Data in this guide was pulled from the public sources on October 1–3, 2026.
Short answer: three free public sources cover most of what people pay funding databases for. SEC Form D filings catch private US raises, including many that never get a press release. TechCrunch covers the named, venture-backed rounds with investors and round type. The Y Combinator directory lists every YC company by batch. In the five business days from September 28 to October 2, 2026, the SEC received 295 Form D filings that passed our filter for pooled funds and real estate. This guide shows what each source tells you, how to read a Form D correctly, and how to pull all three into one structured feed.
One week of Form D filings, in numbers
We pulled every Form D filed between September 28 and October 2, 2026, with the tool’s filter for pooled investment funds and real estate switched on. These are 295 companies telling the SEC they are raising, or have raised, money privately.
| What we counted | Result |
|---|---|
| Form D filings (fund and real-estate filter on) | 295 |
| Filings per day | 38 (Mon) · 72 · 54 · 64 · 67 (Fri) |
| Median offering size (where a fixed amount was stated) | $3,000,000 |
| Offerings of $10M or more | 73 |
| Offerings of $100M or more | 16 |
| Already fully sold when filed | 79 |
| Nothing sold yet when filed | 45 |
| Offering amount left open (“indefinite”) | 40 |
| Median number of investors so far | 3 |
By industry, the largest group was “Other Technology” with 103 filings, followed by “Other” (72), Biotechnology (19), Other Health Care (18) and Oil and Gas (16). By state, California led with 51, then New York (42), Texas (28), Florida (22) and Colorado (13).
How to read a Form D without getting it wrong
A company that sells securities privately under Regulation D files a Form D with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale. It is a short notice, not a full disclosure, and three fields cause most of the mistakes:
- Total offering amount is a ceiling, not the round. It is the most the company may raise in this offering. The money actually raised so far is total amount sold.
- Neither number is a valuation. Form D does not report what the company is worth.
- “Related persons” are not investors. The form names executives, directors and promoters. It does not name the investors, only how many there are.
Two real filings from the week show the difference. Quartermaster AI, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) filed on September 29 with a total offering of $123,649,412, of which $122,649,481 was already sold to 17 investors; its first sale was September 14. CScale, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) filed on October 1 with a $194,999,885 offering, $144,999,891 sold to 37 investors, and about $50 million still open. Both numbers match the filings on EDGAR. Read only the offering amount and you would overstate CScale’s raise by $50 million.
A filing with nothing sold yet is a plan, not a closed round. In this week’s data, 45 of the 295 filings reported $0 sold. A filing where the amount sold equals the offering is usually a round that has already closed and is being reported after the fact.
What each public source is good for
| Source | What you get | What you don’t |
|---|---|---|
| SEC Form D (EDGAR) | Company, state, industry group, offering and sold amounts, investor count, filing date, link to the filing. Catches raises with no press coverage. | Investor names, valuation, round label (Seed/Series A). Up to 15 days of lag after the first sale. Companies that raise without Regulation D, or don’t file, are missing. |
| TechCrunch funding coverage | Round type, amount and usually lead investors, within a day of announcement. | Completeness. Only rounds that get written up appear, and figures come from the article headline, so always open the article. |
| Y Combinator directory | Every YC company by batch, with one-liner, industries, team size, hiring flag and location. | Round amounts. The directory says who is in a batch, not how much they raised. |
Real examples from the TechCrunch side on the same dates: Satlyt raised an $8M seed round to run AI on satellites (October 1), Crusoe raised $3.9B in a Series F (September 17), and Stoke Space raised a $1B Series E (September 8). These figures come from the articles, not from Form D, which is why using both sources together matters.
Pulling all three into one feed
The Startup Funding Tracker reads SEC Form D, TechCrunch and Y Combinator in one run and returns one row per round or company, tagged with its source. A 30-day run on October 1 returned 200 rows: 121 from Form D, 54 from TechCrunch and 25 YC companies. A typical input:
{
"mode": "all_sources",
"daysBack": 30,
"minAmount": 0,
"maxResults": 200
}If you only want SEC filings, with offering, sold and remaining amounts as separate fields, the SEC Form D Tracker returns Form D rows only. The one-week numbers above come from its October 3 run ("mode": "sec_edgar", "daysBack": 7). Here is one row exactly as delivered:
{
"companyName": "Quartermaster AI, Inc",
"filingDate": "2026-09-29",
"fundingAmount": "123649412",
"totalAmountSold": "122649481",
"totalRemaining": "999931",
"numberOfInvestors": "17",
"industry": "Other Technology",
"location": "Arlington, VIRGINIA",
"formType": "D",
"sourceUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2132947/000213294726000002/primary_doc.xml"
}In both tools, fundingAmount on a Form D row is the total offering amount. Use totalAmountSold for money actually raised.
Six workflows people build on this data
1. A daily new-raises list
Schedule the Form D run each weekday with daysBack: 1 or 2 and a minAmount that fits your market, then keep the rows where totalAmountSold is above zero. That gives you a short list of companies that have actually taken money in the last day or two.
2. A Crunchbase-style funding table from public data
Run all three sources for 30 days and stack them. Form D gives breadth, TechCrunch gives round labels and investors for the companies that announce, and YC adds the batch. Match on company name and domain to join a TechCrunch article to its Form D when both exist. Expect gaps: many Form D filers never get coverage, and some covered rounds never show up as a Form D.
3. Pre-seed sourcing before the announcement
New companies often show up in public records before they announce anything. A first Form D with a small offering and few investors is one signal. Delaware incorporation records are another: the Delaware Corporations Search returns file number, entity type, incorporation date and registered agent for a name. Cross-check against the YC directory to see whether a company is in a current batch.
4. From a raise to a company profile
Form D rows rarely include a website. Once you have found a domain, the Lead List Enricher pulls the public contact page details, social profiles and detected technologies for it. Sales teams use this to build a profile of a freshly funded company. Keep any outreach within the rules that apply to you, such as CAN-SPAM, CASL or GDPR.
5. Tracking a YC batch
The Y Combinator Directory Scraper takes batch codes (for example "batches": ["S23"]) and returns each company’s one-liner, industries, team size, location and whether it is hiring. Re-run it after Demo Day to see which companies changed status or started hiring, then look for their Form D filings over the following weeks.
6. Mapping a market
Combine the YC directory filtered by industry with 90 days of Form D filings in the matching industry group to see who is raising in a space and how much. For public companies in the same market, the SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper pulls their 10-K, 10-Q and other filings by ticker or name.
Doing it by hand instead
All of this is free to look at. On EDGAR, the full-text search and the “Latest Filings” view filtered to form type D show new filings, and each one opens as a short web page. TechCrunch’s venture section and the YC directory are public too. The tools above save the copying and give you the same fields every time, so the results can be stored and compared week to week.
This guide explains public filings and data sources. It is not investment advice or a recommendation about any company named.
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