SEC Form D Scraper – Startup Funding Alerts & Private Raises

SEC Form D Funding Alerts turns the SEC's daily Form D filings into clean startup funding leads: companies that just raised (or are about to raise) private money under Regulation D. Each lead has the company's address and phone, industry, amount offered and sold, date of first sale, investor count, executives, directors and promoters, and any broker paid to sell the round, with a link to the filing on SEC EDGAR.

It reads only free, official SEC sources (the EDGAR daily index and each filing's primary_doc.xml). No login, no API key, no proxies. Run it once for a backfill or schedule it daily to get only the new raises.

What does SEC Form D Funding Alerts do?

Every US company that sells securities in a private placement under Reg D (Rule 506(b), 506(c), 504) must file a Form D within 15 days of its first sale. That makes Form D the earliest public signal that a startup or small business just raised money, often weeks before a press release.

The problem: about 85% of Form D filings are investment funds and real estate deals (VC/PE/hedge funds, SPVs, apartment syndications), and many "new" filings are late notices for rounds that are years old. This Actor filters those out by default, so you pay only for operating-company leads with a recent first sale:

• 🏢 Operating companies only by default (funds, real estate, REITs and "Investing" issuers removed), or switch to funds only or all filings
• 🆕 New raises only: amendments (Form D/A) skipped unless you want them
• ⏱️ Fresh rounds: first sale within 30 days of filing (adjustable), plus a freshRaise flag
• 🔁 Only new across runs: a daily schedule never returns or charges for the same filing twice
• 💵 Filter by offering amount, industry group and state or country
• 👥 Executives, directors and promoters as a list and a readable string, plus brokers with CRD numbers

Who is it for?

• B2B sales and agencies: freshly funded startups have budget for software, hiring, legal, accounting, insurance and marketing
• Recruiters: companies that just raised are about to hire
• Investors, angels and VC scouts: deal flow and competitive intelligence by industry and state
• Fund administrators and service providers (with Funds mode): new VC, PE and hedge funds launching each day
• Journalists and researchers: track private capital formation by region or sector

What data does it extract?

Field	Example	Notes
companyName, cik	Swep Bio, Inc., 2159106	Issuer and its SEC ID
street, city, state, zip, phone	Scarsdale, NY	Issuer contact details from the filing
industryGroup, category, isFund	Biotechnology, operating company	Form D industry group
filingType, isAmendment, filingDate	New, false, 2026-10-29
dateOfFirstSale, firstSaleYetToOccur, firstSaleAgeDays, freshRaise	2026-10-28, false, 1, true
totalOfferingAmount, isIndefinite, totalAmountSold, totalRemaining	4999976, false, 2499989	USD; totalOfferingAmount is empty when "Indefinite"
minimumInvestment, totalInvestors, nonAccreditedInvestors	0, 1, 0
entityType, jurisdiction, yearOfIncorporation, revenueRange	Corporation, Delaware, 2026	Most issuers decline to disclose revenue
federalExemptions, securityTypes	Rule 506(b), Equity
executiveOfficers, directors, promoters, relatedPersons, relatedPersonsText		People named in the filing, with roles
brokers, salesCompensation		Broker-dealers paid to sell the round (about 1 in 7 filings)
accessionNumber, filingUrl, xmlUrl		Link to the original filing on EDGAR

The Funding leads and Contacts views in the Output tab show the most useful columns. Download everything as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

How to get startup funding leads from SEC Form D

1. Open the Actor and click Start. The defaults return yesterday's new operating-company raises (the latest business day SEC has posted).
2. Optional: pick Industry groups (e.g. Biotechnology, Other Technology), States (e.g. CA, TX) or a Min offering amount.
3. For a backfill, set Start date and End date (up to about 92 business days per run).
4. To get daily alerts, save the input as a task and add a schedule (e.g. every weekday at 8:00 AM). Keep Only new leads on.
5. Send the results to Google Sheets, Slack, email, a webhook, Zapier or Make with Apify integrations.

How much does it cost?

This Actor is pay per event: you pay a small fee when a run starts and a fixed price per lead saved. Filings that are filtered out (funds, real estate, amendments, old rounds, duplicates, leads you already received) are never charged.

