Startup Funding Tracker — SEC Form D, TechCrunch & YC (Crunchbase Alternative)

Watch mode: save a funding query once and get only the new rounds on every later run — $0.05 per check, and you pay for records only when there are new ones.

Small first run: the default returns 25 results (billed at $0.08 each, about $2) so you can verify schema and quality before a full run. Raise maxResults for full runs — every result is billed at the price shown.

Track startup capital events from complete SEC EDGAR Form D filings and validated TechCrunch funding announcements. The default all_sources mode returns TechCrunch funding announcements first, then a capped set of Y Combinator companies, then SEC Form D filings, up to maxResults.

Optional delivery: Send results straight to your own Notion database or Supabase table in the same run, via Apify's native MCP connectors — the Actor never sees your credentials. Leave blank to get the dataset as usual.

Pricing: $1 ≈ 12 results (Pay-Per-Event, $0.08 per result).

📊 Sample Output

source	recordType	companyName	industry	location	sourceUrl
techcrunch	funding_round	Enveda	Technology		https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/enveda-secures-311m-to-bring-more-n…
techcrunch	funding_round	Ema	Technology		https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/ema-raises-77m-as-ai-starts-eating-…
techcrunch	funding_round	Instinct	Technology		https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/viral-ai-startup-instinct-has-raise…
yc	yc_company	Mantle	Industrials, Manufacturing and Robotics	San Francisco	https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mantle-2
yc	yc_company	DeepMark	B2B, Security	San Francisco	https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/deepmark
yc	yc_company	Maritime	B2B, Infrastructure	San Francisco	https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/maritime

Real rows from run 2mdU43yHmba4Eq4vP on build 0.0.67 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run 2mdU43yHmba4Eq4vP (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "source": "techcrunch",
  "recordType": "funding_round",
  "companyName": "Enveda",
  "fundingAmount": 311000000,
  "roundType": "Unknown",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-23",
  "investors": "",
  "industry": "Technology",
  "location": "",
  "companyUrl": "",
  "sourceUrl": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/enveda-secures-311m-to-bring-more-nature-derived-ai-drugs-into-clinical-trials/",
  "articleTitle": "Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials",
  "articleUrl": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/enveda-secures-311m-to-bring-more-nature-derived-ai-drugs-into-clinical-trials/",
  "summary": "The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s."
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.01	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Funding round record (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.08	Charged per funding record returned
Watch check (watch-check)	$0.05	Charged once per completed watch-mode change-detection check. Only charged when watchMode is enabled.

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.08 = $8.00 plus the start fee.

🤖 For AI agents & automation

An agent can source deals and prospects from fresh funding activity across SEC Form D, TechCrunch, and YC — filter by round type, amount, or sector and return company plus investors.

Factual public data — not financial or investment advice.

Sample agent prompt:

Get Series A funding rounds from the last 30 days in fintech and return company, amount, and investors.

Output fields (one item per result):

• companyName — funded company
• fundingAmount — round size
• roundType — seed/Series A/etc.
• filingDate — filing or announcement date
• investors — participating investors
• industry — sector
• location — company location
• companyUrl — company website
• sourceUrl — source record
• source — SEC EDGAR / TechCrunch / YC

Agentic payment (x402): this Actor uses Pay-Per-Event pricing, so AI agents can run it via Apify's experimental x402 agentic-payment support — pay per call in USDC on Base, no Apify account or API key required ($1 minimum).

Related (on Apify): sales-intelligence-mcp — MCP server for agent workflows over the same data domain.

Why use this actor

Competitive-intelligence platforms charge thousands per year for startup funding data. This actor follows SEC Form D search results to the authoritative filing XML, validates TechCrunch funding events, and normalizes both into one dated funding-round schema. An explicit YC mode provides directory companies without claiming that they are recent raises.

Data sources

SEC EDGAR Form D filings (primary source)

Every company raising capital through a private offering must file Form D with the SEC — the most reliable official source of US startup funding data.

What you get: company name, CIK number, filing date, total offering amount, amount sold, number of investors, industry classification, state, and direct links to SEC filings.

Startup filter (default on): Form D is also filed by pooled investment funds, REITs and real-estate LLCs/SPVs — often the majority of a day's filings. By default those are excluded (using SEC's own industry-group classification) so the feed is operating-company raises. Set includeFundsAndRealEstate: true to include them.

Ordering: named funding announcements (TechCrunch) come first, then SEC Form D filings — each newest first — so news stories are never buried under the day's filings. maxResults is a ceiling, not a promise; a very large run that reaches its time budget delivers what it collected and says so in the status message.

TechCrunch funding news

The actor parses TechCrunch RSS feeds for funding announcements and extracts structured data: company names, funding amounts, round types (Seed, Series A/B/C), and investor names.

What you get: article title, publication date, funding amount, round type, investors mentioned, and direct article links.

Y Combinator startup directory

Y Combinator companies are included in all_sources (best-effort, capped at a third of maxResults); select yc_startups to query the directory on its own by name, industry, or keyword. daysBack and minAmount do not apply because YC does not publish funding-round dates or amounts in this endpoint.

What you get: company name, description, batch (e.g. W24, S23), status, industries, team size, location, website, LinkedIn URL, and YC profile link.

