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What Form D data can tell you
Form D is a notice filing used for certain offerings made under exemptions from Securities Act registration. A source-linked Form D dataset can show the issuer, claimed exemption, offering structure, first-sale date, amounts offered and sold, investor counts, sales compensation, related people, signatures, and later amendments. It does not prove that an offering is currently open, that the stated amount was ultimately raised, or that the investment was reviewed or approved by the SEC.
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At a glance
- Filing family
- Form D and D/A
- Primary use
- Notice of an exempt offering
- Submission system
- SEC EDGAR
- Offering identity
- SEC file number and accession
- History
- Original notices and amendments
- Authoritative source
- Official filing and structured SEC data
What a Form D filing contains
The filing describes an issuer and an offering at a particular point in time. Its structured fields support research across private funds, operating companies, pooled investment vehicles, real estate offerings, venture financings, and other issuers relying on a reported exemption.
A useful data product preserves the original filing identity and source fields before it derives fundraising activity, issuer history, sponsor relationships, or market trends.
- Issuer name, jurisdiction, entity type, year of incorporation, and principal place of business
- Federal exemptions and whether the issuer reports itself as a pooled investment fund
- Industry group, investment-fund type, duration, and revenue or net-asset-range responses
- Date of first sale, total offering amount, amount sold, amount remaining, and minimum investment
- Investor counts, sales commissions, finder's fees, and sales-compensation recipients
- Related people, executive officers, directors, promoters, signatures, and filing contacts
Amendments create the offering history
A D/A amendment is a separate filing, not a replacement row. It may update amounts, participants, addresses, dates, exemptions, or other offering details. Researching the latest filing alone can hide how the offering developed.
AUMSearch keeps each accession and source row intact, then connects filings that can be supported as the same offering chain. Differences between filings are labeled as calculated changes rather than facts directly asserted by the issuer.
| Research question | Evidence to retain | Interpretation limit |
|---|---|---|
| How much was reported sold? | Amount sold and the filing date | The amount is issuer-reported and may change later |
| Is this a new offering? | Original filing, first-sale date, file number, and issuer identity | A newly observed filing is not always a newly formed business |
| Who is connected to it? | Related-person and recipient rows from the filing | A reported role does not establish control beyond the disclosure |
| What changed? | Two source filings in a supported amendment chain | The comparison is an AUMSearch calculation |
Connect the offering to advisers and private funds
Form D becomes more useful when an issuer or pooled investment fund can be connected to the adviser, sponsor, private-fund record, service provider, or related organization reported elsewhere. Those links require evidence: exact identifiers, filing cross-references, addresses, roles, and versioned entity-resolution decisions.
Names alone are not enough. Similar fund names, master-feeder structures, parallel vehicles, renamed issuers, and repeated sponsor branding can otherwise create false matches.
Questions the dataset can support
- Which private offerings were filed during a defined period, state, industry, or exemption?
- Which issuers reported new or amended fundraising activity?
- How did the reported amount sold or investor count change across an offering chain?
- Which people, recipients, advisers, sponsors, or organizations are connected through source evidence?
- What filing and official document support each offering fact shown in a screen, API response, or feed?
Important Form D limitations
Form D is a notice filing and is not a complete private-market transaction database. An issuer may amend a filing, claim an indefinite offering amount, report a date after sales began, or rely on an exemption without providing every commercial term a researcher would want.
The filing does not establish investment quality, current availability, fund performance, valuation, liquidity, accreditation, suitability, or SEC approval. Any trend should define the included filing types, amendment treatment, date field, geography, currency assumptions, and source cutoff.
How AUMSearch represents Form D data
AUMSearch retains the six-table SEC source structure, the filing accession and file number, as-filed issuer and participant details, and the dates and amounts used in any derived comparison. The same record model is designed to support browser research, documented API responses, MCP tools, and recurring data feeds without losing the official filing trail.
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Primary sources
Definitions and regulatory claims on this page are grounded in the following official public resources.
- SEC Form D data setsOfficial quarterly structured data, documentation, downloads, coverage notes, and filing-derived tables.
- SEC Form D reference copyOfficial reference form describing the notice fields reported by issuers of exempt offerings.
- SEC EDGAR searchOfficial filing search and access to submission documents and filing history.
- Electronic Code of Federal Regulations: Regulation DCurrent federal rules for the relevant Regulation D exemptions and notice requirements.