Startup Funding Rounds Scraper: SEC Form D, Form C & News

Track new startup funding rounds and private placements as they are filed. This Actor reads SEC Form D (every US private placement: amount raised, offering size, number of investors, executives and directors, industry, state), SEC Form C (equity crowdfunding with the company's revenue, net income, assets and debt) and funding rounds announced in startup news (TechCrunch, Crunchbase News: amount, round, valuation, lead investors). Filter by industry, state, amount, company or keyword, and schedule it to get only the new rounds every day.

Try it in one click

The input is prefilled with tech, biotech and health-care companies that raised at least $1M in the last 7 days plus rounds from the news: click Start and get 30 rounds in about 30 seconds, for about $0.17.

Real output, prefilled input, filings of 20–26 October 2026:

Filed	Company	Industry	Raised	Investors	City
2026-10-26	Warp Sciences Inc.	Other Technology	$194.6M of $218.5M	50	Portola Valley, CA
2026-10-22	Town.com, Inc.	Other Technology	$104.4M of $115.2M	13	San Francisco, CA
2026-10-22	Boltz, PBC	Other Technology	$97.4M of $120.0M	18	Boston, MA
2026-10-22	AheadComputing, Inc.	Other Technology	$63.5M of $80.0M	8	Beaverton, OR
2026-10-23	Slingshot Insurance, Inc.	Other Technology	$27.0M	13	Minneapolis, MN

The same run found the matching news: Slingshot raises $27M in seed funding (Crunchbase News, leads Rally Ventures and Skyward Group) and Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation (TechCrunch). Form D filings often appear before or without any press release.

What can this startup funding scraper do?

• SEC Form D (private placements): company, filing date, amount sold, total offering, remaining, minimum investment, number of investors and non-accredited investors, securities offered (equity, debt, SAFE, options), date of first sale, industry group, revenue range, year of incorporation, address and phone, executives / directors / promoters, sales commissions, links to the filing.
• SEC Form C (Reg CF equity crowdfunding): funding portal (Wefunder, StartEngine, Republic...), security type, price, target and maximum offering, deadline, and the company's financials for the last two fiscal years: revenue, cost of goods sold, net income, total assets, cash, debt, employees, revenue growth.
• News rounds: company, amount, round (pre-seed, seed, Series A–K, growth...), valuation, lead investors, headline, link.
• Filters: date range or "last N days", company names or keywords, industries, states, minimum amount raised, minimum offering size, only companies incorporated in the last five years, amendments on or off.
• Funds and SPVs: exclude them (default: only operating companies raising for themselves), include them, or show only funds and SPVs. Search a company name with "only" to see SPVs set up to buy its shares (pre-IPO secondary demand).
• Monitor mode: with "Only new results" every scheduled run returns just the rounds not seen before, so you pay only for new rows.

Who uses startup funding data?

• Sales and business development: companies that just raised money buy software, services and hires. Executives' names come with every Form D.
• Investors and analysts: deal flow, sector trends, round sizes by industry and state, SPV activity around hot pre-IPO names.
• Recruiters: freshly funded startups are about to hire.
• Journalists and researchers: rounds that were filed but never announced.
• Crowdfunding investors: Form C offerings with revenue and losses side by side.

How to scrape startup funding rounds

1. Pick the sources: Form D, Form C, news (or all three).
2. Set the period: "Days back" for rolling searches, or fixed dates for research.
3. Narrow it down: industries, states, minimum amount, company names or keywords.
4. Click Start. Results appear in the SEC filings and News rounds tabs of the dataset; export to CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets.
5. To monitor: Save as a new task, turn on Only new results, give the task its own Monitor name, and add a Schedule (daily works well).

Input

Field	What it does
sources	formD, formC, news
daysBack / dateFrom / dateTo	filing date range (news: publication date)
companyNames	issuer names or keywords for SEC full-text search; also filters news
fundsMode	exclude (default), include, only funds and SPVs
industries	Form D industry groups, e.g. Other Technology, Biotechnology
states	2-letter state codes from the filing, e.g. CA, NY
minAmountSold, minOfferingAmount	minimum raised / offering size in USD
onlyYoungCompanies	incorporated within the last five years
includeAmendments	also D/A and C/A amendments
newsFeeds, includeVcFunds	which feeds; include VC funds closing new funds
onlyNew, monitorName	monitor mode for scheduled runs
maxResults	rows per run (all sources together)

Output: startup funding data

One row per filing or news round. A Form D row (shortened):

{
  "source": "sec-form-d",
  "form": "D",
  "filedAt": "2026-10-26",
  "companyName": "Warp Sciences Inc.",
  "industryGroup": "Other Technology",
  "totalAmountSold": 194609879,
  "totalOfferingAmount": 218459997,
  "investorCount": 50,
  "securitiesOffered": ["Equity"],
  "city": "PORTOLA VALLEY",
  "state": "CA",
  "yearOfIncorporation": 2026,
  "relatedPersons": [{"name": "…", "relationships": ["Executive Officer", "Director"], "city": "…", "state": "CA"}],
  "isInvestmentVehicle": false,
  "filingIndexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2160711/000216071126000001/0002160711-26-000001-index.htm"
}

A news row:

{
  "source": "news",
  "companyName": "Legora",
  "amountUsd": 550000000,
  "roundType": "Series E",
  "valuationUsd": 8800000000,
  "leadInvestors": [],
  "title": "Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-21T18:51:56+00:00",
  "feed": "techcrunch"
}

Form C rows add fundingPortal, securityType, targetOfferingAmount, maximumOfferingAmount, deadline, revenueMostRecentYear, revenuePriorYear, netIncomeMostRecentYear, totalAssetsMostRecentYear, cashMostRecentYear, employees, revenueGrowthPct and more.

