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$389.1M Across 4 Fresh SEC Form D Filings This Week

Michalis Solomou — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:52:49 +0000

Four companies filed public SEC Form D notices this week, disclosing a combined $389,094,710 in new capital raised. Each filing is scanned, scored, and enriched by Funding Signals the moment it hits SEC EDGAR — days to weeks before any funding-news outlet is likely to cover it.

This week's filings

Epicrispr Biotechnologies, Inc. — $176,754,406 (Biotechnology, score 97/100)
ICON Technology, Inc. — $114,887,843 (Other Technology, score 97/100)
K Health, Inc. — $58,949,942 (Health Care, score 90/100)
Oxbridge Health, Inc. — $38,502,519 (Other Health Care, score 91/100)

Why this matters for outbound

A funding round means fresh, unallocated budget and a board expecting it to be spent on growth — the best B2B sales trigger there is, if you catch it before everyone else does. Form D filings are public the moment SEC EDGAR publishes them, which is almost always earlier than any press coverage (most private raises never get press coverage at all).

Funding Signals turns each filing into a ready-to-work lead:

Real domain, contact email, and social links — found on demand, charged only if we actually find something
LinkedIn/X profiles of the named executives — pulled straight off the filing's own Item 3 disclosure
Open roles at the company (what they're actually hiring for right now)
Tech stack detected on their own site
An AI-drafted outreach email personalized to the filing

Try it

Free tier, no card required: fundingsignals.net

$1.32B Across 6 Fresh SEC Form D Filings This Week

Michalis Solomou — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:51:12 +0000

Every week we scan new SEC Form D filings the moment they hit EDGAR, score each one 0-100 as a B2B sales lead, and turn the best ones into ready-to-work accounts. Here's what filed this week — six companies, $1,324,841,900 combined.

Kalshi Inc. — $1,120,010,122 (Other Technology, score 97)

The largest single raise we've tracked since we started this newsletter — over a billion dollars in one Form D filing, filed just days ago.

Prefect Technologies, Inc. — $65,330,314 (Other Technology, score 97)

First-time filer, fresh budget, filed the same week as Kalshi.

ChargeItSpot, LLC — $57,096,316 (Other Technology, score 97)

Another first-time filer — nobody has pitched them yet.

Hydra Host, Inc. — $35,000,000 (Other Technology, score 94)

Cardiosense, Inc. — $26,137,050 (Other Health Care, score 90)

Quaestor Technologies, Inc. — $21,268,098 (Other Technology, score 91)

All six filed publicly on SEC EDGAR days before any funding-news outlet is likely to cover them. Funding Signals turns filings like these into a scored, enriched lead feed the moment they're filed — real domain + contact emails, LinkedIn/X profiles of the named executives, open roles, tech stack, and an AI-drafted outreach email, all pay-per-use and charged only when something is actually found.

Free tier, no card required: https://fundingsignals.net/this-week?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=round25

$592.1M Across 6 Fresh SEC Form D Filings This Week

Michalis Solomou — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:59:45 +0000

Six companies filed SEC Form D this week, raising a combined $592.1M. Here's what our scoring model flagged as the highest-quality signals — and why "just raised funding" is one of the best cold-outreach triggers in B2B sales.

The filings

Generalist AI, Inc. — $198.2M (Other Technology, score 97/100)
CSS Solutions LLC — $122.9M (Other Technology, score 95/100)
EfficientAI Corp — $93.1M (Other Technology, score 97/100)
EXUMA Biotech Corp. — $70.0M (Biotechnology, score 94/100)
Blacksmith Software Inc. — $66.3M (Other Technology, score 93/100)
Locus Robotics Corp. — $41.6M (Other Technology, score 96/100)

Why this matters for sales

A company that just closed a funding round has fresh budget, a mandate to spend it fast, and almost always a hiring push right behind it. That's a very different conversation than a cold list — you're not guessing whether they have budget, you know they do, and you know roughly when it landed.

How we score it

Every SEC Form D filing gets pulled from EDGAR the moment it's public, then scored 0-100 on raise size, industry, filer history, and other signals — so you're not digging through raw filings by hand.

Funding Signals turns these filings into scored, enriched sales leads: company info, disclosed executives, and (optionally) their LinkedIn/X profiles and contact details.

