Recently funded UK companies (SH01)

What is UK Funding Rounds?

UK Funding Rounds gives you UK share issues, read from the share allotment forms that companies file at Companies House: who issued shares, how many, at what price, how much was raised and when.

When a UK company limited by shares issues new shares, it must file a form called an SH01 with Companies House within one month. We read those forms ourselves, so the data can include share issues that were never announced to the press. Typed forms are read by code. Scanned paper forms are flagged, not read, until we add text recognition.

Search by company, date, amount or kind of issue. Each row links to the original filing and says how it was read.

Who it is for

• Investors and funds tracking UK private companies
• Lenders, advisers and corporate finance teams
• Sales teams looking for companies that have just raised money
• Journalists and researchers

What data does it return?

One row per share issue:

Field	What it is
transaction_id	Companies House's id for the filing
company_number	Companies House number
company_name	Company name on the filing
round_date	Last allotment date on the filing
kind	premium_issue (shares sold above their nominal value, usually an investment round, sometimes option exercises), par_issue (at nominal value, usually founders or owners), non_cash (issued for something other than cash, such as a share exchange), mixed, or unclear (the form contradicts itself, so no price is given)
currency	Currency of the shares
shares_issued	Number of shares allotted
price_per_share	Amount paid per share, including premium
amount	Shares allotted times amount paid per share. For non_cash rows it is the value given for the shares, not cash raised
total_shares_after	Total shares in issue, from the form's statement of capital. When a company files several late forms together, this is the total when the form was filed
implied_valuation	Price per share times total shares after, for premium issues only (empty for the other kinds); a rough figure that assumes every class is worth the same
classes	Share classes issued
notes	Anything unusual about the filing
filed_on	Date Companies House received the form
source_url	The original filing
fetched_at	When the filing was fetched
read_method	How the form was read: code, text_recognition, claude or manual

How to use it

1. Add filters if you want them: company (a Companies House number, or part of a company name), from and to (round dates, YYYY-MM-DD), min_amount and kind. Leave them all empty to get the most recent share issues; put a company number in company to get the issues we hold for that company.
2. Choose max_rows, the most rows you want (default 20). Rows come newest round date first.
3. Run it. The rows are the run's results. You can download them as JSON, CSV, XML, Excel, an HTML table, RSS or JSONL, or read them with Apify's API.

To see only likely investment rounds, set kind to premium_issue and choose a min_amount.

How much does it cost?

USD 0.05 for each row a run returns (one row is one share issue), plus Apify's start charge of USD 0.00005 a run. Apify charges both to your Apify account.

Input example

{
  "kind": "premium_issue",
  "min_amount": 1000000,
  "max_rows": 20
}

Output example

{
  "transaction_id": "MzQ5Njg0MTU3NWFkaXF6a2N4",
  "company_number": "15329764",
  "company_name": "Mar Hall Hospitality Limited",
  "round_date": "2025-12-30",
  "filed_on": "2025-12-30",
  "kind": "par_issue",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "shares_issued": "10200000",
  "price_per_share": "1",
  "amount": "10200000.00",
  "total_shares_after": "24200100",
  "implied_valuation": null,
  "classes": [
    "A ORDINARY"
  ],
  "notes": null,
  "source_url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15329764/filing-history/MzQ5Njg0MTU3NWFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-26T16:55:40+00:00",
  "read_method": "code"
}

Where does the data come from?

Companies House, the UK's register of companies. The form is the SH01, "return of allotment of shares". The law behind it is the Companies Act 2006, section 555: a company must file a return of allotment within one month of allotting shares.

What Companies House says about using the information is quoted in full under FAQ.

What is covered

In a random sample of 400 active private companies, 40 share allotment forms were filed from January 2023: 37 were typed and read by code, and 3 were scanned paper that needs text recognition. Scanned forms are flagged until text recognition is added. Public companies and companies incorporated since 1 September 2025 were outside that sample.

New filings are picked up every morning at about 05:15 UTC. The data starts on 18 October 2026, when our update first read Companies House's filings: filings received before then are not included.

Limits

• The SH01 form does not name who bought the shares, so there are no investor names.
• Most share issues are not investment rounds. Every row says what kind of issue it is, so you can filter.
• implied_valuation is rough: it assumes every class of share is worth the same.
• A form can reach Companies House weeks after the shares were issued.

FAQ

Are there rules on using this data? Companies House says: "We impose no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used, and we're not responsible for your use of the company data. You are responsible for complying with any applicable data protection, copyright and other legislation and regulations." (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/companies-house-data-products, read 23 September 2026)

Does it include investors? No. The form does not name them.

Can AI assistants use it? Apify's MCP server lets AI agents find and run Store Actors: it "enables AI agents to discover and run Actors from Apify Store" (Apify's documentation).

How fresh is it? Every morning at about 05:15 UTC we read the forms Companies House received since the day before. When our daily update has not finished for more than 48 hours, the run's status message says so and gives the time the data runs up to; if our daily update ever missed a period of filings, every run's status message names that period. The data starts on 18 October 2026.

Does it include every share issue? No. It includes the forms we have read: typed forms are read by code, and scanned paper forms are flagged until text recognition is added (3 of the 40 forms in our test sample were scanned). Public companies were outside that sample, so how well they are covered is not known yet.

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