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.
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.
73% of seed rounds never get press coverage at all. 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.
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.
Yes. Form D filings are submitted to SEC EDGAR and are public record immediately upon submission. Anyone can search EDGAR directly, but the raw data is unstructured and requires significant processing to use.
FlareSight lets you filter the database by location, sector, round type, and amount raised. Raw EDGAR searches do not support these filters in a usable way.
Sometimes. Investor names appear on Form D only when the offering has ten or fewer investors and the filer chooses to list them. For most institutional rounds, individual investors are not named.
FlareSight ingests new filings from EDGAR within hours of submission. The SEC processes filings on business days, so the typical lag from filing to our database is under 24 hours.
Form D does not include a company’s cap table, individual investor ownership percentages, or post-money valuation. It reports total offering size, not valuation.
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