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Form D Funding Signals

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Know within two days when a company files a Form D for a private securities offering, most often a funding round.

33 hmedian time from filing to the API

4.8K records on 1.4K companies in the last 28 days

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SEC Form D filings reveal funding rounds 7-14 days before press releases. Be the first vendor in the door, before the inbox floods with congratulations emails.

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Filings tracked daily
100+
Lead time vs. press
7-14 days
Update frequency
Daily
Offering types
VC, PE, Debt, Other
Delivery
REST API, GCS Push, Generate Insights API, Flat File
Format
JSONL or Parquet
Bucket
gs://autobound-sec-form-d-funding/

What Are Form D Funding Signals?

4 subtypes

When a company raises a venture capital or private equity round in the United States, they're legally required to file a Form D with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale of securities. This creates a public record of the funding event that typically appears 7-14 days before any press release or TechCrunch announcement.

Autobound monitors SEC EDGAR for Form D filings daily and matches them to companies in its database. Each signal includes the offering amount, equity type (venture capital, debt, other), number of investors, date of first sale, and the total amount sold to date. This is a legally disclosed, highly accurate funding signal, not an estimate or rumor.

The competitive advantage is significant. Most sales teams react to funding when they see the press release or LinkedIn post, at that point, the company has been fielding congratulations and inbound for days. Form D signals get you in front of newly funded companies before the noise begins, when the budget allocation conversations are freshest and the team is most receptive to new vendor conversations.

Form D funding signals are most powerful when combined with hiring signals. A company that files a Form D and immediately posts 15 new job openings is deploying capital into headcount, that's a strong buying signal for tooling and infrastructure vendors who sell seat-based or usage-based products.

Example subtypes

New Form D filing (fund)Form D amendment (fund)

New Form D filingnewFilingCompany

From a real record

Superhumansuperhuman.comSep 25, 2026

Superhuman Platform Inc. filed a Form D with the SEC, reporting $91.6M sold, of a $91.6M offering.

Person
Oleksiy Shevchenko, Director
Filer
Superhuman Platform Inc.
Amount
$91.6M
Investors
436
Round
Form D offering
Source type
SEC Form D filing

Source: sec.gov

From a Form D filing to your next move

What we detect, what you get, and what you do with it. Pick the path that fits your team.

Sales, marketing and RevOps: Slack, CRM fields and plays.

  1. 0103

    Funding rounds show up at the SEC

    Companies must file a Form D after a private raise. We read each filing and match it to the company, often before the press release.

    1. SEC EDGAR
    SEC EDGARApr 7, 2026

    Form D filed by Vanta Inc

    Offering size
    $150M
    Investors
    12
    Filed
    Apr 7, 2026
    Extracted
    Vanta Incvanta.comcompanyNew Form D filingsignal_subtype

  2. 0203

    You get one clean record

    Each record names the company and its domain, labels what happened, and links back to the source.

    2. Signal record

    Vanta Inc

    vanta.comSoftware Development

    New Form D filingnewFilingCompany

    Vanta filed Form D for a $150M Series C raise, signals major expansion of their automated compliance platform into enterprise and international markets...

    Offering
    $150M
    Filed
    Apr 7, 2026
    Detected
    Apr 8, 2026
    Source
    sec.gov

    signal_id fd-00019…

  3. 0303

    Act on it where you work

    Send it to Slack, write it to your CRM, or give it to an AI agent.

    When
    newFilingCompany with total_amount_sold ≥ $5M
    Do
    Post-raise outreach before the press release
    3. Your team acts
    or your own code
    #account-signals

    Signal alert from your workflow

    Vanta Inc· New Form D filing

    Vanta filed Form D for a $150M Series C raise, signals major expansion of their automated compliance platform into enterprise and international markets...

    Play: Post-raise outreach before the press release

    Start the playOpen the source

    Illustration. The record fields are real.

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How we build this signal

How we build each Form D signal

Twice a day we read new Form D filings straight from SEC EDGAR and turn each one into a company record.

  1. 01

    Collection

    Two runs a day (08:00 and 20:00 UTC) search SEC EDGAR for new Form D filings and amendments (Form D/A).

  2. 02

    Parsing

    We parse the filing's own XML: offering amount, amount sold, investor count, industry group, securities types, exemptions and the people named in it. An amendment is marked as an amendment, not a new raise.

