Startup Funding Tracker: Who Just Raised Money

Find US companies that just raised money, straight from the SEC's own records, with the investment funds stripped out and each company matched to its website and checked for whether it has started hiring.

No API key, no login, no proxy.

What does this do?

When a company raises money privately it files a Form D with the SEC, usually within fifteen days. That filing is public the moment it lands — long before a funding announcement, a press release, or a database entry.

The problem is that most Form D filings are not startups. In a measured sample of 60 consecutive filings, 37 were pooled investment funds and 6 were property partnerships. Ship "recent Form D filings" as a funding feed and you are mostly shipping fund paperwork.

This Actor reads the filings, throws away the funds and the property deals, matches what is left to a real company website, and then checks whether that company has started hiring.

flowchart LR
    A[SEC Form D filings] --> B[Drop funds, property<br/>and listed companies]
    B --> C[Match to the company's<br/>own website]
    C --> D[Hiring check on its<br/>careers board]
    D --> E[Ranked: who is worth a call]

Who is it for?

You are	You use it to
A sales team selling to startups	Reach companies in the weeks after the money lands, when budget exists
A recruiter	Find funded companies before they publish the roles
An investor or scout	See raises that never get announced anywhere
An agency	Catch companies at the moment they start spending
A journalist	Spot a raise from the filing, not the press release

What data do you get?

Field	What it is
company, website, industry	Who filed, their site, and the industry they chose
amountRaised, amountBand	Dollars actually sold, not just registered
offeringAmount, percentOfOfferingSold	How big the round is and how much has closed
filedAt, stateOrCountry, yearOfIncorporation	When, where, and how old
officers	How many people signed the filing
entityKind	Operating company, or a likely deal vehicle
signalScore, band, evidence	How much evidence there is, and exactly what it was
hiringSignal, openRoles, careersBoard	Whether they are hiring since the raise
whyUnknown	Every check that could not be made, in words
secFilingUrl, cik	A link straight back to the filing

Example: two weeks of filings, 24 September 2026

A live run read 283 of 2,777 filings, kept 40 operating companies, and took 119 seconds.

Company	Band	Raised	Why
Titan OS Inc	worth a call (5)	$4,000,000	Raise plus open roles (moderate hiring)
GridX, Inc.	worth a call (5)	$7,500,000	Raise, some hiring, 8 officers
Mojave Energy Systems, Inc.	worth a call (5)	$24,976,722	Large raise, 6 officers
Caspian Therapeutics, Inc.	worth a look (4)	$50,000,000	Very large raise, nothing else visible yet
Travel Curious Group Inc.	worth a look (4)	$2,020,591	Raise, 6 officers

Most young companies have no public careers board yet. In that run, 24 companies had a confirmed website and 2 of them had a findable board. The other 22 are reported as hiring unknown, never as "not hiring".

What it refuses to do

• It does not pretend a fund is a startup. Funds and property partnerships are removed before anything else. That single filter is most of the value here.
• It does not let listed companies flatter the ranking. Public companies file Form D too, and they almost always have an active careers board. In testing, NASDAQ-listed Lexaria filed for $113,000 and outranked a $7.8M private raise. Listed filers are now excluded by default.
• It does not guess a website. A domain is only accepted if the page actually mentions the company, with the name matched as whole words and the site's own address ignored — a placeholder whose entire content was its own domain name once confirmed itself. When nothing passes, the row says so instead of linking somewhere wrong. About 40% of filings get a confirmed website; the rest are honestly blank.
• It does not treat "unknown" as "no". A company with no findable careers board is not "not hiring", and when the hiring check is switched off its fields are left empty, never reported as a failed reading.
• It flags deal vehicles. SPACs and acquisition holdcos file large, real Form Ds — one in testing raised $117M — but they are not companies you can sell to. They are marked likely deal vehicle rather than silently dropped.
• It stops when the SEC says stop. EDGAR allows about ten requests a second. An early version went faster and was refused for several minutes, grinding through a thousand filings and keeping none. It now paces well under the limit, backs off on a refusal, and tells you plainly if the service is closed rather than returning an empty list.

Popular funding reports

Ready-made runs you can open and start, or copy as a starting point:

• Companies That Just Raised Money
• Startup Funding This Week
• Tech Startup Funding Rounds
• Biotech and Pharma Funding Rounds
• Seed and Early Funding Rounds
• Large Funding Rounds
• Funded Startups That Are Hiring
• California Startup Funding
• New York Startup Funding
• Texas Startup Funding
• AI Startup Funding
• Fintech Funding Rounds
• SEC Form D Filings
• Massachusetts Startup Funding
• Healthcare Funding Rounds

Pricing

$0.005 per filing and $0.005 per company checked for hiring. A filing with no confirmed website is only charged the first, because only the first was done.

A two-week run over 40 filings, 24 of them checked, costs about $0.32. Turn the hiring check off for a plain funding feed and the same run is $0.20.

Input

Setting	What it does
How many days back	1 to 90. About 1,200 Form Ds are filed a week
Which companies to keep	Operating companies by default; or technology only, health only, or everything including funds
Minimum raised	Skip anything below a dollar figure actually sold
Only these states	Two-letter codes, for example CA, NY, TX
Only companies matching these words	Filter by name or industry
Find each company's website	On by default; the confirmed-match rule above applies
Check whether the company is hiring	Open roles and recent postings on its careers board. Off for a cheaper, plain feed
Include publicly listed companies	Off by default, for the reason above
Include amended filings	Off by default, so one round is not counted twice

Integrations

Runs on a schedule and connects to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make or your own code through the Apify API. A weekly run turns Form D into a feed of companies in the first weeks of having money to spend.