Ready-made setups

Copy the JSON into the Input → JSON tab, click Save as a new task, then add a Schedule and an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, email, webhook) on the task's Integrations tab.

1. Daily lead list of funded tech startups (sales, recruiting). Every morning, new tech rounds of $2M+ in the US, only rows you have not seen. Schedule: daily. About $0.05–0.20 per run.

{
  "sources": ["formD", "news"],
  "daysBack": 3,
  "industries": ["Other Technology", "Computers", "Telecommunications", "Business Services"],
  "minAmountSold": 2000000,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "monitorName": "tech-rounds-2m",
  "maxResults": 200
}

2. Biotech and health-care rounds in Massachusetts and California (investors, BD). Schedule: weekly. About $0.10–0.30 per run.

{
  "sources": ["formD"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "industries": ["Biotechnology", "Pharmaceuticals", "Other Health Care", "Hospitals and Physicians"],
  "states": ["MA", "CA"],
  "onlyNew": true,
  "monitorName": "biotech-ma-ca",
  "maxResults": 300
}

3. Pre-IPO SPV watch (secondary-market investors). SPVs and funds formed to buy shares of the names you follow. Schedule: weekly.

{
  "sources": ["formD"],
  "daysBack": 30,
  "companyNames": ["Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Anduril", "Databricks", "Stripe"],
  "fundsMode": "only",
  "includeAmendments": true,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "monitorName": "pre-ipo-spvs"
}

4. Equity crowdfunding with financials (crowdfunding investors). New Form C offerings with revenue and net income. Schedule: weekly.

{
  "sources": ["formC"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "minOfferingAmount": 250000,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "monitorName": "reg-cf",
  "maxResults": 300
}

Use it from AI agents (MCP, Claude, ChatGPT, n8n)

MCP server. Add this URL to Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any other MCP client and sign in to Apify when asked:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=d_nepoch/startup-funding-rounds-scraper

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "startup-funding-rounds-scraper": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=d_nepoch/startup-funding-rounds-scraper" }
  }
}

Then just ask, for example: "Which AI or software startups in California raised more than $10M this week, and who are their executives?" or "Find SPVs formed to buy Anthropic shares in the last 90 days." The agent fills sources, dates, industries, states and amounts itself.

One HTTP call (waits for the run and returns the results as JSON; for runs longer than 5 minutes use the async runs endpoint):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/d_nepoch~startup-funding-rounds-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sources": ["formD"], "daysBack": 7, "industries": ["Other Technology"], "minAmountSold": 5000000, "maxResults": 50}'

Python (pip install apify-client, version 3):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("d_nepoch/startup-funding-rounds-scraper").call(
    run_input={"sources": ["formD", "news"], "daysBack": 7, "minAmountSold": 5_000_000, "maxResults": 100},
    max_total_charge_usd=1,  # hard spending cap for this run
)
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item["companyName"], item.get("totalAmountSold") or item.get("amountUsd"))

No-code and agent frameworks: the Apify integrations for n8n, Make, Zapier, LangChain, LlamaIndex and CrewAI call this Actor by the name d_nepoch/startup-funding-rounds-scraper with the same JSON input.

Tips for agents: one row = one SEC filing (source sec-form-d / sec-form-c) or one news round (source news); money fields are plain USD numbers (totalAmountSold, totalOfferingAmount, amountUsd, valuationUsd); use daysBack for relative dates and maxResults plus maxTotalChargeUsd to cap spend.

How much does it cost to scrape startup funding data?

Pay per result, no subscription: $5 per 1,000 SEC filings (Form D or Form C, $0.005 each) and $10 per 1,000 news rounds ($0.01 each), plus $0.00005 per run start. Apify Starter, Scale and Business plans get 10%, 20% and 30% off the per-result prices. Filings that do not match your filters are free. A daily monitor of tech rounds typically costs a few cents a day; set Max total charge in run options for a hard cap.

FAQ

What is SEC Form D? The notice US companies file within 15 days after the first sale in a private placement (Regulation D). Venture rounds, angel and seed rounds, SAFEs and convertible notes are usually filed on Form D, so it shows rounds before or without a press release.

Why is the valuation missing for Form D rows? Form D does not ask for a valuation. Use the news rows (valuation when reported) or combine with your own data.

Is "raised" the round size? totalAmountSold is what the company has sold so far in this offering; totalOfferingAmount is the planned total. Amendments (D/A) update these numbers as the round fills.

How do I avoid funds and real-estate deals? Keep fundsMode on "exclude" (pooled funds, 3(c) vehicles and vehicle-style names such as "… Fund LP", "… Investor LLC" are dropped) and pick industries like Other Technology or Biotechnology.

How do scheduled runs avoid duplicates? Turn on Only new results. The Actor stores what it already returned in a named key-value store in your account (one per Monitor name).

Is this data legal to use? SEC filings are public records published by the US government. News rows contain only headline facts and a link to the article.

Limits

• Form D and Form C cover US offerings filed with the SEC (foreign issuers that sell to US investors appear too). Non-US rounds appear only through news.
• News feeds keep only their latest posts, so news history is short: schedule daily runs for full coverage.
• Headlines are parsed with rules; unusual wording may miss the round type or lead investors.
• SEC full-text search returns at most 10,000 filings per query window; the Actor splits long periods by week.

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