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 dated funding rounds only. Y Combinator is available as an explicit company-directory mode and is never presented as a funding round.

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).

🤖 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

Select yc_startups explicitly to query YC's public directory 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.

FAQ

Is there a free Crunchbase alternative? This startup funding scraper is a low-cost Crunchbase alternative built on legal public data (SEC EDGAR, TechCrunch, YC) — funding rounds, amounts, investors, and stages, with no scraping restrictions.

Where can I get startup funding data legally? From public sources: SEC Form D filings, TechCrunch, and YC — aggregated here into one structured funding-rounds feed.

How fresh is Form D data? Companies must file Form D within 15 days of the first sale, so leads here are typically days-to-weeks old — often ahead of the press release.

Why are some SEC amounts showing as zero? Form D filings sometimes omit the offering amount, especially early-stage. The record is still valuable for identifying companies actively raising.

Is this data legal to use? Yes. SEC EDGAR is a government database, TechCrunch RSS is a public feed, and YC's API is publicly accessible — no login, no terms violations.

Does this cover international startups? SEC EDGAR is US-only. TechCrunch covers global funding news, and YC includes international companies; combine sources for broader coverage.

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.

Related NexGenData actors

• SEC Form D Scraper — startup fundraises filed with the SEC
• YC Companies Directory — Y Combinator alumni database
• Crunchbase News Scraper — funding announcements
• AngelList Startup Search — startup index
• Techstars Companies Directory — accelerator alumni
• Company Data Aggregator — LEI, SEC funding & tech stack
• Finance MCP Server — AI-callable finance data for LLM agents

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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.