Funded Startup Tracker — TechCrunch + SEC EDGAR Funding Data

Recent funding events from TechCrunch and SEC EDGAR Form D filings, parsed into structured records with amount, round, investors, founders, and hiring signals. Pay per result. Built for SDR teams selling into newly funded startups.

Why this exists

Crunchbase Pro is $99/mo per seat. A 5-person SDR team is $495/mo before they pull a single record. Tracxn is enterprise-only. Growth List sells one-time CSV dumps. TechCrunch and SEC EDGAR are public, but nobody ties the funding announcement to a parsed amount, round letter, lead investor, careers page, and EDGAR Form D in one call.

This actor does that. One request returns a structured record. You pay $0.04 for a feed event, $0.10 for a fully-enriched company.

How It Works

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                    │      Funded Startup Tracker API             │
                    └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                    ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                    │  Source 1: TECHCRUNCH                       │
                    │  RSS feeds: /category/venture/feed/         │
                    │             /category/fundraising/feed/     │
                    │  Article body parsing for amount + round    │
                    │  + investors via funding-NLP regex          │
                    └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                    ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                    │  Source 2: SEC EDGAR                        │
                    │  efts.sec.gov full-text search Form D       │
                    │  US private placement disclosures           │
                    │  Cross-referenced by company name + date    │
                    └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                    ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                    │  Step 3: PARSING + DEDUPE                   │
                    │  Headline regex: "X raises $Y Series Z"     │
                    │  HTML entity decoder for numeric refs       │
                    │  Investor list parsing: "led by X"          │
                    └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                    ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                    │  Step 4: ENRICHMENT (+ $0.06 over base)     │
                    │  Cross-ref EDGAR Form D filings             │
                    │  Careers-page detection                     │
                    │  Founder name extraction                    │
                    │  Industry / vertical tagging                │
                    └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                    ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                    │  Output: structured JSON per startup        │
                    └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Endpoints

Method	Path	Purpose	Charge
GET	/	Service info	none
GET	/health	Health probe	none
GET	/recent?days=30&min_amount=1000000&stage=seriesA&limit=50	Recent funding events from TC venture + fundraising RSS	$0.04 / event
GET	/enrich?company=stripe.com&days=365	Single-company enrichment (funding history + EDGAR cross-ref + careers signals)	$0.10 / record
POST	/enrich/bulk	Up to 25 companies in one call	$0.10 / record

Quick start

TOKEN="<your-apify-token>"
BASE="https://george-the-developer--funded-startup-tracker.apify.actor"

# Last 30 days of Series A rounds
curl "$BASE/recent?days=30&stage=seriesA&limit=20" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

# Enrich one specific company
curl "$BASE/enrich?company=stripe.com&days=365" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

Sample response (enriched)

{
  "company": "Corgi",
  "domain": "corgi.com",
  "funding": {
    "latest_round": "Series A",
    "amount_usd": 160000000,
    "announced_at": "2026-04-22",
    "lead_investor": "TCV",
    "all_investors": ["TCV", "Bessemer Venture Partners"],
    "total_raised_usd": 200000000,
    "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/corgi-raises-160m/",
    "source_type": "techcrunch"
  },
  "company_data": {
    "industry": "Insurance technology",
    "headcount_est": "51-200",
    "hq_location": "New York, NY",
    "founded_year": 2023,
    "website": "https://corgi.com"
  },
  "founders": [
    { "name": "Cole Riccardi", "title": "CEO", "linkedin_url": null }
  ],
  "hiring_signals": {
    "open_roles_count": 7,
    "careers_page_url": "https://corgi.com/careers"
  },
  "edgar_filings": [
    { "form": "D", "filed_at": "2026-04-19", "offering_amount_usd": 160000000 }
  ]
}

Pricing

Event	Price	What it covers
funding-event	$0.04	One funded startup record from TechCrunch or EDGAR with parsed amount, round, investors
startup-enriched	$0.10	Funded company with founders, hiring signals, and EDGAR cross-references

Apify free tier covers around $5/mo out of the gate. No subscription, no minimum, no seat license.

Use cases

1. B2B SaaS SDRs at tools targeting funded startups (Brex, Mercury, Ramp, Vanta, Carta, Modern Treasury).
2. VC scouts mapping recent deals by stage and vertical.
3. Recruiting agencies hunting talent at hot startups post-funding.
4. M&A advisors building lists of recently capitalized targets.
5. BD at infra companies (AWS Activate, GCP Startup, Stripe Atlas) qualifying programs by funding signal.

Data sources (v1)

• TechCrunch — RSS feeds (open, no auth, no Cloudflare on RSS), article body parsed via funding-NLP regex
• SEC EDGAR — efts.sec.gov full-text search for Form D filings (US private placement disclosures, fully public)
• Wellfound — deferred to v2 (Datadome anti-bot, requires Go TLS bypass)

Honest tradeoffs

• Cold-start latency on first call after idle (10-30s while Apify wakes the Standby actor)
• TechCrunch funding-NLP regex catches most explicit announcements; press-release wires (PRN, Business Wire) deferred to v2
• EDGAR Form D filings are US-only and lag the announcement by 15 days post-closing
• Founder LinkedIn URL extraction is best-effort; v2 adds Wellfound team-page enrichment

Docs and examples

Full curl, Node, and Python examples at github.com/the-ai-entrepreneur-ai-hub/funded-startup-tracker-docs.

More from this developer

Other lead-gen actors built for the same value-driven, pay-per-result model:

• ATS Hire-Trigger Intent Scraper — Greenhouse + Lever + Ashby + SmartRecruiters jobs in one API. Pairs with this actor: see what funded startups are hiring next, intent-enriched.
• Shopify DTC Brand Discovery — Shopify stores by niche with tech-stack detection. $0.02 / $0.05 per store. For DTC-vertical funded brands.
• Email Validator API — SMTP probe, MX record check, disposable detection. $0.002 per email. Pairs for verifying founder emails attached to funding events.
• Company Enrichment API — Domain to company intel (employee count, industry, tech stack). $0.01 per company. Pairs with funding data for full target profiling.

Full portfolio: apify.com/george.the.developer.

License

MIT.