Free API key, no card required: https://fundingsignals.net/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=round24

$393.5M Across 5 Fresh SEC Form D Filings This Week

Michalis Solomou — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:24:23 +0000

Five companies filed SEC Form D funding notices this week, disclosing $393.5M combined — before most of them ever hit TechCrunch.

The raises

CSS Solutions LLC — $122.9M (Other Technology, score 96)
Ultra Robotics Corp. — $57.1M (Other Technology, score 96)
EXUMA Biotech Corp. — $70.0M (Biotechnology, score 95)
Blacksmith Software Inc. — $66.3M (Other Technology, score 94)
Ensysce Biosciences — $77.2M (Other Health Care, score 93)

Why this matters if you sell B2B

A Form D is a legal notice, not a press release — most companies file one within 15 days of their first sale of securities, and most never issue a press release about it at all. If you're only watching TechCrunch or Google Alerts, you're seeing a minority of the funding activity that's actually happening.

Each of these is a company that just got a fresh budget and a growth mandate, days or weeks before their competitors' sales teams even hear about it.

How we track this

Funding Signals pulls directly from SEC EDGAR's Form D filings, scores each one for lead quality (raise size, recency, industry fit, first-time-filer status), and serves it through a free API — no card required.

fundingsignals.net/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=weekly&utm_campaign=round23

$2.24B Across 7 Fresh SEC Form D Filings This Week

Michalis Solomou — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:56:50 +0000

Seven SEC Form D filings this week, combining for $2.24B in fresh capital — the biggest week we've tracked so far. Every one of these is a real buying signal: a company that just closed a round, with a budget that hasn't been allocated yet.

The raises

Flexential — $800M, Other Technology. The largest single raise in this feed's history.

QuantumLight — $432M, Other Technology.

Higgsfield — $400M, Other Technology.

Tejon Treating & Carbon Solutions — $295M, Oil & Gas. Proof this isn't a SaaS-only list.

599 Holdings — $240.5M, Construction.

Hopscotch Primary Care — $53M, Health Care.

Vertical Insure — $21M, Other Technology. Small enough that most SDR tools haven't picked it up yet.

Why this matters for outreach

A company that just raised is, for a short window, easier to reach than it will ever be again: budget just got approved, headcount is about to grow, and the vendor list is still open. Wait three months and that window is gone — the tools are picked, the relationships are formed.

Most sales tools only cover venture-backed SaaS. SEC Form D filings cover everything — construction, oil & gas, healthcare, energy — because every private company raising outside capital in the US has to file one.

We built Funding Signals to surface these the day they're filed, scored on likelihood-to-buy-soon: raise size, recency, industry fit, first-time-filer status. Free tier included, no credit card.

https://fundingsignals.net/?utm_source=devto&utm_campaign=round23

$805M Across 7 Fresh SEC Form D Filings This Week

Michalis Solomou — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:05:24 +0000

Seven companies filed SEC Form D notices this week, raising a combined $804,986,450 to build products, hire, and go to market. Ranked below by our 0-100 lead-timing score — raise size, recency, industry fit, and first-time-filer status — highest first.

1. Whatnot Inc. — $547.0M (score 99)

Other Technology. The largest single raise we've scored to date.

2. Pixxel Space Technologies, Inc. — $73.0M (score 99)

Other Technology.

3. Obsidian Security, Inc. — $81.5M (score 99)

Other Technology.

4. Qualitate, Inc. — $31.9M (score 96)

Other Technology.

5. Medora Manufacturing LLC — $32.1M

Manufacturing.

6. Teal Health, Inc. — $21.3M

Health Care.

7. Air Control Concepts Holdings, L.P. — $18.3M

Other Energy.

Each of these companies just got a fresh mandate to spend — new hires, new tools, new vendors. If you sell into any of these industries, this is the week to reach out, not after the press release everyone else already saw.

We built Funding Signals to turn SEC Form D filings into scored, enriched B2B leads — company, industry, raise size, resolved domain, and contact points — the same week they file. Free API key, no card required.

Full list, updated daily: fundingsignals.net/this-week

$1.02B+ Across 5 Fresh SEC Form D Filings This Week

Michalis Solomou — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:51:18 +0000

Five more SEC Form D filings hit EDGAR this week, worth $1.02B+ combined. All fresh, all scored 0-100 on likelihood-to-buy-soon by Funding Signals — a free API that turns public SEC filings into sales-ready leads.

