📑 SEC Form D Private Placement Tracker — Funding Round Intel

Track every Reg D / Reg S private placement filing in the United States. Pulls Form D filings from the SEC EDGAR full-text search, then fetches each filing's primary_doc.xml to extract the structured offering data — total raised, total sold, fund type, exemption codes, related persons (officers/directors/promoters), and more.

This is the same data PitchBook, CB Insights, and Crunchbase Pro charge thousands per seat for — built directly on the public SEC source. Built for VC/PE competitive intelligence, M&A bankers, financial journalists, sector analysts, and startup deal-flow teams.

What you get per filing

• accession_number (e.g. 0001940110-25-000001), form, filing_date
• entity_name, primary_cik, all_ciks, entity_type, year_of_incorporation, jurisdiction_of_incorporation
• display_names — array of "Entity Name (CIK XXX)" labels SEC associates with the filing
• issuer_address, issuer_phone, biz_states, biz_locations, inc_states
• industry_group, investment_fund_type (Hedge Fund / Venture Capital / Private Equity)
• revenue_range, aggregate_nav_range
• federal_exemptions — array of exemption codes (e.g. 06b, 06c, 3C, 3C.1)
• is_amendment, first_sale_yet_to_occur, first_sale_date, more_than_one_year_offering
• securities_types_offered — array (Equity, Debt, OptionToAcquire, PooledInvestmentFund, ...)
• minimum_investment_accepted_usd, total_offering_amount_usd, total_offering_indefinite, total_amount_sold_usd, total_remaining_usd
• has_non_accredited_investors, total_already_invested_count, sales_compensation_recipients_count
• related_persons — array of {name, relationships, clarification} (officers, directors, promoters, executive officer)
• filing_index_url, primary_doc_url — direct links back to the SEC source documents
• source — "sec.gov"

Use cases

1. VC/PE deal-flow tracking — surface every new fund formation in your sector, ranked by total raised.
2. Startup competitive intel — daily diff of who just raised, how much, and which exemption (Reg D 506(b) vs 506(c) signals different strategies).
3. M&A target identification — companies filing Form D often signal upcoming raises that precede acquisitions.
4. Financial journalism — fast feed of every new private placement, filterable by sector / size / state.
5. Compliance / KYC — track insider relationships and officer rosters across portfolio companies.
6. Wealth-management lead gen — affluent investors backing $5M+ raises are visible via the related-persons block.

Quick start

Input:

{
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2025-01-31",
  "query": "",
  "maxFilings": 25
}

Sample output row (truncated):

{
  "accession_number": "0001940110-25-000001",
  "form": "D",
  "filing_date": "2025-03-31",
  "entity_name": "CXC Opportunities Fund, LP",
  "primary_cik": "0001940110",
  "entity_type": "Limited Partnership",
  "jurisdiction_of_incorporation": "DELAWARE",
  "industry_group": "Pooled Investment Fund",
  "investment_fund_type": "Hedge Fund",
  "federal_exemptions": ["06c", "3C", "3C.1"],
  "total_offering_amount_usd": null,
  "total_offering_indefinite": true,
  "total_amount_sold_usd": 0,
  "minimum_investment_accepted_usd": 0,
  "related_persons": [
    {"name": "Benjamin Cohen", "relationships": ["Executive Officer"], "clarification": "Managing Member of the General Partner."}
  ],
  "primary_doc_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1940110/000194011025000001/primary_doc.xml",
  "source": "sec.gov"
}

Run via Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/sec-form-d-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "dateFrom": "2025-04-01",
        "dateTo": "2025-04-30",
        "query": "biotech",
        "maxFilings": 100,
    }
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["entity_name"], "raised", item.get("total_amount_sold_usd"))

Run via cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~sec-form-d-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"dateFrom":"2025-04-01","dateTo":"2025-04-30","maxFilings":50}'

Integrations

• Zapier — trigger on each new filing matching a query, push to Slack / Notion / Airtable.
• Make.com — chain into HubSpot or Salesforce as net-new pipeline based on raise size.
• n8n — schedule daily, dedupe by accession_number, push into Postgres for trend analysis.

Pricing

Pay-per-event (PPE):

• Actor start: $0.00005 (negligible)
• Per filing: $0.15

Cost calculator:

Filings returned	Cost
25 (smoke test)	$3.75
100	$15.00
500	$75.00
2,000 (full month, broad query)	$300.00

PitchBook's standard seat is $25K+/yr for what is largely the same dataset (publicly filed at the SEC). This actor charges per filing pulled.

FAQ

Q: Why Form D specifically? A: Form D is the SEC's notice-of-exempt-offering filing. Every Reg D private placement (most early-stage VC rounds, hedge funds, PE funds, real-estate syndicates) files one. It's the closest public-data analog to a private-funding dataset.

Q: Is the total raised always present? A: Many filings list "Indefinite" for total offering amount (open-ended fund-of-fund vehicles). When that's the case, total_offering_indefinite: true and total_offering_amount_usd: null. The total_amount_sold_usd field is usually populated and is more useful for round-size analysis.

Q: Why does the actor send a contact UA to SEC? A: SEC's data-access policy requires a contact User-Agent. This actor identifies itself per that policy and stays under the 10-req/sec rate limit with built-in throttles.

Q: Can I narrow by sector or fund type? A: Yes — use query for keyword search ("biotech", "real estate", "fund"). For finer slicing, filter the result rows on industry_group or investment_fund_type downstream.

Q: Is this real-time? A: SEC EDGAR full-text search lags by minutes-to-hours after a filing is accepted. For trading-grade real-time, use the EDGAR daily-index feed instead (different actor).

Q: How are related_persons populated? A: From the filing's relatedPersonsList block. Includes the legal name, relationship type (Executive Officer, Director, Promoter), and any clarification text (e.g. "Managing Member of the General Partner").

Related actors

• Startup Funding Tracker — broader funding-event coverage including news and Crunchbase-style sources.
• SEC EDGAR Search — generic EDGAR full-text + filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, etc.).
• FEC Independent Expenditures Scraper — companion for political-finance research.

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