Startup Funding News & Founders: Crunchbase Alternative

Find startups that just raised a seed or Series A round, with their founders and emails: for example AI, fintech or SaaS startups funded this week.

For sales teams, lead-gen agencies, recruiters and investors who want to reach startups the week they raise money. Each row is one startup that just raised a round: company, location, round stage, amount and date, investors where announced, founders and executives with titles, phone, website, company emails, founder emails where they can be found (each labelled with a confidence level), and links to the sources.

Price: $0.05 per funded startup, plus $0.03 per founder email with medium or high confidence. Failed lookups, duplicates and filtered-out filings are free. No Crunchbase, PitchBook, Apollo or LinkedIn account needed.

What to expect, measured on test runs of 40 startups:

You get	Share of startups
Founders or executives with titles	about 90%
Company phone	about 80%
Company website	about 2 in 3
A company email (info@, hello@ and similar)	about 45%
A confirmed founder email (medium or high confidence, charged)	about 5 to 15%
An unconfirmed founder email guess (low confidence, free)	about half

Many startups that file with the SEC are still in stealth, and most publish only role addresses, so confirmed founder emails are the exception, not the rule. You only pay for the ones we can confirm.

Real results from a test run

Seven of the 40 startups returned by a test run on 12 October 2026 (funded since: 7 days). Your results also include the founders' names and emails, which are left out of this picture.

What one row looks like

Illustrative example (made-up company, real format):

Field	Example
companyName	Northwind Robotics
website	https://northwind.example/
roundStage	Seed (estimated from amount raised)
amountRaisedUsd	3,200,000
roundDate	2026-10-02
industry	Manufacturing & hardware
city, state, country	Austin, TX, United States
companyPhone	+1 512-555-0142
founders	Dana Reyes, Chief Executive Officer, dana@northwind.example (medium: built from the {first}@ pattern seen in sam@northwind.example)
bestFounderEmail	dana@northwind.example
leadInvestors	Example Ventures (from the funding announcement)
sources	SEC Form D filing link, announcement link

Three ready-made table views: Funded startups (one line per lead), Contacts (all founders, emails, phones, LinkedIn company page) and Funding rounds (stage, amount, investors, sources). Export to CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets.

Output fields

Field	What it is
companyName, description, industry, foundedYear	The startup and what it does
website, websiteConfidence, websiteFoundBy	Company website, how sure the match is (high or medium) and how it was found
city, state, country, address	Where the company is based
companyPhone, otherPhones, companyEmails	Phone numbers and published company addresses (info@, hello@ and similar)
companyLinkedinUrl, companyTwitterUrl	Company social pages, when the company links them
roundStage, roundStageSource	Seed, Series A and so on, and whether it was stated in an announcement or estimated from the amount
amountRaisedUsd, amountRaised, currency, amountIsApproximate	Amount raised, in US dollars and in the original currency
securityType, offeringAmountUsd	Equity, SAFE, convertible note or debt, and the total offering size where filed
roundDate, announcedDate	Date of first sale or announcement, and the filing or announcement date
leadInvestors, investors, investorsCount	Investors named in the announcement, and the number of investors in the filing
founders	Each founder, executive or director: name, title, role, email, emailConfidence, emailSource and source
bestFounderName, bestFounderEmail, bestFounderEmailConfidence	The best person to contact first
emailPattern, domainAcceptsMail	The company's email format when it can be learned, and whether the domain has mail servers
previousFundingFilings, previousFundingFilingDates	Earlier SEC funding filings by the same company
dataSources, sources, secFilingUrl, secCik	Where every fact came from, with links
founderEmailsCharged, collectedAt	How many emails were charged for this row, and when it was collected

Who uses it

• Sales and SDR teams: startups that just raised are buying software, services, offices and hires. Reach the founder in the first weeks after the round.
• Lead-gen and outbound agencies: a fresh list every day for clients selling to startups, with a confidence label on every email so you know what to verify.
• Recruiters: new funding means new hiring plans.
• Investors and analysts: track seed and Series A activity by state, industry and size, straight from SEC filings.
• Automation builders and AI agents: run it from n8n, Make, Zapier, Clay or the Apify API and push leads into your CRM.

How to use it

1. Open the Actor and fill in the form. Click Try for free on this page (or open the Actor in Apify Console). Set Funded since (for example 7 days) and Maximum number of startups. Optional filters: Funding stage, Industry, Minimum amount raised, Countries, US states and Keywords.
2. Press Start. A run of 25 startups usually takes two to three minutes; 100 startups take about ten minutes. You can close the page; the run carries on in the cloud.
3. Download the results. When the run finishes, open the Output tab and click Export to download Excel or CSV (JSON, XML and Google Sheets work too). Pick the view you need first: Funded startups (one line per lead), Contacts or Funding rounds.

