Every US company that raises equity funding files a Form D with the SEC. FlareSight ingests those filings within hours and turns them into actionable leads.
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When a US company raises equity or debt funding from investors, federal securities law requires them to file a Form D notice with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale. The filing is submitted to EDGAR, the SEC's public database, and becomes immediately accessible to anyone.
Each Form D discloses the company name, principal office address, industry classification, total amount raised, round type (equity, convertible, debt), and the names and titles of the executives who signed the filing. When investors are named in the offering, those names appear too.
The filing happens before any press release, before the founders post on LinkedIn, and before any journalist writes about it. That timing is the opportunity. It is also why FlareSight is used as a Crunchbase alternative for sales teams that need primary-source data, not aggregated press coverage.
Press coverage of a funding round typically appears 4 to 6 weeks after the round closes. By then, every SDR at every competitor has already reached out. The window for a warm, timely introduction is gone.
~90% of seed rounds never get top-tier press coverage. If you rely on TechCrunch or LinkedIn announcements as your signal, you are systematically blind to the majority of the market.
Form D is the only source that is comprehensive, legally required, and consistently filed within 15 days. It covers every round, not just the ones companies choose to announce. The startup funding database built on Form D data is the closest thing to a complete picture of early-stage US fundraising.
We pull every new Form D filing from SEC EDGAR within hours of submission, across all industries and round sizes. A raw filing is just a PDF. We parse it, normalize it, and enrich it.
Each company is classified into a sector, matched against web traffic signals, and cross-referenced with prior filings for funding history. Where contact information is available, we surface it alongside the filing data.
The result: you get an alert the day the money closes, with enough context to understand the company before you reach out. Not the day someone decides to write about it.
Say you sell infrastructure software and want to find all NYC-area AI startups that raised $5M or more in the last 90 days. On EDGAR, that query does not exist in one step. You open the full-text search, enter search terms, get back a paginated list of raw filings, click into each XML document, read the industry classification field manually, note the state code, and check the offering amount. Each filing takes 2 to 4 minutes to triage. Filtering to a single city is not supported natively. Exporting results requires copying fields by hand.
On FlareSight, you set four filters: location (New York), sector (AI/ML), minimum offering amount ($5M), date range (last 90 days). The results are a ranked list of companies with name, amount, date, and sector already parsed. You can read down the list, click into any company, and see enriched context without leaving the interface. The same query that takes 20 minutes on EDGAR takes under a minute here.
For sales prospecting use cases, read more on how to use SEC Form D for sales prospecting.
These are real Form D filings from SEC EDGAR. Each was available in the FlareSight database within hours of submission, before any press coverage ran.
Filing dates and amounts sourced from SEC EDGAR public records. Amounts reflect the offering size reported at the time of filing, not final round totals.
Form D is a notice of exempt offering filed with the SEC under Regulation D. Any US company that raises capital from investors without registering the securities must file Form D within 15 days of the first sale. It discloses the company name, location, amount raised, round type, and the executives who signed.
Any US company raising equity or debt from investors under a Reg D exemption must file. This covers the vast majority of venture-backed and angel-backed startups. Public companies and companies raising under other exemptions (such as Regulation A) are not required to use Form D.
Within 15 calendar days of the first sale of securities in the offering. Companies that miss the deadline may still file late. Amendments are filed when material terms change or when a subsequent closing occurs.
Yes. All Form D filings are public record on SEC EDGAR immediately upon acceptance. Anyone can access them at no cost. The limitation is that EDGAR provides raw XML files with no filtering by sector, amount, geography, or date range in a single query.
You can, but it is laborious. EDGAR full-text search returns unstructured results and does not let you filter by city, sector, or offering amount simultaneously. Each result links to a raw XML document. There is no way to export a list of, say, all SaaS companies in Texas that raised over $2M in the last 60 days in one step.
FlareSight parses every new filing within hours, normalizes the data, classifies companies by sector, and surfaces them in a searchable, filterable interface. You run one query with combined filters. EDGAR requires multiple steps, manual review, and no cross-field filtering. For sales and research use cases, the difference is roughly 20 seconds vs. 20 minutes per company.
By law, within 15 days of the first closing. In practice, many filings arrive within a week. This means the filing appears on EDGAR weeks or months before any press coverage, LinkedIn announcement, or Crunchbase entry.
Form D is a legal filing required by the SEC. A press release is optional and written by the company. Most seed and Series A rounds are never covered by press at all. Form D is the only source that captures every US funding event, not just the ones companies choose to publicize.
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