Startup Funding Signals — SEC Form D, TechCrunch & YC Leads

Startup funding scraper & investor lead finder — SEC Form D filings, TechCrunch rounds and Y Combinator companies as scored B2B sales leads.

Companies that just raised money have budgets. A fresh raise is the classic B2B buying signal: new headcount, new tooling, new vendors — decided in the following weeks. This Actor turns three public sources into scored, outreach-ready lead records:

Source	What you get
SEC EDGAR Form D	Official US capital-raise filings — amounts, executives with roles, company phone numbers, revenue range, still-raising status. Companies must file within 15 days of first sale, so this is fresher than most databases
TechCrunch	Announced rounds worldwide, parsed from the venture feed into company + amount + round
Y Combinator	Current-batch companies with websites and team sizes — funded by definition

No API keys, no Crunchbase account, no paywalls — 100% public primary sources.

What makes these leads different

Fields competitors don't surface:

• phone — the issuer phone number straight from the official filing. A direct channel that no scraped database gives you.
• raise_status: still_raising — Form D shows amount_remaining > 0: the round is open right now. These companies are simultaneously (a) spending and (b) looking for investors — two audiences, one record.
• officers with roles (Executive Officer, Director, Promoter) plus ready-made LinkedIn people-search links per officer — from filing to outreach in one click.
• is_amendment — D/A filings update earlier ones and reveal raise progress over time.
• revenue_range, investors_count, minimum_investment, year_of_incorporation — qualification fields for free.
• funding_score 0–100 — transparent lead scoring (see below). Sort descending, call the top first.

💥 Composite intent: funded AND hiring

For the top-scored leads, the Actor probes 7 ATS job boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Workday, Personio): does the freshly-funded company have a live job board? hiring_check returns the board URL and open-jobs count, and composite_intent_score adds +15.

Money in the bank AND actively hiring = spending mode confirmed by two independent sources. (Toggles: checkHiring, checkHiringTop.)

The funding_score

Component	Max	Meaning
Filing freshness (30-day decay)	30	New money = active decisions
Amount actually raised	25	$1M+/$10M+/$50M+ buckets
Round still open	15	Actively fundraising right now
Named officers	10	Reachable decision makers
Brand-new filing (not amendment)	10	First signal, not an update
5+ investors already in	10	Momentum

Typical setups

• B2B sales: daysBack: 7, excludeRealEstate: true, minAmountRaised: 1000000, schedule weekly → fresh operating companies with $1M+ in the bank, sorted by score, with phones and officer names.
• Agencies & service providers: watch mode (onlyNewEvents: true) daily → only new raises since yesterday, piped to Slack/Sheets via Apify integrations.
• Investors & bizdev: raise_status == "still_raising" → companies with open rounds; is_amendment tracking shows whose raise is progressing.
• Real-estate capital markets: leave excludeRealEstate off — Form D is the richest public feed of syndication sponsors raising capital, with sponsor phones.

Filters

daysBack (1–90) · minAmountRaised · keywords (name/industry/description) · industryFilter · locationFilter (state/city) · excludeInvestmentFunds (on by default — hides VC/PE fund vehicles) · excludeRealEstate · excludeAmendments · maxFilings · maxYcCompanies

Modes

• outputMode: flat_leads — one flat row per event (no nested objects): company, score, amount, status, phone, officers as text, first-officer LinkedIn link. Export to CSV/Google Sheets/CRM with zero post-processing.
• Watch mode (onlyNewEvents) — remembers seen events in your account and emits only new ones. First run = baseline; schedule it daily and get a clean fresh-raises feed. No extra "watch fee" — you pay only for actual new results.
• market_summary — every run ends with one analytics record: totals, medians, largest round, top industries and states, open-rounds count.

Honest limitations

• Form D covers US private placements only; TechCrunch adds global announced rounds.
• Some filings state Indefinite amounts — kept, with null amount fields.
• Form D is filed up to 15 days after first sale — "fresh", not "real-time".
• TechCrunch parsing is headline-based; only clear "X raises $Y" announcements are captured.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes — SEC EDGAR is a public government database explicitly published for public use; TechCrunch RSS and the YC directory are public feeds. The Actor respects SEC fair-access guidelines (identified requests, throttled rate).

Why do I see real-estate LLCs? Form D is heavily used by real-estate syndications. Turn on excludeRealEstate if you sell to tech companies.

Something broken or missing a feature? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — I respond within 1–2 business days.

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Pair it with ATS Hiring Signals: a company that just raised AND is hiring for your keywords is the hottest lead there is. Run both on a schedule and join on company name.