Startup Funding Monitor: SEC Form D Capital Raises

See who raised money before the press writes about it. When a US company raises private capital under Regulation D, it must file a Form D with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale. Those filings appear in EDGAR days before (and often without) any TechCrunch headline. This Actor scans the most recent Form D filings, throws away the noise, and returns a ranked list of real capital raises: company, amount, industry, securities type, the executives behind it, and a 0-100 funding score - each with a direct link to the SEC filing.

A real scan example: one EDGAR day surfaced CesiumAstro (space communications) with a $270M raise and EnerVenue (energy storage) with $339M at the top of the ranking, both with named executives parsed from the filing - before either appeared in mainstream funding news.

Why this is different

Most startup-funding scrapers on the market read tech-news sites, which means they only know what journalists already covered. The few that touch SEC data dump raw rows. This Actor computes the layer in between:

• The fund filter (the big one). The majority of all Form D filings are pooled investment funds - hedge funds, PE vehicles and VC funds raising their own capital. That is noise if you are looking for operating companies raising money. This Actor classifies every filing using the industry group and federal exemption codes (3C = investment company exclusion) and filters funds out by default. What remains is the actual startup/company signal.
• Structured amounts, not text guesses. Total offered, total sold and remaining are parsed from the structured XML inside the filing - including "Indefinite" offerings, handled explicitly.
• The people. Form D lists related persons - executives, directors, promoters. The Actor returns them per raise, so you see who is behind the company without opening the filing.
• Funding score 0-100. Amount (log-scaled), new filing vs amendment (D vs D/A), equity vs debt, investor momentum and freshness of the first sale, blended into one transparent score so the biggest fresh raises rank first.
• Verifiable. Every record links to the original filing on SEC.gov.

Who uses Form D data

• Investors and analysts tracking private-market activity before it hits the news.
• Sales and BD teams using fresh raises as buying signals (companies that just raised spend).
• Founders and VCs monitoring competitor fundraising.
• Fintech and data apps embedding a clean funding feed.
• Journalists and researchers covering startup and private-market trends.

What you get per raise

Company name, state and year of incorporation, form type (new D or amended D/A), filing date, industry group, securities type (equity, debt, options), amount offered / sold / remaining, number of investors already in, minimum investment, date of first sale, federal exemptions, the related persons (executives and directors with roles), a one-line catalyst summary, the funding score, and the SEC.gov URL.

{
  "type": "capital_raise",
  "issuer": "CesiumAstro Inc.",
  "form": "D",
  "is_amendment": false,
  "filing_date": "2026-06-09",
  "industry": "Other Technology",
  "is_fund": false,
  "securities": "equity",
  "amount_offered": 270514997.0,
  "amount_sold": 270514997.0,
  "investors_count": 42,
  "related_persons": [{ "name": "Shey Sabripour", "roles": ["Executive Officer", "Director"] }],
  "catalyst": "New capital raise (Form D): $270,514,997 equity - Other Technology",
  "score": 100,
  "sec_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/..."
}

How it works

The Actor reads the official SEC EDGAR daily form index (free, public, stable), fetches each Form D submission, and parses the structured edgarSubmission XML embedded in it - no HTML scraping, no third-party sites. It respects SEC fair-access guidelines with polite rate limiting. Filings from the current day appear after EDGAR's daily index is published; a scan covers the most recent published business day(s).

Input

• daysBack (1-5): how many recent business days to scan.
• minAmount: only raises at or above this USD amount (default $1M).
• includeFunds: include pooled investment funds (off by default - that is the point).
• minScore / maxFilings / maxResults: tune precision and scan size.

Use with AI agents and automation

This runs as an Apify Actor, so it drops into your stack with no scraping or glue code:

• AI agents and LLMs: call it as a live tool from LangChain, LlamaIndex or Flowise, or over MCP via the free DataSignals Lab MCP server, so an agent can answer "which companies raised more than $10M this week?" with source-linked data.
• No-code automation: wire it to Zapier or Make (new $50M+ raise -> Slack, Google Sheets or CRM).
• Webhooks and pipelines: fire a webhook on each run, or chain it into the SEC Form 4 insider scanner and 13D/G activist monitor for a full private-to-public money-flow picture.
• API and schedule: JSON output, on demand or on a daily schedule.

Pricing

Pay per scan: one flat $0.20 charge returns the full ranked list for the scanned window (up to hundreds of analyzed filings). No subscription. Compare that with raw-row competitors charging per record, or news-based products that only see what got covered.

Data source and compliance

Source: SEC EDGAR (official, public, free). Form D contains business filing data; the related persons listed are officers and directors acting in their corporate capacity, as published by the SEC. No personal contact data is collected or returned.

FAQ

Why do I not see a company I know raised money? Form D covers Regulation D exempt offerings. Some raises use other exemptions or public registration and file different forms; foreign raises without US offerings do not file at all. Why filter out funds? By filing count, most Form Ds are hedge/PE/VC vehicles raising their own capital. For a startup-funding signal they are noise; switch includeFunds on if you want them. How fresh is the data? EDGAR publishes the daily index after the filing day. New filings are typically visible the next business day - still usually well ahead of press coverage, which often never comes for non-unicorn raises. What does "Indefinite" mean for an amount? Issuers may declare an indefinite total offering. The Actor preserves that explicitly (amount_offered: null) and scores on the amount actually sold. Is this investment advice? No. This is data for research, screening and monitoring. Historical patterns do not guarantee future results.

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