# UK Startup Funding Tracker — Companies House SH01 API (`nexgendata/uk-startup-funding-tracker`) Actor Detects UK startup funding rounds from Companies House SH01 (return of allotment) filings — on the public record, by law, before most press coverage. - **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/uk-startup-funding-tracker.md - **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community) - **Categories:** Business, Lead generation - **Stats:** 4 total users, 3 monthly users, 88.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $35.00 / 1,000 uk funding rounds This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## UK Startup Funding Tracker — Companies House SH01 API **Every UK funding round, from the legal filing — before the press release.** When a UK company issues shares, it must file an **SH01 (return of allotment of shares)** at Companies House, by law, within one month. That puts UK equity raises on the public record before most of them are ever announced. This actor polls the free Companies House REST API for SH01 / capital-category filings and returns one normalized detection record per allotment. This is public-record detection — not investment advice, and not a trading signal. ### Weekly: who raised in the UK this week Point it at the last 7 days and get a clean list of UK companies that just filed a share allotment — company, filing date, allotment date, post-allotment capital, registered office, SIC, and current officers. Run it on a schedule for a standing "UK rounds this week" feed. ### Who uses this - **VCs** sourcing UK deal flow the week it's filed, not the month it's announced. - **Sales / BD teams** targeting newly-funded UK startups. - **Recruiters** tracking companies about to hire. - **UK service providers** (legal, accounting, banking) — the Beauhurst buyer, at a fraction of the price. ### Works out of the box — hybrid key model Runs immediately with a built-in Companies House key: the one-click run and both example tasks work with **zero setup**. Built-in-key runs are capped at **200 records/run** to protect the shared key. For high-volume or scheduled monitoring, **bring your own free Companies House key** — paste it into the `companyHouseApiKey` input and the cap is removed. Getting one takes about 2 minutes: 1. Go to `developer.company-information.service.gov.uk` and sign in / register. 2. Create an application (REST, **Live** environment). 3. Generate a REST API key and paste it into `companyHouseApiKey`. ### What you get — one record per allotment | Field | Example | |---|---| | `company_name` | `UNREAL SOLUTIONS LTD` | | `company_number` | `14451923` | | `filing_date` | `2025-10-01` | | `allotment_date` | `2025-09-17` | | `capital_after` | `200` (nominal statement of capital, GBP) | | `capital_delta` | `null` (derived only when a prior capital figure is available) | | `share_class` | `null` (in the filing PDF — v2) | | `registered_address` | `..., London, EC2A ...` | | `sic_codes` | `["62012"]` | | `officers_snapshot` | `[{"name":"...","role":"director"}]` | | `filing_link` | `https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14451923/filing-history/...` | ### Pricing Pay-per-event: **£/$0.035 per UK funding round record** at the founding rate — about **$1 ≈ 28 records**. You pay only for allotments returned; a run that matches nothing costs effectively nothing. ### Inputs `daysBack` / `dateFrom` / `dateTo` (SH01 filing window) · `sicCodes` (universe filter) · `region` · `incorporatedFrom` (startup universe bound) · `minCapitalChange` · `maxCompanies` · `companyHouseApiKey` (optional override). ### Two ready-to-run examples **1. This week's UK rounds** (tech universe, last 7 days) ```json { "daysBack": 7, "sicCodes": ["62012","62020","62090","63110","58290","72190"], "maxCompanies": 300 } ```` **2. London tech raises over £1M capital change** ```json { "region": "london", "sicCodes": ["62012","62020","62090","63110"], "daysBack": 30, "minCapitalChange": 1000000 } ``` ### Use with AI agents The record schema is agent-friendly. Point an LLM agent at the dataset and ask: - *"List London companies that filed an SH01 in the last 7 days with a director appointed this year, and draft a one-line intro for each."* - *"Group this week's allotments by SIC and flag any company that also appears in my CRM."* - *"Which of these registered offices are in Cambridge or Oxford?"* Callable over the Apify API/MCP, so it drops straight into agent tool-chains. ### The NexGenData funding-intelligence cluster — four money-in signals, one shelf - **[Startup Funding Tracker](https://apify.com/nexgendata/startup-funding-tracker)** — US equity rounds (SEC Form D, TechCrunch, YC). - **[SEC New VC Fund Tracker](https://apify.com/nexgendata/sec-new-vc-fund-tracker)** — new US venture fund formations. - **[US Grant Awards Tracker](https://apify.com/nexgendata/us-grants-funding-tracker)** — non-dilutive US government money (SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF). - **UK Startup Funding Tracker** (this actor) — UK equity rounds from Companies House SH01 filings. Working UK company data more broadly? Pair with **[France Companies Search](https://apify.com/nexgendata/france-pappers-companies)** for EU coverage and **[UK Find a Tender](https://apify.com/nexgendata/uk-find-a-tender)** for UK public-sector contract awards. ### Honest limits - **SH01 filing lag.** Companies have up to one month to file an SH01 after the allotment, and some file late. `allotment_date` is the true event date; `filing_date` is when it hit the register. This tracks *filed* allotments. - **Not every allotment is a fundraise.