Funding Stage Company Finder — Startups by Stage & Industry

If you sell to startups, the list you want is "every seed-stage fintech in California" or "Series A biotech in Texas and the UK" — not a news feed of yesterday's rounds. Funding Stage Company Finder answers that query: pick the funding stages, type industry keywords and locations, and get one company per row with its stage (and how sure we are), the last round type, amount and date, investors, HQ, founded year, team size, description, website and executives — merged from three free public sources: SEC Form D filings, the Y Combinator directory and funding press. No login, no API key, no Crunchbase seat.

• Sales teams selling to startups — SaaS, fintech, recruiting, payroll, security: the right stage is the right buyer.
• VC and corporate-development ops — sourcing lists by stage × sector × geography, with the filing or article as evidence.
• Recruiters and agencies — companies that just raised are the ones hiring and buying.
• Analysts and founders — market maps of a niche at a given stage, refreshed on a schedule.

What does Funding Stage Company Finder do?

It is a startup database query built from public sources, not a scrape of one site:

1. SEC Form D (EDGAR full-text search + each filing) — every US private raise: issuer, address, phone, year of incorporation, industry group, amount sold, offering size, first-sale date, the securities offered (often "Series A Preferred Stock") and the executives who signed. Investment funds, SPVs and real-estate vehicles are filtered out; only operating companies remain.
2. Y Combinator directory — every YC company with website, one-liner, description, tags, locations, batch, team size and YC's own stage bucket.
3. Funding press (news search) — "raises $12M Series A" headlines per stage × industry, parsed into company, round, amount, currency, date and investors.

Companies found by more than one source are merged into one row (by domain, else by name). Every row states where its stage comes from: stageConfidence is high when a source names the round, medium for a strong structural signal (YC "Early", a SAFE/convertible note), low when it is inferred from the amount alone — and stageBasis spells it out. With Look up the last named round on, companies whose stage is only inferred get one news lookup that can upgrade them to a named round.

Why use this startup finder?

• A query, not a feed. Stage × industry × location → list. Companion to recently-funded-companies (what raised this week).
• Honest stages. A stage is a labelled inference, never a bare claim; amounts and dates are only what a source stated.
• Merged, deduplicated rows. A YC company that also filed a Form D and made the news is one row with three source links.
• Evidence on every row. The SEC filing folder, the YC profile and the article URL.
• Executives included. Form D lists the officers and directors who signed — names and roles are on the row.
• Fair pricing. One small price per delivered company; filtered-out companies, duplicates and empty runs are free.
• Runs anywhere. Schedule weekly refreshes, call it from the API, Zapier / Make / n8n, or from an AI agent through MCP.

What data does it extract?

Field	Description
company, domain, website, websiteConfidence	Company name; website as given by the source (source) or resolved by a strict name-matching web search (resolved), else null
stage	pre-seed, seed, series-a, series-b, series-c-plus, unknown
stageConfidence, stageBasis	high (round named by the source) / medium (YC "Early", SAFE or convertible note) / low (amount band only), and the reason in words
lastRoundType, lastRoundAmountUsd, lastRoundDate	The round as written ("Series A Preferred", "Seed"), the amount in USD (Form D amount sold, or the headline amount converted at an approximate rate), the first-sale or article date
offeringAmountUsd	Form D total offering size (null when "Indefinite")
totalRaisedUsd, investors	Only when a source states them (investors: from headlines; "Y Combinator" for YC companies)
industries	YC industries + tags, the Form D industry group, or the keywords the headline matched
hq, city, state, country, foundedYear	From the filing address or the YC location; foundedYear from Form D only
employeeBand, teamSize	From the YC directory
description, linkedin, twitter, emails, phone, contactStatus	Description (YC); phone (Form D); emails/socials only with Extract emails & socials on
people, peopleNames	Executives and directors from the Form D signature block, with roles
ycBatch, ycStatus, secCik, secFilingUrl, secIndustryGroup, secRevenueRange, pressUrl, pressTitle	Source facts and links
sellTo	Who typically sells to a company at this stage (derived hint, not a fact about the company)
sources, sourceUrls, key, scrapedAt	Provenance

How to find startups by funding stage

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free.
2. Pick Funding stages (e.g. Seed, Series A), type Industries / keywords (fintech, AI, biotech, climate, developer tools …) and Locations (CA, New York, Austin, United Kingdom, Europe).
3. Set Raised within the last N months and Max companies. Leave Look up the last named round and Resolve websites on; turn Extract emails & socials on if you want contacts.
4. Click Start. A 30-company run takes about half a minute; 100 companies about 1–3 minutes.
5. Open the Companies or Leads & who to sell to view, or download COMPANIES.csv, JSON or Excel.

