Tracking new funding rounds — who raised, how much, from whom — means watching SEC Form D filings, TechCrunch, and YC announcements separately, then reconciling them by hand. For deal sourcing or sales prospecting into freshly funded companies, you want one structured feed.
This guide shows how to pull recent funding activity as JSON from multiple sources at once.
Who uses funding data
Fresh funding activity is one of the strongest buying and sourcing indicators in business. Sales teams sell into newly funded companies because a raise means budget and a mandate to grow. Venture and growth investors track rounds to source deals and benchmark valuations and investor activity. Recruiters target funded startups that are about to scale headcount. And analysts and journalists map where capital is flowing by sector and stage.
What the data looks like
One record per funding event, normalized across sources:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| companyName | the funded company |
| fundingAmount | round size (from SEC Form D where disclosed) |
| roundType | seed / Series A / etc. |
| investors | participating investors |
| filingDate | filing or announcement date |
| industry / location | sector and geography |
| source | sec_edgar / techcrunch / yc_startups |
How to get it
Run the Startup Funding Tracker on Apify. Choose a source (or all), a lookback window, and a minimum amount; it returns normalized rounds as JSON, CSV, or Excel, priced per result.
Run it on a schedule
{
"mode": "all_sources",
"daysBack": 30,
"minAmount": 1000000,
"maxResults": 100
}Prefer it delivered for you?
If you want a curated private-capital feed on a schedule without running anything, the Form D / Private Capital Monitor data pack delivers new Form D raises as clean CSV/JSON — grab the free sample on that page.
Common workflows
The usual jobs are: a weekly pull of all rounds above a threshold in a target sector; a source-specific feed (SEC Form D only, for verified filings with disclosed amounts); a watch on a set of investors to see what they are backing; and enrichment of a CRM with newly funded accounts and their investors. Because the output is normalized JSON or CSV across sources, it drops straight into a pipeline, a spreadsheet, or an alerting step.
Why one normalized feed matters
Funding news is fragmented: SEC Form D carries verified offering amounts but terse company detail; TechCrunch and YC add narrative and context but rarely a precise figure. Watching them separately means reconciling three formats by hand. A single normalized feed lets you compare rounds on the same fields regardless of where each was reported, so a sector view or an investor view is one query rather than three.
Understanding the sources
SEC EDGAR (Form D) is the authoritative record for U.S. private offerings and is where disclosed amounts come from. TechCrunch surfaces rounds that make the news, useful for context and for deals not yet in EDGAR. YC coverage highlights early-stage activity in that ecosystem. Choosing a mode lets you trade completeness for depth depending on the task.
Cost and control
Pricing is per result with no subscription, and the Actor defaults to a small batch so you can validate the fields cheaply before scaling. A focused sector pull costs a few dollars; you set the lookback window, minimum amount, and source, so both cost and noise stay under your control.
FAQ
Where does the funding amount come from? From SEC Form D filings, where the offering amount is disclosed; press-sourced rows may not carry an exact figure.
Can I filter by round size or sector? Yes — set a minimum amount and filter by industry downstream.
How current is it? It reads the latest filings and announcements at run time; schedule it for a rolling deal feed.
Which mode should I use for verified amounts? Use the SEC EDGAR source — Form D discloses the offering amount, while press-sourced rows may not carry an exact figure.
Can I focus on one sector or stage? Yes — set a minimum amount and lookback, and filter by industry or round type downstream.
One more practical benefit: because the feed is normalized, it is straightforward to deduplicate the same round reported in two places — an EDGAR filing and a TechCrunch article about the same company — so your list reflects distinct events rather than double counts.
Teams that run this weekly typically build a simple pipeline: pull new rounds, match against existing CRM accounts, and route genuinely new funded companies to the right owner. Over a quarter, that produces both a live prospect list and a dataset you can analyse for where capital is concentrating by stage and sector.
The result is a repeatable deal- and prospect-sourcing routine: fresh, verified where possible, deduplicated, and ready to route — built entirely from public filings and announcements.
Factual public data — not financial or investment advice.
Related: SEC Form ADV Adviser Tracker and the Form D / Private Capital pack.
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