💸 Seed & Pre-Seed Funding Leads

Seed & Pre-seed funding leads straight from SEC Form D, the notice a company files with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale in a Regulation D private placement. One qualified_funding_lead row per Form D filing that matches this cut, with the issuer's legal name, CIK, city and state, industry group, total offering, amount sold, first-sale date, exemptions and the EDGAR link — the facts a fund, banker, vendor or recruiter needs to act the same week.

How this cut is defined. An operating-company Form D (any industry group except Pooled Investment Fund) whose total offering amount is $3,000,000 or less — a seed-sized raise. The stage is inferred from the offering size; Form D does not state a round name. Measured on 2026-10-03 with the Store example (last 30 days, maxRecords 10): 10 leads in 17 seconds; a single filing date alone had 38 qualifying filings.

Why Form D and not news. The previous version of this actor read startup-news feeds and resolved company domains; those feeds are bot-walled or carry no sector tags, so it returned 0–1 leads per run. Form D is the primary source: the issuer files it, the SEC publishes it, and the actor reads each filing's XML directly from www.sec.gov. Pooled investment funds (VC/PE/hedge vehicles raising their own capital) are never delivered as leads.

Output is one qualified_funding_lead row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one qualified funding lead (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.05 per qualified funding lead). Source: www.sec.gov.

No login, no API key and no CAPTCHA solving are involved: the source is read logged-out.

Who buys this

Buyers usually search for seed funding or SEC Form D funding.

• Sales, SDR and vendor teams building outbound lists from seed funding.
• VC associates, bankers and analysts scanning SEC Form D funding by sector and geography.
• Recruiters and service providers who sell to companies right after they raise.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run a2VfyYbcN1R1IzfAT on build 0.1.22 (2026-10-03), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

sector	issuer_name	accession_number	filed_date	industry_group	industry_type
Seed & Pre-seed	WCG Income Fund, LLC	0002158429-26-000001	2026-10-02	Other Real Estate	Other Real Estate
Seed & Pre-seed	Nordic 15 LLC	0002158422-26-000001	2026-10-02	Other	Other
Seed & Pre-seed	Photonic Muscle LLC	0002158400-26-000001	2026-10-02	Other Technology	Other Technology
Seed & Pre-seed	ALTIUS ORTHOPEDICS, INC.	0002158363-26-000001	2026-10-02	Other Health Care	Other Health Care
Seed & Pre-seed	Renovare Therapeutics, Inc.	0002158361-26-000001	2026-10-02	Biotechnology	Biotechnology
Seed & Pre-seed	3331 Trumbull, LLC	0002158351-26-000001	2026-10-02	Residential	Residential
Seed & Pre-seed	Confirm Global, Inc.	0002158234-26-000001	2026-10-02	Other	Other
Seed & Pre-seed	MAD Management Pty Ltd	0002158228-26-000001	2026-10-02	Other Banking and Financial Services	Other Banking and Financial Services

The run finished with the status message: CAPPED: 10 Seed & Pre-seed leads from 23 Form D filings checked (5862 search matches, the last 30 days; 13 dropped by the industry-group, fund, amount, first-sale or state rules); more may qualify in the window — raise m

✅ What you get

One qualified_funding_lead per SEC Form D filing that matches the sector rule; every field is as filed on EDGAR.

Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):

• record_type (string) — e.g. qualified_funding_lead
• sector (string/null) — e.g. Seed & Pre-seed
• sector_rule (string/null) — e.g. An operating-company Form D (any industry group except Pooled Investment Fund) w
• issuer_name (string/null) — e.g. WCG Income Fund, LLC
• cik (string/null) — e.g. 2158429
• accession_number (string/null) — e.g. 0002158429-26-000001
• form_type (string/null) — e.g. D
• filed_date (string/null) — e.g. 2026-10-02
• industry_group (string/null) — e.g. Other Real Estate
• industry_type (string/null) — e.g. Other Real Estate
• entity_type (string/null) — e.g. Limited Liability Company
• jurisdiction_of_incorporation (string/null) — e.g. DELAWARE
• year_of_incorporation (integer/string/null) — e.g. 2026
• issuer_city (string/null) — e.g. DOVER
• issuer_state_or_country (string/null) — e.g. DE
• issuer_postal_code (string/null) — e.g. 19901
• issuer_phone (string/null) — e.g. 401-749-4676
• revenue_range (string/null) — e.g. No Revenues
• federal_exemptions (array/null) — e.g. ["06c"]
• security_types (array/null) — e.g. ["Debt"]
• total_offering_amount (integer/number/null) — e.g. 3000000
• total_amount_sold (integer/number/null) — e.g. 0
• total_remaining (integer/number/null) — e.g. 3000000
• investor_count (integer/null) — e.g. 0
• minimum_investment (integer/number/null) — e.g. 50000
• date_of_first_sale (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-18
• yet_to_sell (boolean/null) — e.g. True
• is_amendment (boolean/null) — e.g. False
• related_persons (array/null) — null in every sample row
• filing_index_url (string/null) — e.g. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2158429/000215842926000001/index.json
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2158429/000215842926000001/primary_doc.x
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-10-03T21:32:58Z

Every run also writes a RUN_RECEIPT record to its key-value store with the source checks it made and the counts it charged — diagnostics never land in the paid dataset.

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "maxRecords": 10,
  "lookbackDays": 30
}

The sample run charged exactly: 1 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 10 × $0.05 qualified_funding_lead = $0.52 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed.

2. A smaller, narrowed run

{
  "maxRecords": 5,
  "lookbackDays": 30
}

Caps the run at 5 rows — about $0.27 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5 × $0.05).

