SEC EDGAR Form D — startup funding rounds, from the filing the company signed

You want a list of companies that just raised money, and every commercial database either costs four figures a year or forbids you from exporting it. Meanwhile the underlying facts are filed with the US government, in machine-readable XML, for free, by the companies themselves.

When a US company raises money privately — a pre-seed, a seed, a Series A, a real-estate syndication, a fund close — it files a Form D notice with the SEC. This Actor reads those filings and returns one row per funding round: who raised, how much, in what industry, where they are, and the officers and directors named on the filing.

date range ──►  EDGAR full-text search  ──►  primary_doc.xml  ──►  one row per round
                                                                   ├─ companyName, cik
                                                                   ├─ totalAmountSold / totalOfferingAmount
                                                                   ├─ industryGroup, yearOfInc
                                                                   ├─ street, city, state, zip, phone
                                                                   └─ relatedPersons[] (officers, directors)

Startup funding rounds without a Crunchbase subscription

Form D is not a press release and not a rumour. It is a legal filing under Regulation D, signed by the issuer, with a deadline: 15 days after the first sale. That gives it three properties no aggregator can match:

• It is the primary source. Every funding-round database in the world is, at some level, reading these.
• It is fast. The filing often lands before the announcement blog post.
• It is complete for US private placements. No editorial selection, no "notable rounds only".

It also carries something the press coverage never does: the issuer's street address and phone number, and the names and addresses of the executive officers, directors and promoters on the filing. That is a lead list, not a news feed.

What one row contains

The round — totalOfferingAmount (the size of the whole round), totalAmountSold (what has actually closed), totalRemaining, minimumInvestment, totalNumberAlreadyInvested, dateOfFirstSale, securityTypes, federalExemptions (06b = Rule 506(b), 06c = 506(c)).

The company — companyName, cik, previousNames, entityType, jurisdictionOfInc, yearOfInc, isWithinFiveYears, industryGroup, revenueRange.

How to reach them — street1, street2, city, stateOrCountry, zipCode, phone.

The people — relatedPersons[], each with name, relationships (Executive Officer / Director / Promoter) and their address, plus relatedPersonNames as a flat list ready for a CRM column. salesCompensationRecipients[] gives the placement agents and their CRD numbers.

Provenance — accessionNumber, filingDate, formType, filingUrl (the XML itself), filingIndexUrl, edgarCompanyUrl. Every row can be traced back to the exact document in one click.

Input

{
  "daysBack": 7,
  "formTypes": ["D"],
  "searchQuery": "",
  "maxFilings": 100,
  "minAmountSold": 0,
  "minOfferingAmount": 0,
  "excludePooledInvestmentFunds": true,
  "onlyCompaniesFormedWithinFiveYears": false,
  "excludeAmendments": false,
  "industryGroups": [],
  "states": [],
  "includeRelatedPersons": true,
  "requestsPerSecond": 5,
  "contactEmail": ""
}

daysBack: 7 is the whole configuration for a weekly funding feed. Set it to 0 to use explicit startDate / endDate instead. searchQuery is passed to EDGAR full-text search, so it matches text inside the filings — "artificial intelligence" in quotes for an exact phrase.

Output

{
  "accessionNumber": "0002153881-26-000001",
  "formType": "D",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-05",
  "cik": "0002153881",
  "companyName": "Eletusk, Corp",
  "entityType": "Corporation",
  "jurisdictionOfInc": "DELAWARE",
  "yearOfInc": "2026",
  "isWithinFiveYears": true,
  "street1": "1 MAIN ST",
  "city": "Indianapolis",
  "stateOrCountry": "IN",
  "stateOrCountryDescription": "INDIANA",
  "zipCode": "46204",
  "phone": "3175551234",
  "industryGroup": "Other Technology",
  "revenueRange": "No Revenues",
  "totalOfferingAmount": 100000,
  "totalAmountSold": 35000,
  "totalRemaining": 65000,
  "isIndefiniteOffering": false,
  "minimumInvestment": 5000,
  "totalNumberAlreadyInvested": 3,
  "hasNonAccreditedInvestors": false,
  "dateOfFirstSale": "2026-08-20",
  "isAmendment": false,
  "securityTypes": ["Equity"],
  "federalExemptions": ["06b"],
  "relatedPersons": [
    {
      "name": "Timothy Kamer",
      "relationships": ["Executive Officer", "Director"],
      "street1": "1 MAIN ST",
      "city": "Indianapolis",
      "stateOrCountry": "IN",
      "zipCode": "46204"
    }
  ],
  "relatedPersonNames": ["Timothy Kamer", "Ronald Reeves"],
  "salesCompensationRecipients": [],
  "statesOfSolicitation": [],
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2153881/000215388126000001/primary_doc.xml",
  "filingIndexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2153881/000215388126000001/",
  "edgarCompanyUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=0002153881",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-10T18:22:01+00:00"
}