All input fields:

Input	What it does	Default
since	How far back to look: 7 days, 1 day, yesterday or a date	7 days
maxLeads	Maximum startups to return (caps your cost)	25
fundingStages	Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C+, Other or unknown	all
industries	Technology & software, Health care & biotech, Fintech, Energy & climate, Manufacturing & hardware, Consumer, and more	all except real estate
minAmountUsd / maxAmountUsd	Round size in US dollars	from 100,000
countries / usStates	For example United States, or CA, NY	all
keywords	Match in name, description or industry, for example AI	none
includeFounderEmails	Find founder and executive emails	on
includeGuessedEmails	Add a free, clearly labelled low-confidence guess when nothing is confirmed	on
excludePublicCompanies	Skip listed companies	on
onlyYoungCompanies	Only companies incorporated in the last five years	off
skipPreviouslyDelivered	Never return a startup an earlier run already returned	off
sources	SEC Form D filings and/or funding news	both

API example:

{
  "since": "7 days",
  "maxLeads": 100,
  "fundingStages": ["Seed", "Series A"],
  "industries": ["Technology & software"],
  "usStates": ["CA", "NY"],
  "minAmountUsd": 1000000
}

Schedule it: a daily feed of newly funded startups

1. Save your filters as a task (or use one of the ready-made tasks on this page).
2. Set Funded since to 2 days and turn on Only startups not delivered before.
3. Add a schedule (Schedules, Create new, every day at 07:00).
4. Connect the output to Google Sheets, Slack, your CRM, Clay, n8n or Make with an integration.

Every morning you get only the startups that are new since yesterday, and you never pay twice for the same company.

Where the data comes from

• SEC Form D filings (United States). A startup that sells shares, SAFEs or convertible notes to investors files a Form D with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale. Filings are public and appear on EDGAR the day they are filed. They give the legal name, address, phone, industry, amount raised, date of first sale, number of investors and the executives and directors. Investment funds, SPVs, real-estate vehicles, REITs and public companies are filtered out so you get operating startups.
• Funding news and press releases. Announced rounds from public press release and startup news sources, read the day they appear. They give the round name (Seed, Series A, and so on), lead and other investors, the founders quoted, and companies outside the US (Europe, Israel, Asia). When a news round also has a Form D, both are merged into one row.
• The company's own website. The homepage and the contact, about and team pages give company emails, phone numbers, the LinkedIn company page and email addresses of staff.

Every row lists its sources with links, so you can check any fact in one click.

How websites are matched

Form D filings do not include a website, so the Actor finds it: first from links in the company's own funding announcement, then by web search, then by checking the obvious domains. Each row says how sure it is in websiteConfidence:

• high: the company's announcement links to the site, or the site names a founder or matches the filing's city, phone number or postcode.
• medium: the domain and page title match the company name, but nothing else on the site confirms it. Check these before outreach; different companies often share a name.
• Sites that show an address in a different US state from the filing are rejected, and the row is returned without a website rather than with the wrong one.

How founder emails are found

Each email comes with emailConfidence and emailSource that say exactly how it was found:

Confidence	How	Charged
high	The address itself is published on the company website or in the funding announcement	yes, $0.03
medium	Seen on a third-party page in public search results, or built from the address pattern the company really uses, learned from another published address at the same domain (for example sam@ means {first}@), on a website we matched with high confidence; the domain accepts mail	yes, $0.03
low	Most common startup pattern (firstname@domain) when nothing could be confirmed; the domain accepts mail	no, free

Guesses are never passed off as verified. We check that the domain has mail servers, but we do not send test emails, so run medium and low addresses through your email verifier before a large campaign. Board directors named in a filing are usually investors, so they are listed without a company email.

Pricing

Pay per result, no subscription:

• $0.05 per funded startup returned with its round and people.
• $0.03 per founder email with medium or high confidence.
• Free: low-confidence guesses, filtered-out filings, duplicates and failed lookups.

Example: 100 startups with 10 confirmed founder emails cost about $5.30. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Pricing examples

Measured on test runs, about 5 to 15 in every 100 startups get a confirmed founder email.

Run	Startups	Confirmed founder emails	You pay
Quick test	10	about 1	about $0.53
Default run	25	about 2	about $1.31
Weekly list	100	about 10	about $5.30
Large pull	500	about 50	about $26.50

Apify's Bronze, Silver and Gold plans pay 5%, 10% and 20% less per startup and per email. Apify platform usage is included.

Compared with Crunchbase, PitchBook and Apollo

	This Actor	Crunchbase / PitchBook	Apollo and similar contact tools
Price	$0.05 per startup, pay as you go	Annual seat subscriptions (PitchBook runs to thousands of dollars a year)	Monthly seats plus credits
Freshness	SEC filings and news read the day they appear	Depends on their research and user edits	Not focused on new rounds
Founders and contacts	Founders and executives for about 90% of startups; founder emails where they can be confirmed, each with a confidence label	Limited or extra cost	Yes, but you need the company list first
Automation	API, schedules, webhooks, CRM and Sheets integrations, AI agents	API on higher plans	API on higher plans

Use it from code (API)

Every example below starts a run, waits for it to finish and reads the results. Replace YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN with your token from Apify Console (Settings, API & Integrations). Each item is one startup; the fields are listed under Output fields above.

