SEC Form D Scraper: New Startup Funding Rounds

Every company raising money privately in the U.S. files a Form D with the SEC. This includes startups closing seed and Series A rounds, real-estate syndications, funds and SPVs. This Actor reads EDGAR's daily index, parses each Form D, and returns clean structured rows: issuer, state, industry, offering size, amount sold, number of investors, exemptions, first-sale date and links. Filter by state, industry and round size. Incremental mode returns only filings you haven't seen.

You don't need an API key. No personal data is collected: the Actor deliberately drops the names and addresses of executives and promoters ("related persons") and the issuer phone number.

Example input

{
  "daysBack": 1,
  "issuerStates": ["CA", "NY", "TX"],
  "industryGroups": ["Other Technology", "Biotechnology", "Other Health Care"],
  "excludePooledFunds": true,
  "minOfferingAmount": 1000000,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Example output

{
  "issuerName": "ACES Diagnostics, Inc.",
  "issuerCity": "PARADISE VALLEY", "issuerState": "AZ",
  "entityType": "Corporation", "yearOfInc": "2024", "incorporatedWithinFiveYears": true,
  "industryGroup": "Other", "exemptions": ["06b"],
  "dateOfFirstSale": "2026-10-22", "securitiesTypes": ["Equity", "Other"],
  "totalOfferingAmount": 8702366.0, "totalAmountSold": 7082529.0, "totalInvestors": 30.0,
  "filingDate": "2026-10-27", "accessionNumber": "0002039838-26-000005",
  "filingIndexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2039838/000203983826000005/0002039838-26-000005-index.htm"
}

Live tests on Oct 28, 2026: 137 Form D filings on Oct 27. Over 3 days, 90 operating-company (non-fund) offerings of $1M or more. Example: Warp Sciences Inc., a $218M Other Technology offering.

Use cases

• B2B sales teams: newly funded companies have a budget. Reach out the week they raise.
• VCs, angels and fund-of-funds: track rounds in your sectors and states.
• Bankers, lenders, recruiters and service providers who sell to growing companies.
• Researchers tracking private capital formation by region and industry.

Data source and terms

The data comes from SEC EDGAR. It is public U.S. government data. The Actor follows the SEC's fair-access policy: it declares a User-Agent with contact information and stays well under 10 requests per second (about 6/s). Form D data is self-reported by issuers and is not reviewed by the SEC. Amounts can be "Indefinite", in which case they appear as null with offeringAmountIndefinite: true. Nothing here is investment advice.

Scheduling

Schedule it daily on weekday evenings, for example at 10 PM ET after EDGAR posts the day's index. Use daysBack: 1 and onlyNew: true. Missed days are caught on the next run if you raise daysBack.

How much does it cost?

Pay per event: you pay only for the events below plus Apify's $0.00005 run-start fee. Platform compute is included in the price.

• $6 per 1,000 filings ($0.006 per filing delivered).

Real examples from our test runs:

• Quick-start input (10 filings): 10 × $0.006 = about $0.06.
• Every Form D for a day: 137 filings on Oct 27, 2026 = about $0.82.
• Seed rounds over $1M, operating companies only (minOfferingAmount: 1000000, excludePooledFunds: true): 90 filings over 3 days in our test, about 30 a day = about $0.18 a day.

Use maxItems and Apify's per-run spending limit to cap spend; the Actor stops cleanly when the limit is reached.

Recipes

Seed and early rounds over $1M in the last 7 days

{
  "daysBack": 7,
  "minOfferingAmount": 1000000,
  "excludePooledFunds": true,
  "incorporatedWithinFiveYearsOnly": true,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Limits

• Form D data is self-reported by issuers and not reviewed by the SEC.
• Today's filings only appear after EDGAR posts the daily index in the evening.
• Amendments (Form D/A) are excluded unless you turn on includeAmendments.

FAQ

What is a Form D?
A short notice companies file with the SEC when they raise money privately under Regulation D. It covers startups, real-estate syndications, funds and SPVs.

When do new filings appear?
EDGAR publishes each day's index in the evening (US Eastern). Schedule a weekday run at about 10 PM ET with daysBack: 1.

Does it return founders or executives?
No. Related persons (names and addresses) and the issuer phone number are deliberately dropped.

Why is an amount empty?
Issuers can report the offering as Indefinite. Those rows have offeringAmountIndefinite: true. Use keepIndefiniteAmounts to include or drop them when you set a minimum size.

Can I skip funds and SPVs?
Yes, excludePooledFunds drops pooled investment funds.

Reliability

Measured on Apify as of Oct 29, 2026: 4 of 4 of our own test runs succeeded (100%), with a median run time of 4 seconds (longest 5 s) on small test inputs. It is a small sample from a new Actor; we will update it as runs accumulate. Local tests: 137 filings for Oct 27, 2026 parsed with 0 errors; the incremental rerun returned 0 duplicates.

Use it from AI agents (MCP)

Add this Actor as a tool in Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sec-form-d-monitor": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fedsignals/sec-form-d-monitor",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Use it from code (API)

One call runs the Actor and returns the dataset items. maxTotalChargeUsd caps what the run can charge.

Python:

import requests

items = requests.post(
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fedsignals~sec-form-d-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items",
    params={"maxTotalChargeUsd": 1},
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"},
    json={"daysBack": 3, "onlyNew": False, "maxItems": 10},
    timeout=300,
).json()
print(len(items), "items")

JavaScript (Node 18+):

const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fedsignals~sec-form-d-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?maxTotalChargeUsd=1",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: { Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN", "Content-Type": "application/json" },
    body: JSON.stringify({"daysBack": 3, "onlyNew": false, "maxItems": 10}),
  }
);
const items = await res.json();
console.log(items.length, "items");

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Feedback

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This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Nothing here is investment advice.