Funding Rounds Tracker: Crunchbase Alternative (SEC & UK)

Use when…

• You want newly disclosed funding rounds from SEC Form D and/or UK share allotments.
• A research agent needs a Crunchbase-style signal from official filings, not scraped DBs.
• You monitor industries, keywords or UK companies for new raises since the last run.

Try this input

Copy-paste this JSON as the Actor input (it matches a successful run / the default schema):

{
  "watches": [
    {
      "industries": [
        "Other Technology"
      ],
      "minAmount": 5000000,
      "excludeFunds": true
    },
    {
      "companyNumber": "09446231"
    }
  ],
  "lookbackDays": 3,
  "maxFilingsScanned": 2000,
  "watchlistId": "default"
}

Sample output (real run 2026-10-25)

One dataset item, shortened:

{
  "key": "uk:09446231",
  "baseline": false,
  "changed": false,
  "change_count": 0,
  "changes": [],
  "change_types": [],
  "company": "MONZO BANK LIMITED",
  "rounds_found": 36,
  "rounds": [
    {
      "issuer": "MONZO BANK LIMITED",
      "company_number": "09446231",
      "filed": "2025-09-02",
      "allotment_date": "2025-08-15",
      "share_capital_after": "GBP 41,807.801",
      "source": "Companies House SH01 (return of allotment of shares)",
      "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09446231/filing-history/MzQ3OTUxNTIyOGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0"
    },
    {
      "issuer": "MONZO BANK LIMITED",
      "company_number": "09446231",
      "filed": "2025-03-21",
      "allotment_date": "2025-03-12",
      "share_capital_after": "GBP 26,753.982",
      "source": "Companies House SH01 (return of allotment of shares)",
      "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09446231/filing-history/MzQ1OTQ1MjcwMmFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0"
    },
    "… +23 more"
  ],
  "attribution": "SEC EDGAR (US public domain); Companies House (OGL v3)",
  "checked_at": "2026-10-25T11:54:03+00:00",
  "error": null
}

What it does: Daily alerts on new funding rounds from official filings: US SEC EDGAR Form D private placements (filter by industry, keyword, US state and minimum raise, or watch specific companies by CIK) and UK Companies House SH01 share allotments for watched companies.

Who it's for: Sales and BD agents, VC/PE deal-flow tools, fintech and lending prospecting, recruiters and market-intelligence dashboards.

Price: Pay per event: $0.002 per watch checked + $0.01 per new funding round. Baseline runs are never charged for rounds. No monthly fee.

Why official filings?

Startups raising money in the US must file Form D with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale, so you often see a raise before the press release. Each row gives the issuer, total offering, amount sold so far, industry, city/state, date of first sale, number of investors, executives/promoters and a link to the filing. No Crunchbase or LinkedIn scraping, so no terms-of-service risk; SEC data is US public domain and Companies House data is under the Open Government Licence.

How it works

1. First run = baseline. Everything currently found is saved to your named key-value store funding-round-watch under your watchlistId (also as the run's SNAPSHOT record). You see the current results in each row, but no new-round charges.
2. Every later run reports only what is new since the last run (changed, changes, change_types).
3. If a source is down, that row gets an error and the old snapshot is kept, so nothing is missed or double-counted.

Watch types

Watch	Example	Finds
SEC filters	{"industries": ["Biotechnology"], "states": ["CA","MA"], "minAmount": 10000000}	New Form D raises matching all filters
Keyword	{"keywords": ["robot", "ai"]}	Issuer name or industry contains a keyword
US company	{"cik": "1318605"}	New Form D / D/A filings by that company
UK company	{"companyNumber": "09446231"}	New SH01 share allotments (equity raises)

excludeFunds (default true) drops pooled investment, hedge, PE and VC funds so you get operating companies. Form D industry names include Other Technology, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Other Health Care, Computers, Telecommunications, Commercial, Retailing, Energy, Real Estate.

Quick example

Input

{"watches": [{"industries": ["Other Technology"], "minAmount": 5000000}, {"companyNumber": "09446231"}], "watchlistId": "deal-flow"}

Change text (later run)

Boltz, PBC filed Form D 2026-10-22: raising $119,999,991 (sold $97,359,830), Other Technology, Boston MA https://www.sec.gov/...

Use it from AI agents (MCP) and code

• Apify MCP server: add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=tudorlane/funding-round-watch to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT connectors, VS Code or any MCP client. The Actor appears as a tool the model can call.
• REST (sync): POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/tudorlane~funding-round-watch/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN with the input JSON as the body.
• Schedule it: Apify Console > Schedules > daily, with the same watchlistId. Pipe new items to Slack, email, a webhook, n8n, Make or Zapier.
• Stateless agents: pass the previous run's SNAPSHOT record as previousSnapshot instead of relying on the saved watchlist.

Sample output (real run, 25 Oct 2026)

Watch	Rounds found	Example round
SEC: Other Technology, min $5M	13	RSYNQ Corp (Torrance, CA): offering $6,000,000, sold $2,000,000, first sale 2026-10-15
UK company 09446231	36	MONZO BANK LIMITED: SH01 allotment 2025-08-15, filed 2025-09-02

Use cases

1. Sales prospecting: reach companies that just raised money.
2. VC / deal flow: daily feed of new private raises in your sector.
3. Recruiting: funded startups are about to hire.
4. AI agents: "who raised over $10M in biotech this week?" in one call.

Limits & failure modes

• Official filings only, no Crunchbase data: no investor names beyond those in the filing, no press-release rounds.
• Form D misses companies that file late or not at all; amounts can be "indefinite".
• UK SH01 shows nominal share capital, not the amount raised.
• Only filings covered (SEC Form D, UK allotments) — many private rounds never appear.
• Industry/keyword filters can miss oddly described offerings.
• First run sets the baseline; “new” rounds need a stable watchlistId on later runs.

FAQ

Is Form D every round? It covers most US private raises under Regulation D. Some companies file late or not at all, and amounts can be "indefinite".

UK rounds? SH01 shows new shares being issued, the official trace of an equity round. The share capital figure is nominal value, not the amount raised.

Rate limits? It follows SEC fair-access rules (declared User-Agent, well under 10 requests/second).

Support? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.

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