Startup Funding Lead Tracker

One structured funding_record per record from proven public sources, logged-out. Public, robots-honoured.

Difference: one deduplicated record per company-round, assembled and corroborated across FOUR proven public sources — SEC EDGAR Form D (Reg D private placements), SEC EDGAR Form C (Reg CF crowdfunding, round_type marked), funding press (TechCrunch venture + Crunchbase News, headline facts only — no body text), and wire press (PR Newswire + GlobeNewswire, funding-event classification on headlines). Every record carries its corroborating source links and an observed-at timestamp; round-level dedupe merges the sources. Y Combinator batches are excluded honestly (their directory is token-gated); the four proven, logged-out legs ship. vs the fleet-1 anchor: a crowdfunding class and wire coverage the anchor doesn't carry, with cross-source corroboration. vs our Form-D watch / vertical / regional trackers: the all-sector, all-source merged flagship.

What you get

One funding_record per company-round, deduplicated on the source-native id. Fields the sources do not publish are honest null. A run_receipt row carries the source URLs, scope, reconciliation counts, and delivered/duplicate totals.

How it behaves

Each source is pulled logged-out over a filing window (filedAfter/filedBefore, default the last 14 days): EDGAR full-text search for Form D and Form C, and the press + wire RSS feeds classified for funding events on the HEADLINE ONLY. Events are normalised (company-name cleaned of legal suffixes) and merged by company + announced month into one company-round record with the union of corroborating source links, an observed-at on each, a source_count and source_type_count, and a corroborated flag (two or more INDEPENDENT source types). Facts only — no article body is ever stored. Streaming, bounded to maxRecords.

Sources & provenance

Every record's sources array lists each corroborating hit as {source, publisher, url, headline, form_type, observed_at}. corroborated is true when at least two independent source types agree on the company-round. Press and wire legs are headline-surface only — company, round, amount, investors, headline and link are taken from the headline; article bodies are never fetched or stored.

Y Combinator

YC's companies directory opens only through a rotating embedded Algolia key (token replay), which our access laws forbid — so YC is excluded and the four proven, logged-out legs ship. If YC later exposes a logged-out door, it joins as a fifth leg.

Source

SEC EDGAR Form D/C (efts.sec.gov) + TechCrunch/Crunchbase + PR Newswire/GlobeNewswire

Pricing

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD+
apify-actor-start (one-time actor start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
funding_record (per unique record)	$0.08	$0.072	$0.064	$0.0536

Charged once per unique record delivered. Start fee $0.02.