Input configuration

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	Enum	all_sources	Which sources: all_sources, sec_edgar, techcrunch, yc_startups
searchQuery	String	(empty)	Filter by company name, industry, or keyword
minAmount	Integer	0	Minimum funding amount in USD
daysBack	Integer	30	How far back to search (1–365 days)
maxResults	Integer	25	Maximum valid unique records to return (1–1,000); news first, then SEC filings, newest first
includeFundsAndRealEstate	Boolean	false	Include pooled-fund, REIT and real-estate Form D filings (excluded by default)
outputMode	Enum	raw	raw for individual records, tracker for aggregated analytics

Sample input and output

{
  "mode": "all_sources",
  "searchQuery": "fintech",
  "minAmount": 1000000,
  "daysBack": 30,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "outputMode": "raw"
}

{
  "source": "sec_edgar",
  "companyName": "Acme Payments Inc.",
  "fundingAmount": 8000000,
  "roundType": "Form D Filing",
  "filingDate": "2026-06-12",
  "industry": "Finance",
  "location": "CA",
  "cikNumber": "0001999888",
  "numberOfInvestors": 9,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001999888"
}

In tracker mode the analytics summary is written to the unbilled TRACKER_REPORT key-value-store record. The default dataset contains only individually billable records.

Use cases

1. VC deal sourcing — monitor new SEC Form D filings to discover companies raising capital before they hit the news. Filter by industry and minimum raise.
2. B2B sales prospecting — find companies that just raised $X+ and are actively spending; prime targets for SaaS, recruiting, and services.
3. Competitive funding intel — track funding in your vertical: who got funded, how much, and which investors are active.
4. Market-trend research — analyze round sizes, hot sectors, and geography over time.
5. Journalist / analyst research — structured funding data with parsed amounts and investors.

Agentic payments (AI agent buyers welcome)

This actor supports autonomous discovery and invocation by AI agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK) via Apify's official MCP server (mcp.apify.com). Agents can find it by searching for Series A funding rounds, startup investor signals, or Crunchbase alternative, and run it without a human-in-the-loop flow. No code changes on the actor side — the integration lives on Apify's infrastructure.

Watch mode — get only what's new

Set watchMode: true to turn a one-off search into a saved monitor. Instead of returning every funding round that matches your funding query, a watch run returns only the funding rounds that are new since your last run.

• First run seeds a baseline: it records what currently matches and returns 0 records — nothing to alert on yet.
• Every later run returns only the newly-appearing funding rounds (each tagged change_type: "new_filing"), plus any whose status changed.
• Point a Schedule at it (daily/hourly) and you have a standing "New funding round match" feed.

What a watch run charges: one Watch check — a flat $0.05 per run, whether or not anything new is found. You are not charged the per-funding round price on a run that finds nothing. When new funding rounds do appear, each is billed at the normal per-record rate on top of the $0.05 check.

Inputs

field	meaning
watchMode	true to enable watch mode (default false = a normal one-off search)
watchLabel	optional name; two watches with the same query but different labels keep separate memory

Worked example — watch Series B fintech:

{
  "watchMode": true,
  "watchLabel": "Series B fintech"
}

Run 1 returns 0 records and reports "baseline established: monitoring N funding round(s)". Schedule it daily; from run 2 on, you receive only the new funding rounds — a $0.05 check on quiet days, $0.05 + records on the days something lands.

Run it on a schedule

Daily is the right cadence for startup funding. TechCrunch publishes funding stories every weekday, and companies must file Form D within 15 days of their first sale, so new filings land on EDGAR every business day. Each run adds new rounds and filings rather than updating old ones, so a daily run with daysBack set to a few days catches everything without large overlap. Turn on watchMode for a scheduled feed: the first run records a baseline and returns 0 records, and every later run returns only the funding rounds that are new since the last run (tagged change_type: "new_filing"), plus any whose status changed. Send each run's results onward with a webhook, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or the Apify API.

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FAQ

Why use this instead of the official SEC EDGAR website?

EDGAR is free, but it gives you one filing at a time and covers only Form D. This actor follows Form D search results to the filing XML, adds TechCrunch funding announcements and Y Combinator companies, and returns all of them in one dated funding-round schema as clean JSON. By default it filters out pooled funds, REITs and real-estate filings so you see operating-company raises. It needs no API key, you pay per record, and watch mode turns it into a daily new-rounds feed.

What does a typical run cost?

You pay per result, not for run time: $0.08 for each row in the results, plus $0.01 per run start (charged per GB of run memory, minimum one). A run that returns 25 funding records costs about $2.01. Optional extras are charged only when you turn them on: a watch-mode change check $0.05. Live prices are always shown in the Pricing tab.

How do I find startups that just raised money?

Use the default all_sources mode, set daysBack (for example 7 or 30), and add minAmount or a searchQuery such as fintech to narrow it. TechCrunch funding stories come first, then SEC Form D filings, each newest first. Y Combinator rows are directory companies, not recent raises, and daysBack and minAmount do not apply to them.

Why do some SEC Form D records show a zero amount or no investors?

Form D filings sometimes leave out the offering amount, especially at an early stage, and news stories do not always name investors or the round type. The actor leaves a field empty when the source does not publish it. A zero-amount Form D record still tells you the company is actively raising.

Does it cover startups outside the US?

Partly. SEC Form D is US-only. TechCrunch covers funding news worldwide, and the Y Combinator directory includes international companies, so the combined feed reaches beyond the US but is not a full global database.

How many records can one run return?

Up to 1,000, set with maxResults (default 25). It is a ceiling, not a promise. Y Combinator rows are capped at a third of maxResults in all_sources mode, and a very large run that hits its time budget delivers what it collected and says so in the status message.

Related actors

• SEC Form D Scraper — Startup Funding Filings API — go deeper on Form D filings alone.
• Crunchbase News Scraper — Funding News API — a second news source for funding announcements.
• Y Combinator Directory Scraper — Startups by Batch & Industry — the full YC directory by batch and industry.
• New VC Fund Tracker — SEC Form D Fund Formation API — the fund-side filings this actor filters out by default.
• Company Enrichment API — Domain to Firmographics & Tech — add firmographics to the companies you find before outreach.