# SEC Form D Startup Funding Leads (`cherubic_snipefish/sec-form-d-startup-leads`) Actor

Find fresh startup fundraising leads from official SEC Form D filings with issuer details, industry, location, offering size, amount sold, phone, filing URL, and lead score.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/cherubic\_snipefish/sec-form-d-startup-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Deva](https://apify.com/cherubic_snipefish) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $30.00 / 1,000 qualified startup fundraising leads

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## SEC Form D Startup Funding Leads

Find newly fundraising U.S. private companies from official SEC Form D filings. This Actor turns raw EDGAR Form D and D/A notices into a clean B2B lead dataset with issuer details, offering size, location, industry, filing URL, and a lead score.

Use it for startup sales prospecting, recruiting, agency outreach, market intelligence, venture research, and private-company monitoring.

### What it does

- Monitors the SEC EDGAR current Form D feed.
- Opens each filing's official `primary_doc.xml` source.
- Extracts issuer, CIK, entity type, industry, city, state, phone, offering amount, amount sold, minimum investment, and filing URL.
- Filters out funds, SPVs, and pooled investment vehicles by default so the output is more useful for operating-company lead generation.
- Scores each lead from 0 to 100 using offering size, industry, company type, and startup geography.
- Produces a clean Apify dataset ready for CSV, JSON, API, Google Sheets, n8n, Zapier, HubSpot, Salesforce, or your own CRM pipeline.

### Best use cases

- **B2B sales teams:** discover companies that recently started raising capital.
- **Recruiting agencies:** find private companies likely to hire after funding activity.
- **Founder-service agencies:** monitor startup financing signals for outreach.
- **Market intelligence teams:** track private offering activity by state, industry, or keyword.
- **Data vendors:** enrich official Form D data into lead products and alerts.

### Example input

```json
{
  "maxItems": 25,
  "daysBack": 14,
  "includeFunds": false,
  "minOfferingAmount": 1000000,
  "states": ["CA", "NY", "TX"],
  "keywords": ["biotechnology", "software", "AI"]
}
```

### Input options

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---:|---|
| `maxItems` | integer | Maximum qualified filings to return, 1 to 200. |
| `daysBack` | integer | Only include filings published within this many days. |
| `minOfferingAmount` | integer | Optional minimum disclosed offering amount in USD. |
| `includeFunds` | boolean | Include pooled investment funds and SPVs. Default is false. |
| `states` | string array | Optional U.S. state filters, such as `CA`, `NY`, `TX`. |
| `keywords` | string array | Optional keyword filters across issuer name, industry, entity type, city, and state. |

### Output fields

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `issuerName` | Company or issuer name from the filing. |
| `cik` | SEC Central Index Key. |
| `filedAt` | SEC feed timestamp. |
| `industryGroup` | SEC industry group. |
| `entityType` | Corporation, LLC, limited partnership, etc. |
| `city`, `state`, `stateDescription` | Issuer location. |
| `phone` | Issuer phone number when disclosed. |
| `offeringAmountUsd` | Total offering amount when disclosed. |
| `amountSoldUsd` | Amount already sold when disclosed. |
| `minimumInvestmentUsd` | Minimum investment accepted when disclosed. |
| `leadScore` | 0 to 100 lead score for sales prioritization. |
| `leadReason` | Human-readable reasons behind the score. |
| `filingUrl` | Official SEC filing index URL. |
| `source` | Data source label. |

### Example output

```json
{
  "issuerName": "Myrtelle Inc.",
  "cik": "0001868532",
  "filedAt": "2026-07-02T16:59:08-04:00",
  "industryGroup": "Biotechnology",
  "entityType": "Corporation",
  "city": "NEW YORK",
  "state": "NY",
  "phone": "(781) 621-2381",
  "offeringAmountUsd": 30000000,
  "amountSoldUsd": 16700000,
  "minimumInvestmentUsd": 25000,
  "leadScore": 95,
  "leadReason": "large offering; high-value startup industry; operating-company entity type; active startup geography",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/...",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR Form D current filings feed"
}
```

### Dataset preview

| leadScore | issuerName | industryGroup | state | offeringAmountUsd | amountSoldUsd | use case |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|---:|---|
| 95 | Myrtelle Inc. | Biotechnology | NY | 30000000 | 16700000 | venture, recruiting, founder services |
| 89 | Cognos Therapeutics Inc | Biotechnology | CA | 2000000 | 250000 | biotech sales and recruiting |
| 63 | Springboard Management Aggregator, LLC | Other | CA | 0 | 0 | manual review lead |

### Why this is better than raw EDGAR search

EDGAR gives you filings. This Actor gives you a lead workflow:

- filters noisy fund/SPV filings,
- extracts structured fields,
- adds sales prioritization,
- produces export-ready data,
- works well on schedules and webhooks,
- uses official SEC XML instead of fragile browser scraping.

### Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

- **Actor start:** small fixed fee per run.
- **Qualified lead:** charged only when a qualified lead is written to the dataset.

This keeps small tests inexpensive while aligning cost with the number of useful leads returned.

### Scheduling ideas

Run it daily with:

```json
{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "daysBack": 2,
  "includeFunds": false
}
```

Then connect the dataset or webhook to Slack, Discord, Google Sheets, Airtable, HubSpot, Salesforce, or a lead enrichment pipeline.

### Data source and compliance

- Source: official public SEC EDGAR Form D filings.
- This Actor sends a descriptive User-Agent and uses lightweight HTTP requests.
- No login, cookies, proxies, browser automation, or CAPTCHA solving are required.
- SEC filings may contain incomplete, amended, or issuer-submitted information. Verify important leads before outreach or investment decisions.

### Limitations

- Form D filings do not always include a website, founder names, or emails.
- Some filings are funds, SPVs, or investment vehicles. The default filter removes obvious cases but cannot perfectly classify every issuer.
- Offering amount and amount sold can be missing, zero, or marked as indefinite depending on the filing.

### Roadmap

- Stateful daily monitoring with duplicate suppression.
- Optional domain/company enrichment.
- CRM-ready output presets.
- Webhook templates for Slack and Discord alerts.
- Stronger operating-company versus fund classification.

### Local development

```bash
npm install
npm test
APIFY_CLI_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 apify run -i '{"maxItems":5,"includeFunds":false}'
```

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of recent Form D filings to inspect.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

Only include filings published within this many days.

## `minOfferingAmount` (type: `integer`):

Filter out offerings below this amount when amount is disclosed.

## `includeFunds` (type: `boolean`):

If false, down-filters obvious funds and pooled investment vehicles to focus on operating-company leads.

## `states` (type: `array`):

Optional state filter, e.g. CA, NY. Leave empty for all.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Optional case-insensitive keywords to match issuer name, industry, or filing summary.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "daysBack": 14,
  "minOfferingAmount": 0,
  "includeFunds": false,
  "states": [],
  "keywords": []
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("cherubic_snipefish/sec-form-d-startup-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("cherubic_snipefish/sec-form-d-startup-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call cherubic_snipefish/sec-form-d-startup-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=cherubic_snipefish/sec-form-d-startup-leads",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rXK37eGEOIjTJwh0l/builds/bFP0C8DBLiX9RaNMO/openapi.json