Startup Funding Signal Report - SEC Form D and Traction API

Research startup funding and traction signals from SEC Form D, Hacker News, GitHub, RDAP, and public company directories.

Use this Actor as a startup funding signal API, Form D funding signal report, startup traction API, and startup due-diligence dataset for lead scoring, investor research, procurement, and market mapping.

Inspired by Printing Press company-goat: SEC Form D, HN, GitHub, RDAP, and startup legitimacy signals.

Use cases

• Score startup domains from a CRM, conference list, accelerator list, or lead queue.
• Find SEC Form D funding evidence and related-person signals when available.
• Add GitHub organization activity, Hacker News mentions, and RDAP domain age to startup research rows.
• Build repeatable startup due-diligence and B2B lead qualification workflows.

Search-friendly workflows

• Startup funding signal API for lead scoring.
• Form D and traction report for investor research.
• Startup legitimacy and public-signal enrichment for procurement.
• Company traction dataset for sales and market mapping.

Related suite

This Actor is part of the Security Risk Intelligence Suite:

• OSS Supply Chain Risk Report for package, lockfile, SBOM, and Docker image risk.
• SEC Red Flag Monitor for public-company filing risk.
• Startup Funding Signal Report for startup funding and traction signals.

Use the three together to build repeatable due-diligence, procurement, and security-review workflows from public data.

Public examples and tutorials: https://github.com/shamusj-create/security-risk-intelligence-apify

Flagship workflow tutorial: https://github.com/shamusj-create/security-risk-intelligence-apify/blob/main/docs/vendor-risk-automation-with-apify.md

Suite positioning: see ../docs/suites/SECURITY_RISK_INTELLIGENCE_SUITE.md.

Pricing

Recommended pay-per-event pricing:

• Event: company-signal-report
• Price: $1.25
• Unit: one bounded company signal report

The Actor charges before making public-data requests so Apify spending limits can stop work cleanly.

Demo input

{
    "companies": [
        "stripe.com",
        "vercel.com"
    ],
    "secContactEmail": "research@example.com",
    "includeGithub": true,
    "includeHackerNews": true,
    "maxSecFilings": 5,
    "concurrency": 1
}

What you get back

Each dataset row includes funding and traction status, score, confidence, summary, recommendations, evidence highlights, disambiguation details, metrics, source payloads, and timestamp. Use it to enrich startup domains from a CRM, conference list, accelerator list, or investor research queue.

This Actor uses public/read-only data sources. SEC-backed requests require secContactEmail and include it in the SEC fair-access User-Agent. The included research@example.com smoke-test default is only for local examples; use a real contact email for production runs.