** SH01 is also filed for **share option exercises**, **bonus / capitalisation issues**, and intra-group reorganisations. Use `minCapitalChange`, `sicCodes`, and `incorporatedFrom` to bias toward genuine venture rounds, and treat each record as a lead to verify, not a confirmed raise. - **Nominal capital ≠ amount raised.** `capital_after` is the *nominal* statement of capital (often £1–£1,000). The actual money raised (share premium) lives in the filing PDF — parsing that is **v2**. `shares_allotted` and `share_class` are likewise in the PDF and returned as `null` in v1. - **Bounded universe (v1 = polling).** v1 scans a bounded company universe (by SIC, region, incorporation date) rather than the entire register. The full real-time firehose across all UK companies is the Companies House **streaming** feed — planned for **v2**. Widen `sicCodes` / `maxCompanies` / `incorporatedFrom` to broaden coverage. Data: Companies House, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. # Actor input Schema ## `daysBack` (type: `integer`): Detect SH01 filings from this many days ago until today (ignored if 'Filing date from' is set). Remember SH01s can be filed up to ~1 month after the allotment. ## `dateFrom` (type: `string`): Earliest SH01 filing date. Overrides Days back. ## `dateTo` (type: `string`): Latest SH01 filing date. Defaults to today. ## `sicCodes` (type: `array`): Narrow the scanned universe to these SIC codes, e.g. 62012, 62020 (software), 63110 (data processing). Fewer/looser codes = broader scan. Leave empty to scan all active companies incorporated since the date below. ## `region` (type: `string`): Registered-office location filter, e.g. 'london', 'manchester', 'cambridge'. ## `incorporatedFrom` (type: `string`): Bounds the universe to companies incorporated on/after this date (startups). Default 2015-01-01. ## `minCapitalChange` (type: `integer`): Only return allotments whose capital signal (derived delta where available, else post-allotment nominal statement of capital) is at least this. Note: nominal capital != amount raised (premium is in the PDF — v2). ## `maxCompanies` (type: `integer`): Cap on the company universe scanned per run (rate-limit friendly). ## `companyHouseApiKey` (type: `string`): Bring your own free Companies House REST key for high-volume or scheduled monitoring — overrides the built-in key and removes the per-run record cap. Get one free in ~2 min at developer.company-information.service.gov.uk. ## Actor input object example ```json { "daysBack": 30, "sicCodes": [ "62012", "62020", "62090", "63110", "58290", "72190" ], "incorporatedFrom": "2015-01-01", "minCapitalChange": 0, "maxCompanies": 300 } ``` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = {}; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/uk-startup-funding-tracker").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = {} # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("nexgendata/uk-startup-funding-tracker").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{}' | apify call nexgendata/uk-startup-funding-tracker --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/uk-startup-funding-tracker", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "UK Startup Funding Tracker — Companies House SH01 API", "description": "Detects UK startup funding rounds from Companies House SH01 (return of allotment) filings — on the public record, by law, before most press coverage.", "version": "0.0", "x-build-id": "sqDdUlmd3YYtgEzx1" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/nexgendata~uk-startup-funding-tracker/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-nexgendata-uk-startup-funding-tracker", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/nexgendata~uk-startup-funding-tracker/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-nexgendata-uk-startup-funding-tracker", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/nexgendata~uk-startup-funding-tracker/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-nexgendata-uk-startup-funding-tracker", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "daysBack": { "title": "Days back", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 366, "type": "integer", "description": "Detect SH01 filings from this many days ago until today (ignored if 'Filing date from' is set). Remember SH01s can be filed up to ~1 month after the allotment.", "default": 30 }, "dateFrom": { "title": "Filing date from (YYYY-MM-DD)", "type": "string", "description": "Earliest SH01 filing date. Overrides Days back." }, "dateTo": { "title": "Filing date to (YYYY-MM-DD)", "type": "string", "description": "Latest SH01 filing date. Defaults to today." }, "sicCodes": { "title": "SIC codes (company universe filter)", "type": "array", "description": "Narrow the scanned universe to these SIC codes, e.g. 62012, 62020 (software), 63110 (data processing). Fewer/looser codes = broader scan. 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Note: nominal capital != amount raised (premium is in the PDF — v2).", "default": 0 }, "maxCompanies": { "title": "Max companies to scan", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 5000, "type": "integer", "description": "Cap on the company universe scanned per run (rate-limit friendly).", "default": 300 }, "companyHouseApiKey": { "title": "Companies House API key (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Bring your own free Companies House REST key for high-volume or scheduled monitoring — overrides the built-in key and removes the per-run record cap. 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