Python (pip install apify-client, version 3 or later)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("moggedhq/recently-funded-startups").call(run_input={
    "since": "7 days",
    "maxLeads": 5,
    "fundingStages": ["Seed", "Series A"],
})

for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item["companyName"], item["roundStage"], item["amountRaisedUsd"], item["website"])

JavaScript / Node.js (npm install apify-client, save as main.mjs)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('moggedhq/recently-funded-startups').call({
    since: '7 days',
    maxLeads: 5,
    fundingStages: ['Seed', 'Series A'],
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((s) => console.log(s.companyName, s.roundStage, s.amountRaisedUsd, s.website));

cURL (waits for the run and saves the results as a CSV file; use format=json or format=xlsx for other formats)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/moggedhq~recently-funded-startups/run-sync-get-dataset-items?format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"since": "7 days", "maxLeads": 5, "fundingStages": ["Seed", "Series A"]}' \
  -o results.csv

No-code: n8n, Make and Zapier

• n8n: add the Apify node, choose the Run Actor operation and pick moggedhq/recently-funded-startups, or call the cURL address above from an HTTP Request node.
• Make: use the Apify app's Run an Actor module, then Get Dataset Items to pass each row to Google Sheets, a CRM or email.
• Zapier: use the Apify app's Run Actor action, or the Finished Actor Run trigger to send every new result set to Sheets, Slack or your CRM.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

The Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients call this Actor as a tool, fill in the input from a plain request, and read the rows back. Input fields use plain names (since, fundingStages, industries, minAmountUsd, usStates), so an agent can fill them from a sentence like "seed rounds in California this week".

Claude Code:

$claude mcp add apify "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=moggedhq/recently-funded-startups" -t http

Cursor, VS Code and other clients that take a server URL (mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=moggedhq/recently-funded-startups"
    }
  }
}

Clients that only run local servers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@apify/actors-mcp-server", "--tools", "moggedhq/recently-funded-startups"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Example prompt:

Find seed and Series A startups in California that raised money in the last 7 days, at most 20. Give me a table with company, amount, founder, website and any confirmed founder email.

The agent reads companyName, roundStage, amountRaisedUsd, website, bestFounderName and bestFounderEmail with its bestFounderEmailConfidence, so it can say which emails are confirmed and which are guesses. The same Actor also works from Clay, Google Sheets and webhooks through Apify integrations.

FAQ

Is it legal to use this data? The Actor only reads public sources: SEC filings published by the U.S. government, public press releases and news, and companies' own websites. It does not log in anywhere and does not scrape LinkedIn. Your results contain personal data (names, job titles and business emails of executives), which is protected by laws such as GDPR in the European Union and CAN-SPAM in the United States. You should only collect and use personal data when you have a legitimate reason, and you are responsible for your outreach complying with privacy and anti-spam laws (for example, identify yourself and honour opt-outs). If you are unsure, consult your lawyer.

Do I need a Crunchbase, PitchBook, Apollo or LinkedIn account? No. Everything comes from public sources. This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SEC, Crunchbase, PitchBook, Apollo or Y Combinator; their names are used only to describe data sources and alternatives.

How fresh is the data? SEC filings are read from EDGAR the same day they are filed, and news is read as it is published. Startups file Form D within 15 days of their first sale, so a Form D row usually describes a round that closed in the last few weeks; roundDate shows the date of first sale and announcedDate the filing or announcement date.

Why is the stage "estimated" for some rows? Form D does not name the round. For those rows the stage is estimated from the amount raised (under $1.5M pre-seed, under $5M seed, under $20M Series A, under $60M Series B, above that Series C+) and roundStageSource says so. Rows from funding news use the stage named in the announcement.

Why do some startups have no website or email? Many startups that file a Form D are still in stealth with no public website. You still get the company, address, phone from the filing and the names and titles of the founders. These rows are charged as a funded startup only; no email is charged unless it has medium or high confidence.

Which countries are covered? SEC Form D covers US companies and foreign companies raising from US investors. Funding news adds rounds announced in Europe, Israel, Asia and elsewhere.

Does it return investors? Yes for rounds from funding news (lead investors and other participants as named in the announcement). Form D filings do not list investors, only how many there are (investorsCount).

Something looks wrong? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the company name and we will look at it.

Limitations

• Founder emails are confirmed from published addresses and patterns, not by sending mail. Verify medium and low addresses before large campaigns.
• About a third of SEC filers are in stealth or have no findable website; those rows have the filing's phone, address and executives but no email.
• Stage for SEC-only rows is an estimate from the amount raised.
• Investor names come only from funding announcements.
• Some company websites block automated reading; those rows may lack company emails.

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