# Funded Startup Tracker � TechCrunch + SEC EDGAR Fusion (`george.the.developer/funded-startup-tracker`) Actor

Recent funding events from TechCrunch and SEC EDGAR with parsed amount, round, investors. Founders, hiring signals, cross-referenced sources. Pay per result, no monthly seats.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/george.the.developer/funded-startup-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [George Kioko](https://apify.com/george.the.developer) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 10 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event + usage

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Funded Startup Tracker — TechCrunch + SEC EDGAR Funding Data

Recent funding events from TechCrunch and SEC EDGAR Form D filings, parsed into structured records with amount, round, investors, founders, and hiring signals. Pay per result. Built for SDR teams selling into newly funded startups.

[![Funded Startup Tracker on Apify](https://img.shields.io/badge/Apify-Funded%20Startup%20Tracker-1f8f4d)](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/funded-startup-tracker)
[![Pricing](https://img.shields.io/badge/Pricing-%240.04%20event%20%2F%20%240.10%20enriched-blue)](#pricing)

### Why this exists

Crunchbase Pro is $99/mo per seat. A 5-person SDR team is $495/mo before they pull a single record. Tracxn is enterprise-only. Growth List sells one-time CSV dumps. TechCrunch and SEC EDGAR are public, but nobody ties the funding announcement to a parsed amount, round letter, lead investor, careers page, and EDGAR Form D in one call.

This actor does that. One request returns a structured record. You pay $0.04 for a feed event, $0.10 for a fully-enriched company.

### How It Works

```
                    ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                    │      Funded Startup Tracker API             │
                    └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                    ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                    │  Source 1: TECHCRUNCH                       │
                    │  RSS feeds: /category/venture/feed/         │
                    │             /category/fundraising/feed/     │
                    │  Article body parsing for amount + round    │
                    │  + investors via funding-NLP regex          │
                    └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                    ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                    │  Source 2: SEC EDGAR                        │
                    │  efts.sec.gov full-text search Form D       │
                    │  US private placement disclosures           │
                    │  Cross-referenced by company name + date    │
                    └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                    ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                    │  Step 3: PARSING + DEDUPE                   │
                    │  Headline regex: "X raises $Y Series Z"     │
                    │  HTML entity decoder for numeric refs       │
                    │  Investor list parsing: "led by X"          │
                    └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                    ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                    │  Step 4: ENRICHMENT (+ $0.06 over base)     │
                    │  Cross-ref EDGAR Form D filings             │
                    │  Careers-page detection                     │
                    │  Founder name extraction                    │
                    │  Industry / vertical tagging                │
                    └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                    ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                    │  Output: structured JSON per startup        │
                    └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

### Endpoints

| Method | Path | Purpose | Charge |
|--------|------|---------|--------|
| `GET` | `/` | Service info | none |
| `GET` | `/health` | Health probe | none |
| `GET` | `/recent?days=30&min_amount=1000000&stage=seriesA&limit=50` | Recent funding events from TC venture + fundraising RSS | $0.04 / event |
| `GET` | `/enrich?company=stripe.com&days=365` | Single-company enrichment (funding history + EDGAR cross-ref + careers signals) | $0.10 / record |
| `POST` | `/enrich/bulk` | Up to 25 companies in one call | $0.10 / record |

### Quick start

```bash
TOKEN="<your-apify-token>"
BASE="https://george-the-developer--funded-startup-tracker.apify.actor/"

## Last 30 days of Series A rounds
curl "$BASE/recent?days=30&stage=seriesA&limit=20" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

## Enrich one specific company
curl "$BASE/enrich?company=stripe.com&days=365" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
```

### Sample response (enriched)

