Funding Round Intelligence API — SEC Form D, TechCrunch & YC

Pay per round. Track new startup funding as it's filed and reported — from SEC Form D exempt-offering filings and TechCrunch funding coverage — with a first-class watch/delta mode that bills only new rounds since your last run.

Point this actor at a keyword, a sector, or the whole market and get back a clean, unified record for each funding round: the company, the amount raised, the stage, the date, the industry, and a link back to the source filing or article. Run it once for a snapshot, or turn on watch mode and run it on a schedule to receive only the rounds that are new since last time — so a recurring workflow bills recurring value instead of re-paying for rounds you've already seen.

What this is, in one paragraph

Startup funding surfaces in two very different public places: the SEC's EDGAR system, where US companies file a Form D whenever they raise capital under a Regulation D exemption (a structured filing that carries the issuer, the total offering amount, and the industry), and the tech press, where rounds are announced as news. This actor reads both — the SEC EDGAR full-text search plus each matching Form D's own XML for the offering amount, and TechCrunch's public funding coverage for the headline, amount, date, and link — and unifies them into one funding-round feed. The upgrade over a plain tracker is a proper watch/delta layer: give a run a watchLabel, turn on newSinceLastRun, and the actor remembers what it has already delivered and hands you only the new rounds on each subsequent run.

Who buys this and for what job

• Venture and PE sourcing teams watching a sector for fresh raises the moment a Form D hits or a round is announced.
• Sales teams targeting newly funded companies — a fresh raise is a buying signal.
• Market and competitive analysts tracking funding velocity in a space over time.
• Builders and agents who need a keyless, unified funding feed they can poll on a schedule.

The upgrade: watch / delta mode

A tracker you run every morning is only useful if it tells you what changed. Turn on newSinceLastRun (watch mode) and give the run a watchLabel — say, ai-seed — and the actor keeps a memory of every round it has already delivered under that label. On the next run it fetches the sources fresh, compares against that memory, and delivers only the new rounds, marking each is_new. A watch-check event is billed once per watch run for the comparison, and each new round is billed as it's delivered — so the cost of a daily watch tracks the actual new-deal flow, not the size of the back catalogue.

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
apify-actor-start	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01
apify-default-dataset-item	$0.08	$0.072	$0.064	$0.0536
watch-check	$0.05	$0.05	$0.05	$0.05

A small start fee, one item charge per funding round delivered, and a single watch-check per watch/delta run. Delivered before charged.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	all_sources	all_sources (SEC + TechCrunch + YC best-effort), sec_edgar, techcrunch, or yc_startups.
searchQuery	string	—	Keyword or company to search across sources.
minAmount	integer	0	Keep only rounds at or above this USD amount (where an amount is known).
daysBack	integer	30	SEC filing-date window (1–365).
maxResults	integer	25	Maximum rounds delivered (1–500).
newSinceLastRun	boolean	false	Watch/delta: deliver only rounds new since the last run for this label.
watchLabel	string	mode	Namespace for the watch memory.

Output

One JSON object per funding round. Real example (SEC Form D):

{
  "record_id": "sec:0001798621-26-000003",
  "source": "sec_edgar",
  "company_name": "Flo Artificial Intelligence, Inc.",
  "amount_usd": 13992757.0,
  "amount_display": "$13,992,757",
  "round_stage": "Reg D exempt offering (Form D)",
  "date": "2026-07-06",
  "industry": "Other Technology",
  "location": "Menlo Park, CA",
  "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1798621/000179862126000003/primary_doc.xml",
  "cik": "0001798621",
  "is_new": true,
  "observed_at": "2026-08-25T00:00:00Z"
}

A TechCrunch record carries the title, date, amount_usd (parsed from the headline), and url back to the article. An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the mode, watch settings, and how many rounds were found and delivered.

Field reference

Each record carries record_id (source-prefixed), source (sec_edgar / techcrunch / yc_startups), company_name, amount_usd and amount_display, round_stage, date, industry, location, title (news items), url and source_url, cik (SEC), batch (YC), and is_new (set on watch runs). Provenance travels on every record: source, source_url, licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

For the SEC source, the actor runs the EDGAR full-text search for Form D filings in your date window (optionally narrowed by searchQuery), then fetches each matching filing's own Form D XML to read the total offering amount and industry — so the amount is the issuer's own reported figure, not a guess. For TechCrunch, it queries the public posts API for funding coverage and keeps only funding-relevant headlines, parsing the amount from the headline where present. Results are de-duplicated by a stable per-source id. On a watch run, the actor loads the memory for your watchLabel, drops anything already delivered, emits the rest marked is_new, and saves the updated memory. Each delivered round is charged; a watch run also bills one watch-check.

Working with the data

Because SEC amounts come from the filing's own XML, amount_usd on a sec_edgar record is authoritative and directly filterable — minAmount lets you keep only rounds above a threshold. The cik is the SEC's permanent company identifier, a clean join key into any EDGAR-based dataset. Run sec_edgar mode for structured, amount-bearing rounds; run techcrunch for the narrative coverage; run all_sources for both. Schedule a watch run each morning and pipe the new rounds straight into a CRM or a Slack alert.

Honest limitations

• Public data, as filed and reported. SEC amounts are the reported Form D total offering amount; news items carry the headline, date, and link, not the article text. Point-in-time public data, not investment advice.
• YC is best-effort. The YC company source depends on a public search key that is not always exposed keylessly; when it isn't, yc_startups degrades gracefully and the SEC and TechCrunch sources carry the run.
• No person data. Only company- and round-level facts are collected; no investor, signatory, or individual data is selected or emitted, even though Form D filings contain related-person sections.

Use with AI agents and schedules

The output is flat JSON keyed by a stable record_id, so an agent can call this actor as a tool and reason over the rounds directly — "any new AI seed rounds over five million filed this week?" is answerable by running sec_edgar with a minAmount and a daysBack, then reading the results. Paired with a scheduler, the watch/delta mode turns the actor into a standing monitor: a daily run with newSinceLastRun on delivers only the fresh rounds, which pipe cleanly into a CRM, a Slack alert, or an agent's morning briefing. Because each run is bounded by maxResults and priced per delivered round, the cost of a standing funding watch is small and predictable.

Differentiation

A funding-round intelligence API unifying SEC Form D exempt-offering filings (with real amounts) and TechCrunch funding coverage, upgraded with a first-class watch/delta mode that bills only new rounds since the last run. Keyless, pay-per-round, callable from code or an AI agent.

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Sources: US SEC EDGAR (Form D, public-domain US Government data) and TechCrunch (headlines/links). Reformatted to per-round records; values unmodified. Not investment advice. No natural-person data of any kind.