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370 US companies declared $10.6 billion of private fundraising in one week, and 179 of them were incorporated this year - what SEC Form D filings look like as data

Every time a US company raises money without a public offering, it files a short notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission: Form D, due within 15 days of the first sale. Seed rounds, Series A, convertible notes, real-estate syndications, and also the funds that raise the money in the first place. EDGAR publishes every notice the same day, as an XML document, in the public domain. On 8 November 2026 I read the five daily indexes of the week of 2–6 November with the new US Startup Funding Actor, and this is what a week of American private fundraising looks like when nobody has curated it.

1,321 notices, 844 new, 370 operating companies

More than half of all new Form D notices are filed by venture, private-equity and hedge funds raising their own capital. That is the first thing to decide when you build anything on this data: a “startup funding” feed that keeps the funds is mostly a list of funds. The Actor drops them unless you ask for them.

By day: Monday 77, Tuesday 61, Wednesday 68, Thursday 62, Friday 102. Friday is the day companies catch up with the 15-day deadline.

$10.6 billion, median $581,600

The total is dominated by a handful of very large private placements (two related filings alone account for $3.8 billion); the median is the number that describes the week. Equity was offered in 272 of the 370 filings (74%), debt in 48, options or warrants in 48.

Where and in what

By city: New York 22, Denver 11, Houston 11, Los Angeles 10, San Francisco 10, San Diego 8, Dallas 7, Austin 7. Texas is the second state, and Houston files as many rounds as Los Angeles.

Real estate files as many notices as technology: syndications of a building or a portfolio go through the same form as a software seed round. Health-care rounds are the smallest at the median, because biotech companies file early and often.

Young companies, small groups of investors

Half of the week’s filers did not exist a year ago. Three investors at the median means these are not crowdfunding rounds: a lead, a follower and a founder’s relative is the typical cap table at this stage.

What the form says about timing

The notice is due 15 days after the first sale. Among the 300 filings that reported a first-sale date, the median gap to the filing was exactly 15 days and 165 were within the deadline; 70 filings were made before any sale. So a Form D feed is about two weeks behind the money, which is still weeks ahead of a press release, and months ahead of the databases that compile press releases.

What is not in the data

No valuation, no investor names, no round label (“Series A” is a market convention, not a field). Revenue is declared in ranges, and 274 of the 370 companies decline to disclose it. Officers and directors are named on the form; the Actor counts them by role and never returns the names. And a company that raises under a different exemption, or simply files late, is not there until it files.

Reproduce it

The week, operating companies only:

{ "dateFrom": "2026-11-02", "dateTo": "2026-11-06", "maxItems": 3000 }

Technology and health-care companies that sold at least $1 million of equity in the last 7 days:

{ "daysBack": 7, "industries": ["Technology", "Health Care"], "securityTypes": ["equity"], "minAmountSold": 1000000 }

$4 per 1,000 filings, the first 20 of every run free, one free summary row with the totals by state, industry and day. Every row links to the filing on EDGAR.

Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR daily indexes and Form D documents of 2–6 November 2026, read on 8 November 2026. Public domain. Counts are of new notices (Form D) by issuers that are not pooled investment funds; amendments (Form D/A) are excluded. Amounts are as declared by the issuers.