SEC Form D Private Placements & Fundraising Events

What you get

• S — Recent slice: 4.2K latest Form D fundraising events
• M — Research pack: 1.1M rows of events and issuer data
• L — Full history: 4.1M rows incl. issuers and related persons (2008–present)
• Amounts offered/sold, exemption types, industry group, issuer identifiers (CIK)
• Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included with every package

Sample preview

First 50 rows of the real free-sample file — the identical schema you get in every package. Click a column to sort, or filter across all rows.

Data dictionary summary

Key fields — the full data dictionary ships with every purchase.

Coverage statistics

Records

4,085,050

Fundraising events

768,749

Fields

71

Time coverage

2008-01-02 – 2026-08-03

Largest package

252.5 MB

Available packages

Real contents of the current builds — row counts, sizes and checksums come from the packaging manifest, not estimates.

Built from all official SEC Form D structured quarterly data sets (2008Q1 onward) plus EDGAR full-index incremental filings for the current quarter (see pipelines/formd).

Free Open Data — full downloads

This dataset is part of the DataForge Open Data program: the upstream license (Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: public domain, official SEC Form D structured data) permits free redistribution, so the complete packages below are free — no signup. Please cite DataForge (data.zalize.com) with a backlink when you use or share this data.

License: Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: public domain, official SEC Form D structured data · Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from official SEC Form D data

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 8 packages, 574.7 MB total , 9,302,914 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

# Download the whole dataset repo (hf CLI — pip install -U huggingface_hub)
hf download zalizedata/sec-form-d-private-placements-dataset --repo-type dataset --local-dir sec-form-d-private-placements-dataset

Protocol access (hf://, resolve links, token auth for private repos) is documented in the developer docs →

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Source: official SEC structured Form D data sets (quarterly, 2008Q1–present) plus EDGAR incremental filings.
• Snapshot builds are cut from the latest SEC quarterly release; subscriptions deliver refreshed packages quarterly.
• Every package ships with a MANIFEST (per-file row counts, bytes, sha256) for verification.

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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