This week's raises

IREN Ltd — $464.9M, score 100/100

Lovable Labs Inc — $382.5M, score 99/100

Georgiamune, Inc. — $92.7M, score 99/100

Daytona Platforms Inc. — $48.3M, score 99/100

WindBorne Systems Inc. — $37.1M, score 97/100

Why this matters for sales

A Form D filing means a company just closed a private raise — real, committed budget for hiring, tooling, and vendors over the next few quarters. Most sellers hear about a raise from a press release months later, after the early movers already got the meeting.

SEC EDGAR publishes these filings the moment they're made, but it's a government filing system, not a sales tool — nobody's refreshing it daily. Funding Signals parses new Form D filings as they land, scores each one on likelihood-to-buy-soon, and resolves a domain plus generic contact points. Free API key, no card required.

Full list of this week's raises: fundingsignals.net/this-week

$225.1M Across 6 Fresh SEC Form D Filings This Week

Michalis Solomou — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:03:11 +0000

Every week, dozens of companies file SEC Form D notices when they raise private capital — a public record that's usually buried in a government filing system nobody checks, days to weeks before any funding-news outlet picks it up.

Here are 6 fresh raises that hit our feed this week, totaling $225.1M combined:

CodeRabbit Inc. — $143.0M (Other Technology, score 98)
oneNav, Inc. — $29.7M (Other Technology, score 92)
Coverbase Inc. — $16.3M (Other Technology, score 88)
Harton, Inc. — $15.1M (Other Technology, score 85)
Adaly AI Inc. — $11.0M (Other Technology, score 83)
Twin Prime AI, Inc. — $10.0M (Other Technology, score 81)

Why this matters for outbound: a company that just raised has budget and a mandate to grow, but hasn't been pitched by every vendor in the space yet. By the time a raise makes headlines, that window is usually closing.

We built Funding Signals to catch these the day they're filed, score them 0-100 on likelihood-to-buy-soon, and turn them into ready-to-use leads. Free tier, no card required: https://fundingsignals.net/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=round20

Full breakdown of the week's raises: https://fundingsignals.net/this-week?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=round20

$216M+ Across 5 Fresh SEC Form D Filings This Week

Michalis Solomou — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:06:39 +0000

Five new SEC Form D filings hit our feed this week, together worth more than $216M in fresh capital across Energy, Technology, and Biotech:

Score	Company	Industry	Raise
91	CIG DS1, LLC	Other Energy	$70.0M
90	Kikitora, Inc.	Other Technology	$19.7M
89	Theradaptive, Inc.	Biotechnology	$36.2M
87	Silicon Derivatives Inc.	Other Technology	$30.5M
86	Alpha Design AI, Inc.	Other Technology	$59.8M

Why this matters if you sell B2B

Every one of these companies just closed a funding round, which means every one of them has fresh budget and is actively deciding what to spend it on - new infrastructure, new tools, new vendors. That decision window is open right now, not in three months when the story finally shows up in a funding-news roundup.

Funding Signals pulls every US SEC Form D filing the day it hits EDGAR, scores it 0-100 for B2B sales relevance, and enriches it with company, industry, and raise size - so you can reach out while "why now" is still obviously true.

Free tier, no card required: fundingsignals.net

Auto-Creating HubSpot Deals from New SEC Form D Filings with Python

Michalis Solomou — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:06:03 +0000

Slack alerts are great for visibility, but they don't do anything by themselves — someone still has to manually create a CRM record before outreach can start. If your team runs on HubSpot, you can skip that step entirely and have a Deal waiting in the right pipeline stage the moment a company files.

This builds on two earlier posts: pulling Form D filings with Python and turning a company name into a website for enrichment. Here we take that enriched data and push it into HubSpot as Deals via the CRM API.

Step 1: Get a HubSpot private app token

In HubSpot, go to Settings → Integrations → Private Apps, create one with crm.objects.deals.write and crm.objects.companies.write scopes, and copy the access token.

