# Startup Funding Lead Tracker (`nexgenwatch/startup-funding-lead-tracker`) Actor

One deduplicated record per company funding round, corroborated across four public sources: SEC EDGAR Form D + Form C, TechCrunch/Crunchbase funding press, and PR Newswire/GlobeNewswire wire — with source links and observed-at provenance. Facts-only, round-level dedupe.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgenwatch/startup-funding-lead-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGen Watch](https://apify.com/nexgenwatch) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $53.60 / 1,000 funding records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxRecords` (type: `integer`):

maxRecords (buyer bound).

## `filedAfter` (type: `string`):

filedAfter.

## `filedBefore` (type: `string`):

filedBefore.

## `userAgent` (type: `string`):

userAgent.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxRecords": 300
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxRecords": 300
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgenwatch/startup-funding-lead-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxRecords": 300 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgenwatch/startup-funding-lead-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 '{
  "maxRecords": 300
}' |
apify call nexgenwatch/startup-funding-lead-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgenwatch/startup-funding-lead-tracker",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Iv8LhabFWPHyUuuMM/builds/iHRkUEfZavny6lYqo/openapi.json