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

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Track every U.S. startup raising capital the moment it becomes public record. This actor aggregates SEC EDGAR Form D filings, TechCrunch funding announcements, and the Y Combinator directory into one structured feed of funding rounds — company, amount, round type, investors, date, and source — in a single API call. Built for VC deal sourcing and B2B sales prospecting that needs newly-funded targets days before they hit Crunchbase, with zero subscription and 100% legally public data.

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 surfaces the same core information from 100% legal, public sources: SEC Form D filings (the same regulatory data Crunchbase and PitchBook pull from), TechCrunch funding announcements parsed from RSS, and YC's complete startup directory — aggregated into one schema. The wedge: three public sources in one call, no Crunchbase login, and Form D filers appear here days before the press release.

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.

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

Query YC's public API to find startups by name, industry, or keyword.

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	100	Maximum records to return
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 first record is an analytics summary — total funding volume, average round size by stage, top industries, geographic distribution, funding velocity, largest rounds, and auto-generated insights — followed by the individual 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.

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