Step 2: Pull scored filings from Funding Signals

Same normalized, pre-scored data as the previous tutorials — no need to touch raw SEC EDGAR XML:

import requests
import os

FS_API_KEY = os.environ["FS_API_KEY"]
HUBSPOT_TOKEN = os.environ["HUBSPOT_TOKEN"]

resp = requests.get(
    "https://fundingsignals.net/api/v1/filings",
    params={"days": 1, "min_score": 70},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {FS_API_KEY}"},
)
filings = resp.json()["results"]

Step 3: Upsert the Company, then create a Deal

HubSpot wants a Company object before it'll let you associate a Deal with it, so we do both in one pass:

HUBSPOT_BASE = "https://api.hubapi.com"
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {HUBSPOT_TOKEN}", "Content-Type": "application/json"}

def upsert_company(filing):
    payload = {
        "properties": {
            "name": filing["company_name"],
            "domain": filing.get("website", ""),
            "industry": filing["industry"],
            "state": filing["state"],
        }
    }
    r = requests.post(f"{HUBSPOT_BASE}/crm/v3/objects/companies", json=payload, headers=headers)
    return r.json()["id"]


def create_deal(filing, company_id):
    payload = {
        "properties": {
            "dealname": f"{filing['company_name']} — {filing['industry']} lead",
            "amount": str(filing["amount"]),
            "dealstage": "appointmentscheduled",
            "pipeline": "default",
            "deal_source": "funding_signals",
        },
        "associations": [
            {
                "to": {"id": company_id},
                "types": [{"associationCategory": "HUBSPOT_DEFINED", "associationTypeId": 5}],
            }
        ],
    }
    requests.post(f"{HUBSPOT_BASE}/crm/v3/objects/deals", json=payload, headers=headers)


for filing in filings:
    cid = upsert_company(filing)
    create_deal(filing, cid)

deal_source is a custom property — create it under Settings → Properties → Deal properties so reps can filter "funding_signals" leads separately from inbound.

Step 4: Add a link back to the original filing

Deals in HubSpot support a description field — drop the source link in there so reps can verify the filing themselves before reaching out:

    payload["properties"]["description"] = (
        f"Source: https://fundingsignals.net/companies/{filing['id']}"
        f"?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=tutorial6"
    )

Why go straight to a Deal instead of a Contact

A Contact with no company context sits in a queue. A Deal already has an amount, an industry, and a pipeline stage attached, so it shows up on a rep's dashboard as something to work today, not something to qualify later. For funding data specifically — where timing is the whole point — skipping the qualification step is the difference between reaching out first and reaching out fifth.

Wire this up against a free Funding Signals API key if you want to see real filings flow into your own HubSpot pipeline instead of stubbing the response.

Get a Slack Alert the Moment a Startup Files for Funding (Python)

Michalis Solomou — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:02:55 +0000

Your sales team doesn't live in their inbox — they live in Slack. If a competitor's Series B lands in a shared channel five minutes after it's filed, someone on your team can be drafting an outreach email before the news even hits TechCrunch.

I already covered pulling SEC Form D filings with Python and emailing yourself a daily digest. This time we're skipping email entirely and pushing new funding events straight into a Slack channel the moment they're scored, using an Incoming Webhook.

Step 1: Create a Slack Incoming Webhook

In Slack, go to Apps → Incoming Webhooks → Add to Slack, pick the channel (e.g. #funding-alerts), and copy the webhook URL. It looks like:

https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Keep it secret — anyone with that URL can post to your channel.

Step 2: Pull today's filings

Rather than parsing raw SEC EDGAR XML ourselves, I'm using the Funding Signals API, which already normalizes Form D filings into clean JSON (company, amount, industry, state, filing date) and scores each one for B2B sales relevance:

import requests
import os

FS_API_KEY = os.environ["FS_API_KEY"]
SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL = os.environ["SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL"]

resp = requests.get(
    "https://fundingsignals.net/api/v1/filings",
    params={"days": 1, "min_score": 70},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {FS_API_KEY}"},
)
filings = resp.json()["results"]

min_score=70 filters out the noise (tiny angel rounds, real-estate LLCs) and keeps only filings that look like genuine B2B prospects.

