funding databases charge $0.06–$0.08 per record.

A run stops automatically once it has returned maxItems results, once it hits your run's maximum charge (Apify's pay-per-result cost cap), or once it has scanned max(maxItems * 20, 500) candidate filings without finding enough matches, whichever comes first — so tightening your filters or maxItems directly controls what a run can cost you.

Input

All fields are optional — running the actor with an empty input ({}) returns Form D filings from the last 7 days. See the Input tab for the full configuration schema.

Field	Type	Default	Description
dateFrom	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	7 days ago	Start of the filing date range
dateTo	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	today	End of the filing date range (inclusive)
minAmountSold	integer	0	Only companies that have already sold at least this much (USD)
minTotalOffering	integer	0	Only filings targeting at least this total offering (USD)
industryGroups	array of strings	[] (all)	SEC industry groups to keep, e.g. ["Other Technology", "Biotechnology"]
states	array of strings	[] (all)	Issuer business-address state codes to keep, e.g. ["CA", "NY"]
excludePooledFunds	boolean	true	Skip VC/PE/hedge/real-estate funds (industry group "Pooled Investment Fund") so results focus on operating companies
includeAmendments	boolean	false	Include Form D/A amendments, not just original Form D filings
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum number of leads to return

dateFrom must not be later than dateTo — the run fails immediately with an error message if it is.

Example input for "operating tech companies in California that raised at least $1M in the last 2 weeks":

{
  "dateFrom": "2026-08-30",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-13",
  "minAmountSold": 1000000,
  "industryGroups": ["Other Technology"],
  "states": ["CA"],
  "excludePooledFunds": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Output

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel. One item is produced per filing, with the same keys every time (null when the filing doesn't include that data). This is a real item from a live run of this actor (tests/smoke_input.json, filings from 2026-09-10 to 2026-09-13):

{
  "accessionNumber": "0002072307-26-000001",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-11",
  "formType": "D",
  "cik": 2072307,
  "companyName": "CleanBotix, Inc.",
  "entityType": "Corporation",
  "yearOfIncorporation": "2025",
  "stateOfIncorporation": "DELAWARE",
  "address": {
    "street1": "4540 East Paris",
    "street2": "Suite F",
    "city": "GRAND RAPIDS",
    "state": "MI",
    "zip": "49512"
  },
  "phone": "(501) 270-0636",
  "industryGroup": "Other Technology",
  "investmentFundType": null,
  "revenueRange": "Decline to Disclose",
  "totalOfferingAmount": 10000000,
  "totalAmountSold": 5999991,
  "totalRemaining": 4000009,
  "minimumInvestment": 0,
  "numberOfInvestors": 1,
  "dateOfFirstSale": "2026-08-31",
  "isEquity": true,
  "securitiesTypes": ["Equity"],
  "federalExemptions": ["06b"],
  "relatedPersons": [
    { "name": "Adam Jacques", "relationship": ["Executive Officer", "Director"], "city": "Grand Rapids", "state": "MI" },
    { "name": "Killian Lapeyre", "relationship": ["Director"], "city": "Harahan", "state": "LA" },
    { "name": "Scot Lindemann", "relationship": ["Director"], "city": "Grand Rapids", "state": "MI" },
    { "name": "Kelly Conley", "relationship": ["Executive Officer"], "city": "Grand Rapids", "state": "MI" }
  ],
  "salesCompensationRecipients": [],
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2072307/000207230726000001/0002072307-26-000001-index.htm",
  "xmlUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2072307/000207230726000001/primary_doc.xml"
}

Field reference

Field	Description
accessionNumber	SEC accession number of this filing
filingDate	Date the filing hit EDGAR
formType	D (new filing) or D/A (amendment)
cik	Issuer's SEC Central Index Key
companyName, entityType, yearOfIncorporation, stateOfIncorporation	Issuer identity
address, phone	Issuer's registered business address and phone number
industryGroup, investmentFundType	SEC industry classification; investmentFundType is set only when industryGroup is "Pooled Investment Fund"
revenueRange	Issuer's self-reported revenue bracket (or "Decline to Disclose")
totalOfferingAmount, totalAmountSold, totalRemaining	Size of the raise, in USD
minimumInvestment	Minimum check size accepted
numberOfInvestors	Number of investors who have already put money in
dateOfFirstSale	Date of the first sale of securities in this offering
isEquity, securitiesTypes	Whether equity was offered, and the full list of security types checked on the form
federalExemptions	Regulation D exemption(s) claimed (e.g. 06b = Rule 506(b))
relatedPersons	Executives, directors, promoters and general partners listed on the filing
salesCompensationRecipients	Names of any brokers/finders paid a sales commission (most filings report none; SEC returns this list empty in that case)
filingUrl	Link to the filing's index page on SEC EDGAR
xmlUrl	Direct link to the filing's structured primary_doc.xml

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is this legal? Yes. Form D filings are public records that the SEC requires issuers to file and explicitly publishes for anyone to read at sec.gov/edgar. This actor only reads that public data through SEC's own public endpoints — no login, no scraping of rendered HTML, no third-party data broker.

How fresh is the data? As fresh as EDGAR itself — usually filings appear in SEC's full-text search index within minutes to a few hours of being filed. Run this actor daily or weekly with a rolling dateFrom/dateTo to build an ongoing lead feed.

Why is investmentFundType null for most rows? It's only present when industryGroup is "Pooled Investment Fund" (i.e., a VC/PE/hedge/real-estate fund). By default (excludePooledFunds: true) those are filtered out anyway, since most B2B sales/recruiting use cases want operating companies, not funds.

Some numeric fields are missing on a filing that should have them. A small number of filings report offering amounts as "Indefinite" rather than a number (allowed by SEC for some fund types); such values are passed through as text rather than dropped, so always check the type of the numeric fields before doing math on them.

Can I get every Form D ever filed? Yes, in principle — set dateFrom far enough in the past. SEC's full-text search index covers filings back to 2001. Very large date ranges will take longer to run and scan more candidate filings before filters are applied.

Why did my run stop before reaching maxItems? A run stops when it reaches maxItems, when it hits your run's maximum charge limit, or after scanning max(maxItems * 20, 500) candidate filings without finding enough matches (strict filters can discard most filings, so this bounds how many SEC requests a single run makes). Relax your filters or widen the date range to get more results.

Why did my run fail immediately? dateFrom cannot be later than dateTo — the actor rejects that combination up front with an error message instead of running.

Legal & compliance note

All data comes from SEC EDGAR, a public government database (17 CFR 230.503 requires Form D to be filed electronically and EDGAR publishes it openly). This actor does not access any non-public data. Per SEC's fair-access policy for automated tools (see sec.gov/os/webmaster-faq#developers), every request identifies this actor with a descriptive User-Agent and the actor paces its own requests well under SEC's stated limit of ~10 requests/second.

Our actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as personal email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what is already public on SEC EDGAR — Form D filings that companies are legally required to file for public disclosure. You should be aware that filings can include the names of individual executives and directors; personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world, so you should not repurpose this data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

Limits & notes

• Only Form D and Form D/A are covered (Regulation D private offerings). Other exempt-offering forms (e.g. Form C for Reg CF) are out of scope.
• salesCompensationRecipients is best-effort: the vast majority of Form D filings report no paid brokers/finders, so this list is empty on most items.
• The actor retries transient SEC EDGAR errors automatically (SEC's servers occasionally return a temporary "unavailable" page); a filing is skipped (and logged) only after repeated retries fail, so a handful of items may be silently absent from a very large run rather than causing the whole run to fail.

Support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on this actor's page. For programmatic access, see the API tab for ready-made code snippets in your language of choice.