3. A full-size run

{
  "maxRecords": 40,
  "lookbackDays": 30
}

Up to 40 rows (the schema default for maxRecords) — about $2.02 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 40 × $0.05) if the source has that many.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run a2VfyYbcN1R1IzfAT, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "record_type": "qualified_funding_lead",
  "schema_version": "2.2",
  "sector": "Seed & Pre-seed",
  "sector_rule": "An operating-company Form D (any industry group except Pooled Investment Fund) with a total offering amount of $3,000,000 or less — a seed-sized raise. Stage is inferred from the offering size, not stated by the issuer.",
  "issuer_name": "WCG Income Fund, LLC",
  "cik": "2158429",
  "accession_number": "0002158429-26-000001",
  "form_type": "D",
  "filed_date": "2026-10-02",
  "industry_group": "Other Real Estate",
  "industry_type": "Other Real Estate",
  "entity_type": "Limited Liability Company",
  "jurisdiction_of_incorporation": "DELAWARE",
  "year_of_incorporation": 2026,
  "issuer_city": "DOVER",
  "issuer_state_or_country": "DE",
  "issuer_postal_code": "19901",
  "issuer_phone": "401-749-4676",
  "revenue_range": "No Revenues",
  "federal_exemptions": [
    "06c"
  ],
  "security_types": [
    "Debt"
  ],
  "total_offering_amount": 3000000,
  "total_amount_sold": 0,
  "total_remaining": 3000000,
  "investor_count": 0,
  "minimum_investment": 50000,
  "date_of_first_sale": null,
  "yet_to_sell": true,
  "is_amendment": false,
  "related_persons": null,
  "filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2158429/000215842926000001/index.json",
  "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2158429/000215842926000001/primary_doc.xml",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-03T21:32:58Z"
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads www.sec.gov. Public pages and feeds only; nothing behind a login.

Transport. Plain HTTPS from the Apify platform, no proxy.

Terminal states. A run ends NORMAL, CAPPED (your cap was reached), PARTIAL (something was withheld and the message says what), GENUINE_EMPTY (the source was read and truly had nothing in scope) or BLOCKED (the source refused or changed shape — the run FAILS loud and bills nothing). A zero-row run is never reported as a silent success.

Charging. Each qualified funding lead is charged at the moment it is pushed (qualified_funding_lead); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

Finding candidates. No Form D industry group defines a seed round, so this cut pages through the window's Form D filings in EDGAR full-text search order (efts.sec.gov, newest filing dates first) and fetches each filing's XML directly — one request each — stopping as soon as maxRecords leads qualify. Each filing is checked by the same engine as our Form D watch: total offering of $3,000,000 or less (or your maxTotalOfferingAmount), first sale within 90 days or yet to occur, any industry group except Pooled Investment Fund, and issuerStates / minTotalOfferingAmount when set. An offering marked indefinite carries no amount and is kept.

Window. lookbackDays (1–365) searches the last N days ending today; the Store example uses 30. Leave it empty and the run keeps the original contract: filingDates complete EDGAR filing dates (1–5, default 1 = the latest), or the first ones on/after startDate, read from the EDGAR daily index. On 2026-10-02 the search path returned exactly the same filings as reading every Form D filed that day, for all four sector cuts.

Fair access. The search host is paced at about one request per 1.2 seconds with retries and backoff (it answers an occasional 500); filing fetches on www.sec.gov at most 2 per second with the SEC-required contact User-Agent (overridable with secUserAgent). A typical run takes 15–30 seconds.

No repeats on a schedule. Every row carries the SEC accession number. A daily schedule with lookbackDays empty and filingDates: 1 delivers each filing once; a weekly schedule with lookbackDays: 7 does the same week to week. A 30-day window re-reads filings you may already hold — de-duplicate on accession_number. If EDGAR's search or daily index does not answer, or every fetched filing fails, the run FAILS with BLOCKED_WITH_ZERO and charges nothing; a window with no matching filings ends GENUINE_EMPTY, also unbilled.

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

⏰ Optional: run it on a schedule

A single run returns the current records. If you also want to be told what changed over time, open the actor in Apify Console → Schedules → Create new, add this actor with the input you want, and pick a cadence:

• Daily — 0 7 * * * (07:00 UTC): catch changes within a day.
• Weekly — 0 7 * * 1: a Monday digest.

Each run is independent; keep the same input on the schedule so the results stay comparable. Schedules can also POST results to a webhook (Console → Integrations).

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Qualified Funding Lead (qualified_funding_lead)	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 8 qualified funding leads: $0.02 start + 8 × $0.05 = $0.42
• 25 qualified funding leads: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.05 = $1.27
• 40 qualified funding leads: $0.02 start + 40 × $0.05 = $2.02

A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 1024 MB.

Yield on the sample run: CAPPED: 10 Seed & Pre-seed leads from 23 Form D filings checked (5862 search matches, the last 30 days; 13 dropped by the industry-group, fund, amount, first-sale or state rules); more may qualify in . maxRecords is a hard ceiling on what is delivered and billed, never a target.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by www.sec.gov. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, identifies itself, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (www.sec.gov) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.

Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input; BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event — retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.

Q: How many rows can one run return?
A: Up to maxRecords (default 40). Raise the cap for a bigger run; you pay per delivered row.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.

Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.

Q: How is this different from the other startup funding leads actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers www.sec.gov. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices — run several on one schedule for a combined feed.

Q: Are there rate limits?
A: The actor paces itself against the source; there is no per-buyer limit beyond your Apify plan's concurrency.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
• Status says CAPPED → your cap (maxRecords) was reached → raise it for a bigger run.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.

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