  3. 03

    Company resolution

    Private filers rarely list a website, so we resolve the domain in steps: a knowledge-graph lookup, then candidate domains checked against each site's page title. A blocklist of generic first words stops "Alpha Core Fund" from matching alpha.com.

  4. 04

    Enrichment and delivery

    A model writes the summary from the parsed fields, and the output is validated before use. Each signal ID comes from the SEC accession number, so one filing is one record.

Form D Signal Schema

Each Form D signal includes the full SEC filing metadata, offering details, and company resolution.

Request, response and price →Free list built from this feed →
{
  "signal_id": "fd-0001958004-26-003421",
  "batch_id": "2026-04-08-00-00-00",
  "signal_type": "sec-form-d-funding",
  "signal_subtype": "newFilingCompany",
  "detected_at": "2026-04-08T14:00:00.000Z",
  "association": "company",
  "company": {
    "name": "Vanta Inc",
    "domain": "vanta.com",  // match on domain
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/company/vanta-inc",  // or match on LinkedIn URL
    "industries": ["Software Development", "Computer & Network Security"],
    "employee_count_low": 501,
    "employee_count_high": 1000,
    "description": "Automated security and compliance platform..."
  },
  "contact": [],
  "data": {
    "accession_number": "0001958004-26-003421",
    "cik": "0001958004",
    "entity_name": "Vanta Inc",
    "form_type": "D",
    "file_date": "2026-04-07",
    "sic_code": "7372",
    "sic_description": "Prepackaged Software",
    "business_location": "San Francisco, CA",
    "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1958004/000195800426003421/",
    "summary": "Vanta filed Form D for a $150M Series C raise, signals major expansion of their automated compliance platform into enterprise and international markets...",
    "relevance": 0.95,
    "confidence": "high",
    "sentiment": "positive",
    "topics": ["security-compliance", "series-c", "enterprise-saas", "automation", "growth-stage"],
    "outreach_hooks": [
      "Congrats on the raise, companies at your stage typically need to 3x pipeline generation. We help with that.",
      "Noticed Vanta just filed for Series C. Growing from 500 to 1000 people fast? Our platform scales with you."
    ],
    "total_offering_amount": 150000000,
    "total_amount_sold": 150000000,
    "securities_types": ["Equity"],
    "total_investors": 12,
    "revenue_range": "$25M-$100M",
    "related_persons": [
      { "name": "Christina Cacioppo", "roles": ["Executive Officer", "Director"] },
      { "name": "Sequoia Capital", "roles": ["Promoter"] }
    ]
  }
}

Bulk data

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Measured coverage

What's inside Form D Funding Signals

A dated snapshot counted in our production database, not a live count. Minimums, not ceilings.

Coverage for all 35 signal types →
450
Companies with fresh data per month
Published baseline, records through Jul 24, 2026
1,880
Records created per month
3-month average, records through Jul 24, 2026

Geography

all 41 countries →
🇺🇸United States402 · 23%
🇬🇧United Kingdom38 · 2.2%
🇨🇦Canada27 · 1.6%
🇮🇳India10 · 0.6%
🇸🇬Singapore8 · 0.5%
🇩🇪Germany6 · 0.3%
🇫🇷France6 · 0.3%
CA 173NY 155TX 49MA 39FL 35IL 35

Top industries

all industries →
Financial Services192 · 11%
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals61 · 3.5%
Investment Management60 · 3.5%
Leasing Real Estate55 · 3.2%
Software Development39 · 2.3%
IT Services and IT Consulting26 · 1.5%
Advertising Services19 · 1.1%

Join keys

fill rate
Domain35%
LinkedIn URL0%
Company name100%
Records measured 7,851+Companies reached 1,730+

Company pages

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See for yourself

Check out sample data: real Form D Funding records with the same fields the API returns.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a Form D?
Form D is a notice filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by companies that have sold securities without registering them under the Securities Act of 1933, using an exemption for small offerings or private placements. It's the standard filing mechanism for startup funding rounds.
How much lead time do Form D signals provide vs. press releases?
On average, Form D filings appear 7-14 days before press releases or public announcements. Some companies file within days of closing; others wait the full 15-day window. Either way, you're getting the signal before TechCrunch does.
Do Form D filings include the investors?
Form D filings include the number of investors but not their names. Investor identity is not publicly disclosed in Form D. However, lead investors are often identifiable through board change filings and prior public disclosures.