Use cases

• Funding-triggered outreach — companies that closed a round in the last seven days, filtered to minAmountSold: 1000000 and your industry. They have budget now and did not have it last month.
• Recruiting after a raise — a company that just closed a Series A is about to hire. Pair the output with a jobs Actor and you see what for.
• Investor and placement-agent mapping — salesCompensationRecipients names the brokers and their CRD numbers, round after round.
• Regional deal flow — states: ["TX"] plus excludePooledInvestmentFunds: true gives you every operating company that raised in Texas this month.
• Market research — industryGroups: ["Technology"] over a year of filings is a real, unfiltered census of private tech fundraising, not a curated list.

Honest limitations

• US only. Form D is a US federal filing. A European or Asian company appears only if it raised from US investors under Regulation D.
• Roughly half of all Form D filings are investment funds, not operating companies — a fund raising from its LPs files exactly the same form as a startup raising a seed. Set excludePooledInvestmentFunds: true to drop them.
• Form D does not say "Series A". It reports amounts, not round labels. totalOfferingAmount, totalAmountSold and isWithinFiveYears are what you get; the round name is your inference.
• "Indefinite" is a legal answer. Funds often decline to state an offering size. Those rows have totalOfferingAmount: null and isIndefiniteOffering: true rather than a fabricated number.
• totalAmountSold can be 0 on a filing made before the first close. That is the issuer's own answer, reported as filed.
• No valuation, no investor names, no round labels. Form D does not contain them and this Actor does not invent them.
• EDGAR full-text search covers 2001 onwards, and returns at most 10,000 hits per query — wide date ranges are automatically split in half until each window fits.

Data source and politeness

Two official, public, unauthenticated SEC endpoints, and nothing else:

• https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index — EDGAR full-text search.
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/... — the filed primary_doc.xml.

The SEC explicitly permits scripted access at up to 10 requests per second with a declared User-Agent. This Actor defaults to 5 and refuses to go above 10. sec.gov/robots.txt disallows /cgi-bin, so no request is ever made there. EDGAR filings are US federal government works in the public domain.

Set contactEmail to put your own address in the User-Agent header. It is optional — a link to this Actor is sent otherwise — but it is the courteous thing to do.

Works with

• Website Tech Stack & Email Finder — turn a funded company's domain into emails, tech stack and its ATS board token.
• Bulk Email Verifier — clean the addresses before you mail them.
• Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable — Career Site Jobs API — see what the newly funded company is hiring for.

FAQ

Is scraping SEC EDGAR allowed? Yes. The SEC publishes the rules for automated access and this Actor follows them: declared User-Agent, 5 requests per second by default, and no requests to disallowed paths.

How current is it? Filings appear in EDGAR full-text search within roughly a day of acceptance. daysBack: 7 on a daily schedule keeps a rolling window with overlap.

How many filings are there? Around 200 Form D notices are filed on a typical US business day. maxFilings caps every run so a wide date range cannot run away with your budget.

Does it include Form D/A amendments? Only if you ask. formTypes: ["D", "D/A"] includes them; excludeAmendments: true drops them from the output so each round appears once.

What does it cost? Pay per event: a fixed fee to start the run, plus a small fee per filing returned.