Event	Price
Run start	$0.00005
Form D lead (one row in the dataset)	$0.03

What that means in practice (based on October 2026 filing volumes):

• A typical weekday has about 230 Form D filings. With the default filters, about 20 are fresh operating-company raises, so a daily run costs about $0.60 (about $13 a month for a weekday schedule). Industry, state or amount filters return fewer leads and cost less.
• Funds mode returns many more rows (about 100-120 new funds per day, so about $3-3.60 per day).
• Max leads (default 100, so at most about $3 per run) and your maximum cost per run both cap the bill. When your limit is reached the run stops cleanly and saves what it has.
• Some Form D scrapers charge less per row, but they return every filing, and most of those rows are funds, real estate deals, amendments and old rounds. Here every charged row has already passed your filters and has not been delivered to you before.

Platform usage (compute) is included in these prices.

Trying it for free: there is no separate free trial for pay-per-event Actors on Apify, but the Apify Free plan includes $5 of usage every month (no credit card needed). At $0.03 per lead that covers about 160 leads a month, so roughly a week of daily runs with the default filters, or much longer with industry, state or amount filters. Set Max leads (for example 20) for a cheap first run.

Input

See the Input tab for every option. Example input for daily tech and biotech raises of $1M+ in California, New York and Texas:

{
    "lookbackDays": 1,
    "mode": "operating",
    "industries": ["Biotechnology", "Other Technology", "Computers", "Pharmaceuticals"],
    "states": ["CA", "NY", "TX"],
    "minAmountOffered": 1000000,
    "onlyNew": true,
    "maxItems": 100
}

How the filters handle the tricky cases:

• "Yet to occur" first sales (about 1 in 3 filings) are kept by default, because they are often the earliest signal of a raise. Turn off Include 'first sale yet to occur' to drop them. They never get the freshRaise flag (no sale yet).
• "Indefinite" offering amounts (mostly funds) have an empty totalOfferingAmount and isIndefinite: true. When you set a min or max amount, they are kept unless you turn off Keep 'Indefinite' amounts.
• Days since first sale is measured from the filing date, so backfills behave the same as daily runs.
• One lead per company per day: if a company files two Form Ds on the same day (e.g. a new round plus a late notice for an old one), only the one with the most recent first sale is kept.
• Use a different History store name for each saved task, so a "funds" task and a "Texas startups" task don't share history.

Output example

{
    "companyName": "Swep Bio, Inc.",
    "cik": "2159106",
    "category": "operating company",
    "industryGroup": "Biotechnology",
    "filingType": "New",
    "filingDate": "2026-10-29",
    "dateOfFirstSale": "2026-10-28",
    "freshRaise": true,
    "totalOfferingAmount": 4999976,
    "isIndefinite": false,
    "totalAmountSold": 2499989,
    "totalInvestors": 1,
    "street": "7 ROCHAMBEAU ROAD",
    "city": "SCARSDALE",
    "state": "NY",
    "zip": "10583",
    "phone": "(914) 555-0100",
    "entityType": "Corporation",
    "jurisdiction": "Delaware",
    "yearOfIncorporation": "2026",
    "federalExemptions": ["Rule 506(b)"],
    "executiveOfficers": ["Sample Founder", "Sample Cofounder"],
    "relatedPersonsText": "Sample Founder (Executive Officer/Director) | Sample Cofounder (Executive Officer/Director) | Sample Director (Director)",
    "brokers": [],
    "accessionNumber": "0002159106-26-000001",
    "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2159106/000215910626000001/0002159106-26-000001-index.htm"
}

(Person names and the phone number in this example are placeholders.) Each run also saves a RUN_SUMMARY record with how many filings were read, filtered out (by reason) and saved.

Sample leads

Real sample output from SEC Form D filings dated Oct 23–29, 2026 (default filters: operating companies, new filings, first sale within 30 days). Amounts are in USD as stated in the filing; industry is the filing's own industry group.

Company	Industry (as filed)	State	Amount offered	Amount sold	First sale / filed	freshRaise	Filing
Swep Bio, Inc.	Biotechnology	NY	$4,999,976	$2,499,989	2026-10-28 / 2026-10-29	true	filing
CVAT.ai Corp	Other Technology	DE	$5,499,997	$2,499,998	2026-10-20 / 2026-10-28	true	filing
Fathom Water Corp	Other Technology	WA	$5,399,997	$4,299,999	2026-10-16 / 2026-10-28	true	filing
Accufy Diagnostics, Inc.	Biotechnology	MD	$2,000,000	$2,000,000	2026-10-15 / 2026-10-28	true	filing
Cala Systems, Inc.	Other Technology	MA	$3,000,000	$2,550,000	2026-10-13 / 2026-10-27	true	filing
Septal Solutions, Inc.	Other Health Care	PA	$10,000,000	$7,319,695	2026-10-16 / 2026-10-27	true	filing
Navispend, Inc.	Other Technology	CT	$16,312,226	$5,312,226	2026-10-09 / 2026-10-23	true	filing

