SEC EDGAR Filings Search & Form D Funding Leads

SEC EDGAR Filings Search & Form D Funding Leads turns official SEC public filings into a clean Apify dataset for sales, research, compliance, and market monitoring workflows. It supports two primary data paths: EDGAR full-text filing search and company submissions lookup by CIK or ticker. The default run searches recent Form D filings, which are commonly used as signals for startup fundraising, private placements, venture activity, and emerging issuer discovery.

The Actor uses only official SEC endpoints and does not require an API key. It sends the SEC-required User-Agent header, applies a conservative request throttle below the SEC fair access ceiling, and normalizes filings into a predictable schema. Instead of making users parse EDGAR response shapes, parallel arrays, accession numbers, or archive URL rules, each result is pushed as one row with company, form, filing date, accession number, and a direct SEC archive document URL.

What it does

In search mode, the Actor calls the SEC EDGAR full-text search endpoint and returns normalized filing hits. You can search for terms such as artificial intelligence, Series Seed, cybersecurity, oil and gas, or a company name, then limit the result set to forms such as D, D/A, 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, or S-1. Date filters use YYYY-MM-DD and are passed to the official SEC endpoint.

In company mode, the Actor calls the SEC submissions feed for a single company. You can provide a CIK directly or provide a ticker and let the Actor resolve it through the official SEC ticker mapping. Company submissions are returned from the SEC columnar filings.recent structure as normal rows, with optional form filtering.

In monitor mode, the Actor runs the same search as search mode but emits only filings whose accession numbers have not been seen in prior runs of the Actor storage. This is useful for scheduled lead generation, disclosure alerts, compliance monitoring, and recurring research feeds.

Use cases

Funding leads: Search Form D and Form D/A filings to discover issuers raising capital. Sales teams, data vendors, recruiters, accountants, law firms, and investor relations teams can monitor new private placement activity and enrich the results in their own CRM or warehouse.

Compliance monitoring: Track new 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, or Form D filings that mention specific risk terms, industries, subsidiaries, geographies, products, or counterparties.

Company research: Pull recent filings for a public company by CIK or ticker and export a clean dataset instead of manually browsing EDGAR.

Market mapping: Build recurring datasets for themes such as AI startups, climate technology, biotech, fintech, crypto, defense, logistics, or real estate offerings.

Data pipelines: Use Apify schedules, webhooks, integrations, and dataset exports to feed filings into Google Sheets, BigQuery, Snowflake, S3, or downstream enrichment systems.

Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "forms": ["D"],
  "startDate": "2026-06-01",
  "endDate": "2026-06-30",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "userAgent": "Example Data Team contact@example.com"
}

Company lookup example:

{
  "mode": "company",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "forms": ["10-K"],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "userAgent": "Example Data Team contact@example.com"
}

Monitor example:

{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "query": "Series Seed",
  "forms": ["D"],
  "startDate": "2026-07-01",
  "endDate": "2026-07-06",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "userAgent": "Example Data Team contact@example.com"
}

Output fields

Field	Description
cik	SEC Central Index Key, padded to 10 digits.
companyName	Company or issuer name from the SEC response.
formType	Filing form type such as D, D/A, 10-K, or 8-K.
filedAt	Filing date in YYYY-MM-DD format when provided by SEC.
accessionNo	SEC accession number with hyphens.
primaryDoc	Primary document filename for company submissions. Present in company mode.
fileUrl	Direct SEC Archives URL for the primary filing document.
snippet	Search snippet or display text for full-text search results. Present in search results when available.

Search output example:

{
  "cik": "0001817251",
  "companyName": "EquityZen Thematic Fund LLC - AI & Machine Learning Series 2",
  "formType": "D/A",
  "filedAt": "2020-08-05",
  "accessionNo": "0001801154-20-000002",
  "fileUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817251/000180115420000002/primary_doc.xml",
  "snippet": "EquityZen Thematic Fund LLC - AI & Machine Learning Series 2  (CIK 0001817251)"
}

Company output example:

{
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
  "formType": "10-K",
  "filedAt": "2025-10-31",
  "accessionNo": "0000320193-25-000079",
  "primaryDoc": "aapl-20250927.htm",
  "fileUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000079/aapl-20250927.htm"
}

Rate limits and fair use

The SEC requires automated clients to identify themselves with a meaningful User-Agent, typically including an organization and email address. This Actor requires userAgent in input or SEC_USER_AGENT in the environment. Requests are throttled to at most 8 requests per second, below the SEC fair access ceiling of 10 requests per second. Keep maxResults reasonable, schedule monitors at practical intervals, and avoid running duplicate high-volume jobs against the same query.

The default input is intentionally small: it searches Form D filings from the last 7 days and returns up to 100 rows. That keeps Apify health checks fast and makes the Actor useful immediately after deployment.

Suggested pricing

Recommended monetization is pay per event, where one event equals one normalized output result. Suggested public store tiers:

Tier	Suggested price
Starter	$1.50 per 1,000 results
Growth	$1.90 per 1,000 results
Business	$2.30 per 1,000 results
Enterprise	$2.70 per 1,000 results

This model aligns cost with delivered filings and works well for both small scheduled monitors and larger research exports.

FAQ

Do I need an SEC API key?
No. The Actor uses official public SEC endpoints that do not require an API key.

Why is userAgent required?
SEC fair access rules require automated tools to identify themselves. Use a company name and contact email.

Can I find startup funding leads?
Yes. Use forms: ["D"] or ["D", "D/A"] with relevant search terms or run the default Form D search. Form D filings often indicate private offerings and fundraising activity.

Can I monitor new filings automatically?
Yes. Use monitor mode on an Apify schedule. The Actor stores seen accession numbers and pushes only new matches.

Can I search by ticker?
Ticker lookup is supported in company mode. Full-text search mode searches filing text and metadata, so use the company name, ticker text, or other query terms.

Are results official SEC data?
Yes. Results come from official SEC EDGAR full-text search, company submissions, and archive URL conventions.

Why do some search rows use primary_doc.xml?
Form D full-text search hits often point to XML primary documents. The Actor builds the direct archive URL from the accession number, CIK, and document name supplied by SEC.