Look up a list of companies

Put names (or domains) into Look up specific companies — each is checked in the YC directory, SEC filings (three years) and the press; you get one row per company found with its stage and last named round. Names that match nothing produce no row and no charge.

Tips

• SEC Form D covers US filers — for non-US locations the YC directory and the press do the work.
• With Locations set, a company known only from a headline is kept only when the headline itself names the place ("UK's …", "North Texas' …"); leave locations empty for the widest press coverage.
• Confidence-first ordering: named rounds come first, then YC "Early", then amount-only filings. Raise Max companies to reach the long tail of Form D filers.
• Setting a minimum or maximum amount drops companies whose source states no amount (accuracy over coverage).

How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event, no subscription: $0.03 per company delivered plus a small run-start fee. 100 companies ≈ $3; 1,000 ≈ $30. Companies removed by your filters, duplicates and empty runs are never charged. All sources are free public endpoints, so the Apify free plan covers hundreds of companies a month.

Input

Give at least one of stages, industries, locations or companies. Example:

{
    "stages": ["seed", "series-a"],
    "industries": ["fintech"],
    "locations": ["CA", "NY"],
    "raisedWithinMonths": 6,
    "maxCompanies": 30
}

All options: stages[], industries[], locations[], raisedWithinMonths (12), maxCompanies (100), foundedAfter, minAmountUsd, maxAmountUsd, companies[], sources[] (sec-form-d, y-combinator, press-search), enrichRounds (true), resolveWebsites (true), enrichContacts (false), maxConcurrency (6), proxyConfiguration (residential fallback).

Output sample

{
    "company": "Labs Companies, Inc.",
    "domain": null,
    "website": null,
    "industries": ["Other Technology"],
    "stage": "series-a",
    "stageConfidence": "high",
    "stageBasis": "SEC Form D: source text names \"Series A Preferred\"",
    "lastRoundType": "Series A Preferred",
    "lastRoundAmountUsd": 1500000,
    "lastRoundDate": "2026-09-03",
    "offeringAmountUsd": 5000000000,
    "investors": [],
    "hq": "Beverly Hills, CA",
    "city": "Beverly Hills",
    "state": "CA",
    "country": "United States",
    "foundedYear": null,
    "phone": "424-234-1083",
    "people": [
        { "name": "Durand F. Davis Jr.", "title": "Executive Officer, Director" },
        { "name": "Maya E. Davis", "title": "Executive Officer, Director" }
    ],
    "secCik": "2064977",
    "secFilingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2064977/000206497726000001/",
    "secIndustryGroup": "Other Technology",
    "secRevenueRange": "Decline to Disclose",
    "sellTo": ["sales & CRM tooling", "HR, benefits & payroll", "SOC 2 / security & compliance", "recruiting firms (first sales & engineering hires)", "marketing automation & data"],
    "sources": ["sec-form-d"],
    "sourceUrls": ["https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2064977/000206497726000001/"],
    "key": "name:labs companies",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-26T12:56:16.000Z"
}

The key-value store holds OUTPUT (a run summary: companies by stage / confidence / source, what was filtered out and why, enrichment stats, the per-source report) and COMPANIES.csv.

FAQ

How is the stage decided? From the source's own words when it has them (a Form D that says "Series Seed Preferred Stock", a headline that says "raises $12M Series A") — stageConfidence: high. YC "Early" companies are seed at medium confidence (YC's own pre-Series-A bucket). When only an amount is known, the usual US bands apply at low confidence: under $1.5M pre-seed, under $8M seed, under $30M Series A, under $80M Series B, above that Series C+. Series C, D, E… are all series-c-plus; lastRoundType keeps the letter.

Why does a company have no website? Form D filings and headlines carry no URL. The Actor runs one web search per such company and accepts a result only when the domain spells the company name (wildwestsystems.com for "Wild West Systems, Inc.") — and, for a one-word name such as "Halcyon", only when the search result is also about the company's industry. Anything less certain stays null — better no website than someone else's. Expect a website for most YC companies and for roughly one in ten filers.

Why are Series C+ YC companies listed at low confidence? The directory's "Growth" bucket only says the company raised beyond seed; the Actor buckets it by team size and marks it low. Turn on Look up the last named round (default) to replace it with the actual round when the press named one.

Does it use Crunchbase, PitchBook or Dealroom? No — those need paid seats or block automated access. The three sources here are public and free, and the row shows exactly which one said what.

Is the sellTo field a fact about the company? No — it is a hint derived from the stage and industry (who typically sells to a company at that point), meant for the agent or rep planning outreach.

Can it run on a schedule? Yes. Schedule it weekly with your stage × industry × location query and export to your CRM; use raisedWithinMonths to keep only fresh rounds.