See who raised money before the press writes about it. When a US company raises private capital under Regulation D, it must file a Form D with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale - and that filing appears in EDGAR days before (and often without) any news coverage. This monitor scans the most recent Form D filings, filters out the noise, and returns a ranked list of real capital raises with amounts, industry, executives and a 0-100 funding score.
What it does
- The fund filter: the majority of Form D filings are hedge/PE/VC vehicles raising their own capital. Those are classified (industry group + 3C exemption codes) and excluded by default, so what remains is the actual operating-company signal.
- Structured amounts: total offered, sold and remaining parsed from the filing XML - including "Indefinite" offerings, handled explicitly.
- The people: executives, directors and promoters (related persons) returned per raise.
- New vs amendment: a fresh raise (Form D) scores above an update to an existing one (D/A).
- Funding score 0-100: amount, freshness, equity vs debt and investor momentum in one transparent score.
- A direct SEC.gov link for every filing.
Who uses Form D data
- Investors and analysts tracking private-market activity before it hits the news.
- Sales and BD teams using fresh raises as buying signals (companies that just raised, spend).
- Founders and VCs monitoring competitor fundraising.
- Fintech, data apps and researchers embedding a clean funding feed.
How it works
The monitor reads the official SEC EDGAR daily form index (free, public, stable), fetches each Form D submission and parses the structured XML inside it. No HTML scraping, no third-party news sites, polite SEC rate limiting. One $0.20 scan returns the full ranked window - up to hundreds of analyzed filings.
Example
One real EDGAR day surfaced CesiumAstro (space communications) with a $270M equity raise and EnerVenue (energy storage) with $339M at the top of the ranking - both with named executives parsed from the filing, before mainstream funding coverage.
FAQ
Why is a company I know raised money missing?
Form D covers Regulation D exempt offerings; raises under other exemptions or public registration file different forms.
Why filter out funds?
By count, most Form Ds are investment vehicles raising their own capital - noise for a startup-funding signal. Switch them back on with one input flag.
How fresh is this?
EDGAR publishes the daily index after each filing day, typically well ahead of press coverage - which for most non-unicorn raises never comes at all.
Is this investment advice?
No. Data for research, screening and monitoring.
Use with AI agents and automation
This runs as an Apify Actor, so it drops into your stack with no scraping or glue code: - AI agents and LLMs: call it as a live tool from LangChain, LlamaIndex or Flowise, or over MCP - "who raised more than $10M this week?" becomes a one-tool agent query. - No-code automation: wire it to Zapier or Make (new $50M+ raise -> Slack, Google Sheets or CRM). - Webhooks and pipelines: fire a webhook on each run, or chain it into the Form 4 insider scanner and 13D/G activist monitor for the full private-to-public money-flow picture. - API and schedule: JSON output, on demand or on a daily schedule.