SEC Form D Deal-Flow Tracker — Private Capital Raise API

A SEC Form D scraper and private-markets deal-flow API that pulls new Regulation D exempt securities offering filings directly from SEC EDGAR's real-time filing feed the moment they're filed, and normalizes each one into a structured deal record: issuer, industry, amount raised, investor count, minimum investment, and exemption type.

Use it to build a VC/PE deal-sourcing feed, a competitive-intelligence tool for who's raising capital in a given industry or state, an LP/fund-of-funds monitoring tool, or a data feed for financial journalism covering private funding rounds — all from the same normalized Form D data.

Why this is worth charging for

Every private company raising capital under Regulation D — the exemption used for the overwhelming majority of US venture and private equity rounds — must file a Form D with the SEC, usually within 15 days of the first sale. This is the earliest public, verifiable record that a raise happened, well before any press release, and it is a legal filing requirement, not something a company can suppress. There is no free, real-time, structured API for this anywhere:

• The only official source is a per-filing XML document (primary_doc.xml) buried inside SEC EDGAR's raw filing archive — reading it correctly means handling a real government XML schema where single-item lists collapse to bare values instead of arrays, optional financial fields are sometimes absent entirely, and identifiers like CIK numbers must not lose their leading zeros.
• The buyers are well-funded and recurring: VCs and angel syndicates doing competitive deal-sourcing, LPs and fund-of-funds monitoring GP activity, wealth managers tracking private placements, and M&A/PE researchers building sector-level fundraising maps.
• Commercial equivalents (PitchBook, Crunchbase Pro/Enterprise, CB Insights) charge hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars per year for deal-flow data that traces back to this exact same public filing.

Output

Each dataset item is one normalized Form D deal record:

{
  "formType": "D",
  "accessionNumber": "0002142516-26-000001",
  "filedDate": "2026-07-01",
  "issuerCik": "0002142516",
  "issuerName": "Example Mutual Bancorp",
  "issuerCity": "SPRINGFIELD",
  "issuerState": "IN",
  "jurisdictionOfInc": "INDIANA",
  "entityType": "Other",
  "yearOfIncorporation": "2022",
  "industryGroupType": "Commercial Banking",
  "isAmendment": false,
  "dateOfFirstSale": "2026-06-18",
  "moreThanOneYearDuration": false,
  "minimumInvestmentAccepted": 50000,
  "totalOfferingAmount": 10000000,
  "totalAmountSold": 10000000,
  "totalRemaining": 0,
  "hasNonAccreditedInvestors": false,
  "totalInvestors": 14,
  "federalExemptionsExclusions": ["06b"],
  "relatedPersonsCount": 12,
  "salesCompensationRecipientsCount": 1,
  "filingIndexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2142516/000214251626000001/0002142516-26-000001-index.htm",
  "sourceXmlUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2142516/000214251626000001/primary_doc.xml"
}

Input

Field	Description
formTypes	Which form types to include: D (new filing) and/or D/A (amendment).
maxFilingsToScan	How many of the most recent filings to check per run (SEC's feed exposes latest filings, not a date range).
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Recommended for schedules — skips filings already returned by a previous run using persisted state, so you're only charged for genuinely new deals.
minTotalOfferingAmount	Skip filings below this dollar amount.
maxItems	Stop after this many normalized deal records.
includeRawXml	Attach the fully parsed XML for audit or to access fields outside the normalized schema (full related-persons list, sales compensation recipients).

Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

• filing-checked — $0.05, charged once per form-type feed poll per run.
• deal-record — $0.25 per normalized deal record pushed. This is the primary event.
• apify-actor-start (synthetic, Apify-managed) — covers the first 5 seconds of compute per run.

A scheduled hourly or daily run typically returns a handful to a few dozen new filings, costing a few dollars per run — priced like the institutional deal-flow product it is, not a generic scraper.

Why the parser is defensive about XML shape

SEC's Form D XML schema collapses single-item lists (e.g. one related person, one exemption code) to a bare value instead of a one-element array — a well-known quirk of XML-to-object conversion that silently breaks naive parsers expecting .length on every list field. This actor normalizes every list field to a real array regardless of how many items it contains, and throws a clear error instead of returning a garbage record if SEC ever changes the root <edgarSubmission> schema. Run npm test for the offline self-test covering both the real-time filing feed parser and the Form D XML parser, including single-item-list edge cases.

FAQ

Is there an API for SEC Form D filings? Yes — this actor is that API. Run it on a schedule and every new Form D or D/A filing lands in a structured dataset you can pull via the Apify API, webhook, or direct export (JSON/CSV/Excel).

How current is the data? As current as SEC EDGAR's own real-time filing feed — typically within minutes of the filing being accepted, not the next business day.

Can I filter by industry or deal size? Yes. Use minTotalOfferingAmount to filter at the source, or filter the output dataset by industryGroupType, issuerState, or totalOfferingAmount after the run.

Does this include venture capital rounds specifically? Form D covers all Regulation D exempt offerings, which includes the large majority of VC-backed priced equity rounds, SAFEs, and private debt/fund vehicles. Filter by industryGroupType (e.g. "Pooled Investment Fund", "Other Technology") to narrow to your sector of interest.

What's the difference between this and Crunchbase/PitchBook? Those platforms enrich Form D data with additional sourcing (press releases, LinkedIn, manual research) and charge accordingly. This actor gives you the same underlying primary-source SEC filing data in real time, without the markup — pair it with your own enrichment if you need company-level context.