One record, abbreviated (the real output also includes street address, ZIP, phone, executive officers, directors, promoters and related persons, which are left out of this sample):

{
    "companyName": "CVAT.ai Corp",
    "cik": "2157596",
    "category": "operating company",
    "industryGroup": "Other Technology",
    "filingType": "New",
    "filingDate": "2026-10-28",
    "dateOfFirstSale": "2026-10-20",
    "firstSaleAgeDays": 8,
    "freshRaise": true,
    "totalOfferingAmount": 5499997,
    "totalAmountSold": 2499998,
    "totalRemaining": 2999999,
    "totalInvestors": 2,
    "city": "Wilmington",
    "state": "DE",
    "entityType": "Corporation",
    "jurisdiction": "Delaware",
    "yearOfIncorporation": "2022",
    "federalExemptions": [
        "Rule 506(b)"
    ],
    "securityTypes": [
        "Equity"
    ],
    "brokers": [],
    "accessionNumber": "0002157596-26-000001",
    "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2157596/000215759626000001/0002157596-26-000001-index.htm"
}

Use it via API

Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> with your token from Apify Console > Settings > API & Integrations.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("stephen-56/sec-form-d-alerts").call(run_input={
    "lookbackDays": 1,
    "states": ["CA"],
    "minAmountOffered": 1000000,
})
for lead in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(lead["companyName"], lead["totalOfferingAmount"], lead["phone"])

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('stephen-56/sec-form-d-alerts').call({
    lookbackDays: 1,
    industries: ['Biotechnology', 'Other Technology'],
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.map((l) => `${l.companyName}: $${l.totalOfferingAmount}`));

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/stephen-56~sec-form-d-alerts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&format=csv" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"lookbackDays": 1, "mode": "operating", "maxItems": 50}'

Daily funding alerts (scheduling)

1. Set your filters and click Save as a new task.
2. In the task, open Schedules and add one, e.g. weekdays at 8:00 AM (0 8 * * 1-5, with your time zone selected in the schedule). SEC usually posts the previous business day's index overnight.
3. Keep Only new leads on. Each run returns only filings you haven't received yet, so a missed or repeated run never duplicates leads.
4. Add an integration (Slack, email, Google Sheets, webhook) to receive the leads automatically.

Limitations

• Funds dominate Form D. About 70% of filings are pooled investment funds and about 12% are real estate. Expect roughly 15-35 operating-company leads per business day nationwide with default filters, fewer with industry or state filters.
• "Indefinite" amounts: many funds (and some companies) don't state an offering size.
• Old rounds: some new filings are late notices for rounds from past years; the default 30-day first-sale filter removes them.
• Public and foreign issuers also file Form D (e.g. a listed company selling a private block, or a startup based in Israel or Canada). Use isUS or the States filter to keep only US issuers. Non-US locations use EDGAR codes (L3 = Israel, A6 = Ontario).
• No emails or websites: Form D has a phone number and address, not an email. Pair it with an enrichment tool if you need emails.
• Revenue is disclosed in under 10% of filings.
• Data is as filed by the issuer; the Actor doesn't verify it.
• SEC limits clients to 10 requests per second. The Actor stays at about 4 per second, so one business day takes about a minute.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape SEC Form D filings?

Form D filings are public records published by the SEC for anyone to read. This Actor uses SEC's free EDGAR files, identifies itself with a User-Agent as SEC asks, and stays well under SEC's rate limit. Filings name executives and directors. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the EU and by other laws elsewhere, so use it only for a legitimate purpose and consult a lawyer if you are unsure.

How fresh is the data?

SEC posts each business day's index the same night or the next morning. Default settings (Business days to scan = 1) read the latest day SEC has posted. A day that isn't posted yet is skipped, never an error.

Why did I get 0 leads?

Your filters may be strict for one day, or Only new leads already delivered those filings in an earlier run. Check the run's status message or RUN_SUMMARY, which lists how many filings each filter removed. Try more days, or a new History store name.

Can I get investment funds instead of startups?

Yes. Set What to include to Pooled investment funds only. fundType says Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Fund or Other.

Can I include amendments?

Turn on Include amendments (D/A). Amendments usually update older rounds, so you may also want to set Max days since first sale to 0.

Found a bug or need a field? Open an issue in the Issues tab.