Funding Intent — Fresh Capital Raise Lead Scanner 💰

Find out which companies just filed to raise private capital — with a real name and title to contact — while the round is still open.

Searches this actor ranks for: startup funding tracker, SEC Form D scraper, funding intent leads, capital raise alerts, VC-backed company finder, B2B sales trigger events, fundraising lead generation.

Why a funding event is a buying signal

A company that just closed (or started) a capital raise has something every other lead doesn't: fresh, unallocated budget, and a founder/exec actively deciding where the first dollars go — tools, hires, vendors. Sales and BD teams have used "funding as a trigger" for years, but the standard tool (Crunchbase) is expensive, delayed by publisher editorial cycles, and its API sits behind an enterprise paywall.

Every US company raising via Reg D — the exemption behind the overwhelming majority of startup, real estate, and fund raises — must file a Form D with the SEC within 15 days of first sale. It's public, structured, free, and near real-time. This actor watches that feed directly.

Who uses this and for what

Persona	Use it to...
B2B sales / SDR teams	Trigger outreach the same week a prospect gets fresh budget, before the raise is old news
Recruiters / staffing agencies	Spot companies about to scale headcount off new capital
VC / PE associates	Track competing rounds and co-investor patterns in a sector in near real time
Journalists / newsletter writers	Source raises before they're aggregated by TechCrunch/press
Vendors selling to funded startups (payroll, benefits, cloud, legal)	Identify net-new accounts the moment they have money to spend

vs. the alternatives

	Funding Intent	Crunchbase	Manual SEC EDGAR browsing
Cost	Pay-per-result, no subscription	$$$ enterprise API tier for bulk/programmatic access	Free
Freshness	Near real-time (SEC filing feed)	Often delayed by editorial/manual entry	Real-time, but...
Named contact per lead	✅ Executive Officer name + title parsed from the filing	Sometimes	You'd have to open and read every XML by hand
Noise filtering	✅ VC/PE fund vehicles excluded by default (see below)	N/A	None — you'd wade through fund-of-fund filings yourself
Setup	Run it	Sales call + contract	Bookmark a government website

The noise nobody else mentions: fund vehicles are not leads

Testing this actor for real against live SEC data (2026-08-03) surfaced something worth knowing before you rely on Form D data from any source: a large share of Form D filings are VC/PE funds raising their own next fund from limited partners — not operating companies with a product and a budget. Left in, these dominate: the top of an unfiltered run showed $250-400M fund-of-fund raises ahead of every real operating company. This actor excludes filings whose industry group is Pooled Investment Fund or Investing by default (toggle exclude_investment_funds off if you specifically want fund-raise data instead of operating-company leads).

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
min_offering_amount	integer	500000	Ignore filings below this total offering amount
exclude_investment_funds	boolean	true	Drop VC/PE fund-vehicle filings (see above)
industries	array	(all)	Only keep filings matching these exact SEC industry groups
max_feed_pages	integer	5	How many 100-filing pages of the real-time feed to scan
max_results	integer	100	Cap on leads returned, largest raise first
request_timeout_secs	integer	30	HTTP request timeout

Output example

{
  "company_name": "Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.",
  "state": "CA",
  "industry_group": "Other Technology",
  "offering_size_bucket": "Mega ($25M+)",
  "total_offering_amount": 561339205.0,
  "total_amount_sold": 309648707.0,
  "pct_sold": 0.5516,
  "filed_date": "2026-07-31",
  "contact_name": "Eugene Berdichevsky",
  "contact_title": "Executive Officer",
  "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/..."
}

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No — SEC EDGAR is public, no auth, no key.

Is this legal / against any ToS? Yes it's fine — Form D filings are public government disclosures made specifically to inform the market, not scraped private data.

Why don't I see every funding round ever announced? This actor reads the regulatory filing feed, not press coverage — some raises (mostly outside Reg D, or non-US) won't appear here, and conversely you'll see many real raises before any press covers them at all.

What does pct_sold mean? How much of the declared offering amount has already been sold as of the filing date — a fresh raise at 0% sold means the round just opened.

Why exclude Pooled Investment Fund filings by default? See "The noise nobody else mentions" above — they're a fund raising from LPs, not an operating company with product budget.

Part of the 0xGollum signal suite

Stacks with Horse Racing Pulse, Unusual Options Activity and the rest of the portfolio — each actor turns one public, noisy, or hard-to-monitor data source into a single actionable signal instead of a data dump.