Step 3: Format and post to Slack

Slack's Block Kit makes the message actually readable instead of a wall of text:

def post_to_slack(filing):
    blocks = [
        {
            "type": "section",
            "text": {
                "type": "mrkdwn",
                "text": (
                    f"*<https://fundingsignals.net/companies/{filing['id']}"
                    f"?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=tutorial5|{filing['company_name']}>*\n"
                    f"💰 ${filing['amount']:,.0f} · {filing['industry']} · {filing['state']}"
                ),
            },
        },
        {
            "type": "context",
            "elements": [
                {"type": "mrkdwn", "text": f"Filed {filing['filing_date']} · relevance score {filing['score']}/100"}
            ],
        },
    ]
    requests.post(SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL, json={"blocks": blocks})


for filing in filings:
    post_to_slack(filing)

Each message links straight back to the full company profile on Funding Signals, so whoever sees the alert can click through for firmographics, contact leads, and the original SEC filing — no separate lookup step.

Step 4: Run it on a schedule

Same GitHub Actions cron pattern from the email digest tutorial works here — just point it at slack_alert.py instead:

name: Slack Funding Alerts
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 14 * * 1-5"  # 9am ET, weekdays
jobs:
  alert:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5        with:
          python-version: "3.12"
      - run: pip install requests
      - run: python slack_alert.py
        env:
          FS_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.FS_API_KEY }}
          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}

Why Slack over email

Email digests are great for a once-a-day summary. But funding data is time-sensitive — the earlier you reach out after a round closes, the less crowded your inbox is next to every other vendor who saw the same TechCrunch article. A Slack channel your whole sales team already has open beats a digest sitting unread until lunch.

If you want to try this against real, freshly-filed data instead of stubbing it out, Funding Signals has a free tier that's enough to wire this up end to end.

A Daily Email Digest of Newly Funded Companies with Python and Cron

Michalis Solomou — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:43:42 +0000

I don't want to check a dashboard every morning for new funding rounds. I want it in my inbox before coffee. Here's a small Python script + cron job that does exactly that, using the same SEC EDGAR pipeline from an earlier post.

The script

import smtplib
import requests
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from datetime import date

def get_yesterdays_filings():
    resp = requests.get(
        "https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index",
        params={"forms": "D", "dateRange": "custom"},
        headers={"User-Agent": "research example@example.com"},    )
    resp.raise_for_status()
    hits = resp.json().get("hits", {}).get("hits", [])
    return [h["_source"] for h in hits]


def build_digest(filings):
    if not filings:
        return "No new Form D filings yesterday."
    lines = [f"{len(filings)} new Form D filings — {date.today()}\n"]
    for f in filings[:20]:
        name = f.get("display_names", ["Unknown"])[0]
        lines.append(f"- {name}")
    return "\n".join(lines)


def send_email(body, to_addr):
    msg = MIMEText(body)
    msg["Subject"] = f"Funding digest — {date.today()}"
    msg["From"] = "digest@yourdomain.com"    msg["To"] = to_addr

    with smtplib.SMTP("smtp.yourprovider.com", 587) as server:
        server.starttls()
        server.login("digest@yourdomain.com", "your-app-password")
        server.send_message(msg)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    filings = get_yesterdays_filings()
    digest = build_digest(filings)
    send_email(digest, "you@yourdomain.com")```
{% endraw %}
## Scheduling it

Add this to your crontab ({% raw %}`crontab -e`{% endraw %}) to run it every weekday morning at 7am:
{% raw %}

0 7 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/python3 /path/to/digest.py >> /var/log/funding-digest.log 2>&1


yaml

If you don't have a server sitting around, a free-tier GitHub Actions scheduled workflow works just as well and skips the "what if my laptop is asleep" problem:



```yaml
name: Daily Funding Digest
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 12 * * 1-5'  # UTC time
jobs:
  send-digest:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4      - run: pip install requests
      - run: python digest.py
        env:
          SMTP_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SMTP_PASSWORD }}

What's missing from this bare-bones version

This gets you a working digest, but it's not a lead list yet:

No filtering. You'll get every filing, every industry, every state — see my post on filtering by industry and state to narrow it down before it hits the email.
No dedup across amendment filings. Companies sometimes file a Form D and then a Form D/A (amendment) days later, which will show up as a second, near-identical entry.
No ranking. A $200K friends-and-family round and a $50M Series B look identical in this script — you'll want to sort by offering amount at minimum.

I ended up building Funding Signals mostly to solve the filtering and dedup problem — it exposes a REST API you can hit from the same digest script instead of hitting raw EDGAR, already deduped and scored. The free /v1/sample endpoint returns the same shape of data if you want to swap it in.

Either way, the point stands: a 40-line script and a cron job beats checking a dashboard every day.