SEC Form D search: 3 ways to look up and export Form D filings (free and automated)

If you want a list of US companies that just raised private money, the place to look is Form D. It's the short notice a company files with the SEC after it sells shares in a private round. It's public and free to read. The hard part is searching and exporting it. Here are three ways to do it, from free and manual to fully automated. Disclosure up front: we (SureSignal) built the tool in option 3. Options 1 and 2 are free and don't need us. Option 1: EDGAR search (free, best for a few lookups) Go to sec.gov/edgar/search. Under filing types, choose D (and D/A if you want amendments). Set a date range, and add a company name or keyword if you have one. Good for: checking one company, or reading a handful of recent filings. Not good for: "every operating company that raised money this week." You have to open each filing, tell real companies apart from investment funds and SPVs, and copy the amount sold, industry and state into a sheet by hand. Option 2: The SEC's

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 Oct 25, 2026
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SEC Form D search: 3 ways to look up and export Form D filings (free and automated)

If you want a list of US companies that just raised private money, the place to look is Form D. It's the short notice a company files with the SEC after it sells shares in a private round. It's public and free to read. The hard part is searching and exporting it.

Here are three ways to do it, from free and manual to fully automated. Disclosure up front: we (SureSignal) built the tool in option 3. Options 1 and 2 are free and don't need us.

Option 1: EDGAR search (free, best for a few lookups)

  1. Go to sec.gov/edgar/search.
  2. Under filing types, choose D (and D/A if you want amendments).
  3. Set a date range, and add a company name or keyword if you have one.

Good for: checking one company, or reading a handful of recent filings.
Not good for: "every operating company that raised money this week." You have to open each filing, tell real companies apart from investment funds and SPVs, and copy the amount sold, industry and state into a sheet by hand.

Option 2: The SEC's Form D data sets (free, best for history)

The SEC publishes Form D data sets: structured data taken from every Form D, as zipped files, updated quarterly. Search "SEC Form D data sets" or go to sec.gov's Data Library.

Good for: research and backfills (the files go back to 2009). You can load them into a spreadsheet, Python or a database.
Not good for: fresh leads. The newest filings arrive in the next quarterly drop, so a raise from last week usually isn't there yet. You also do the cleanup yourself: funds, SPVs and real-estate deals are mixed in with operating companies.

Option 3: A daily feed that exports only new filings (paid, best for sales lists)

The Recently Funded Startups — SEC Form D Leads & Executives tool on the Apify Store reads new filings from EDGAR, cleans them up and exports one row per raise.

What it handles for you:

  • Filters: state, industry, minimum amount sold, first-time filers only, companies founded in the last five years, or a keyword in the company name or filing text.
  • Cleanup: drops investment funds, SPVs and real-estate syndications by default.
  • Fields: company, amount sold, industry, state, named executives, company phone, website (best effort) and a link to the original SEC filing.
  • Memory: with "Only new" on, it remembers what it already sent you. Run it every morning and you only get (and only pay for) filings you haven't seen.

A typical input: 

{
  "daysBack": 7,
  "states": ["TX", "FL"],
  "industries": ["Technology"],
  "minAmountSold": 500000,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "monitorId": "tx-fl-tech",
  "maxItems": 100
}

A row looks like this (made-up example): 

{
  "companyName": "Example Analytics Inc.",
  "state": "TX",
  "totalAmountSold": 2500000,
  "isFirstTimeFiler": true,
  "website": "https://example-analytics.com",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/..."
}

Need history too? Set dateFrom and dateTo to backfill any period since 2001, then switch back to the daily schedule.

Cost: $0.03 per lead delivered, plus Apify's tiny run-start fee. 100 leads cost $3. maxItems caps every run, so a run can't cost more than you set.

Which one should you use?

  • Checking one company? EDGAR search.
  • Research across years? The SEC data sets.
  • A fresh list in your sheet or CRM every morning, with no repeats? Option 3.

Honest limits (all three options)

  • Form D covers US private offerings only.
  • It doesn't say the round stage (Seed, Series A) and doesn't name the investors.
  • Some raises never get a Form D, and some are filed late.
  • No email addresses. It gives names, titles and the company phone, not inboxes.

More detail on the daily setup: How to find recently funded startups every morning using SEC Form D filings.

Built on public SEC EDGAR data. Not affiliated with the SEC. Not investment advice.

Try it: Recently Funded Startups — SEC Form D Leads & Executives on the Apify Store. Built by SureSignal. You only pay for filings you haven't already received.

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