A short notice that a company files with the US Securities and Exchange Commission after it sells securities in a private offering that is exempt from registration under Regulation D. It is due within 15 days of the first sale.

Does a Form D mean a company closed a venture round?

Not always. It reports an offering and how much has been sold so far. That can be equity from venture investors, but also convertible notes, debt, or money from friends and family.

How current is the list?

The SEC publishes each business day's filings that evening. The site updates the following morning.

About the data

Who Just Raised turns the SEC's Form D filings into a readable list of companies that are raising money right now.

What is a Form D?

When a US company sells shares, notes or other securities privately (rather than in a public offering), it usually relies on an exemption called Regulation D. Companies using it must file a short notice, Form D, with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale. The notice includes the company's address, industry, how much it is trying to raise, and how much it has sold so far.

Three questions get their own pages: how to read a Form D (what each number means and where people misread them), 506(b) vs 506(c) (why most raises are never publicised), and how to find recently funded companies (what the press and the funding databases miss).

Reading the numbers

Raised is the total amount the company reports as already sold to investors in this offering.
Target is the total offering size. "Open" means the company reported it as indefinite.
Filed is the date the notice reached the SEC, not the date the round closed.
An amendment (Form D/A) updates an earlier notice, often with a higher amount sold. The main lists show new notices only; amendments appear on each company's page.

What we leave out

Investment funds and SPVs. About two thirds of all Form D filings come from pooled funds, special-purpose vehicles and similar structures. They are not operating businesses, so they are excluded.
Real-estate syndications are kept in their own real-estate list.
People. Form D names a company's executives, directors and promoters. Subscribers see those names and roles — it is usually the fastest way to know who to ask for. We do not store the addresses that sit beside them in the filing, which are often home addresses, and names never appear on a public page. Every company page links to the original filing.

Company websites

Form D does not include a website. We look for one by checking the web addresses a company's name suggests, and we only show a link when the site carries the company's name and mentions the city or state on its filing. Less certain matches are held back until they have been checked by hand. Short descriptions in quotation marks are the company's own words, taken from its home page. If we have linked the wrong site, email us and we will fix it.

Limits

Not every private raise appears here. Some companies use other exemptions, some file late, and some never file. Amounts are self-reported and occasionally contain obvious errors; filings above $10B are kept out of totals. If something about your company is wrong, the fix is an amended filing with the SEC, and we pick it up automatically.

Reuse

SEC filings are public records. You are welcome to cite this site; please link to the page you used. A machine-readable feed of the last seven days is at /data/latest.json.