```json
{
  "company": "Corgi",
  "domain": "corgi.com",
  "funding": {
    "latest_round": "Series A",
    "amount_usd": 160000000,
    "announced_at": "2026-04-22",
    "lead_investor": "TCV",
    "all_investors": ["TCV", "Bessemer Venture Partners"],
    "total_raised_usd": 200000000,
    "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/corgi-raises-160m/",
    "source_type": "techcrunch"
  },
  "company_data": {
    "industry": "Insurance technology",
    "headcount_est": "51-200",
    "hq_location": "New York, NY",
    "founded_year": 2023,
    "website": "https://corgi.com/"
  },
  "founders": [
    { "name": "Cole Riccardi", "title": "CEO", "linkedin_url": null }
  ],
  "hiring_signals": {
    "open_roles_count": 7,
    "careers_page_url": "https://corgi.com/careers"
  },
  "edgar_filings": [
    { "form": "D", "filed_at": "2026-04-19", "offering_amount_usd": 160000000 }
  ]
}
```

### Pricing

| Event | Price | What it covers |
|-------|-------|----------------|
| `funding-event` | $0.04 | One funded startup record from TechCrunch or EDGAR with parsed amount, round, investors |
| `startup-enriched` | $0.10 | Funded company with founders, hiring signals, and EDGAR cross-references |

Apify free tier covers around $5/mo out of the gate. No subscription, no minimum, no seat license.

### Use cases

1. **B2B SaaS SDRs** at tools targeting funded startups (Brex, Mercury, Ramp, Vanta, Carta, Modern Treasury).
2. **VC scouts** mapping recent deals by stage and vertical.
3. **Recruiting agencies** hunting talent at hot startups post-funding.
4. **M\&A advisors** building lists of recently capitalized targets.
5. **BD at infra companies** (AWS Activate, GCP Startup, Stripe Atlas) qualifying programs by funding signal.

### Data sources (v1)

- **TechCrunch** — RSS feeds (open, no auth, no Cloudflare on RSS), article body parsed via funding-NLP regex
- **SEC EDGAR** — `efts.sec.gov` full-text search for Form D filings (US private placement disclosures, fully public)
- **Wellfound** — deferred to v2 (Datadome anti-bot, requires Go TLS bypass)

### Honest tradeoffs

- Cold-start latency on first call after idle (10-30s while Apify wakes the Standby actor)
- TechCrunch funding-NLP regex catches most explicit announcements; press-release wires (PRN, Business Wire) deferred to v2
- EDGAR Form D filings are US-only and lag the announcement by 15 days post-closing
- Founder LinkedIn URL extraction is best-effort; v2 adds Wellfound team-page enrichment

### Docs and examples

Full curl, Node, and Python examples at [github.com/the-ai-entrepreneur-ai-hub/funded-startup-tracker-docs](https://github.com/the-ai-entrepreneur-ai-hub/funded-startup-tracker-docs).

### More from this developer

Other lead-gen actors built for the same value-driven, pay-per-result model:

- **[ATS Hire-Trigger Intent Scraper](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/ats-hire-trigger-intent-scraper)** — Greenhouse + Lever + Ashby + SmartRecruiters jobs in one API. Pairs with this actor: see what funded startups are hiring next, intent-enriched.
- **[Shopify DTC Brand Discovery](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/shopify-dtc-brand-discovery)** — Shopify stores by niche with tech-stack detection. $0.02 / $0.05 per store. For DTC-vertical funded brands.
- **[Email Validator API](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/email-validator-api)** — SMTP probe, MX record check, disposable detection. $0.002 per email. Pairs for verifying founder emails attached to funding events.
- **[Company Enrichment API](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/company-enrichment-api)** — Domain to company intel (employee count, industry, tech stack). $0.01 per company. Pairs with funding data for full target profiling.

Full portfolio: [apify.com/george.the.developer](https://apify.com/george.the.developer).

### License

MIT.

# Actor input Schema

## `company` (type: `string`):

Single company to enrich (e.g. 'stripe.com' or 'Stripe'). Returns funding history + founders + hiring signals.

## `days` (type: `integer`):

Only return funding events from the last N days (1-365)

## `min_amount` (type: `integer`):

Filter to rounds at or above this amount (in USD)

## `country` (type: `string`):

Optional country filter (US, UK, CA, etc.). Best-effort match against EDGAR + TechCrunch.

## `stage` (type: `string`):

Funding stage filter: seed, seriesA, seriesB, seriesC, growth, any

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of records to return (1-200)

## `enrichment` (type: `string`):

'basic' returns funding event only, 'full' adds founders, hiring signals, cross-referenced sources

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Optional: array of company domains to enrich in bulk (max 25)

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "days": 30,
  "min_amount": 1000000,
  "country": "US",
  "stage": "any",
  "limit": 50,
  "enrichment": "full"
}
```

# 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("george.the.developer/funded-startup-tracker").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("george.the.developer/funded-startup-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).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 george.the.developer/funded-startup-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,george.the.developer/funded-startup-tracker"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/XFdOy6H2wKVt92tjb/builds/aKJTvtlH8eM2D9ZWr/openapi.json