Turn fresh filings into placements

Follow the money instead of the job boards. When a US company raises private capital under Regulation D it files a Form D with the SEC, due within 15 days of its first sale of securities. Not every private raise produces one, but the ones that do land on the public record on a fixed clock, and they land because money moved, not because a req was written. Budget clears before hiring does, which is why the filing reaches you ahead of the job board. Takeoff Radar turns every one of those filings into a call list you can filter to your states, your sectors, and the deal sizes you work.

Because that is what the money is for. A priced round is raised against a plan, and the plan is mostly people: engineers, sellers, a first finance hire, sometimes a whole function that did not exist. A Form D does not promise you an open req, and we will not pretend it does. What it tells you is that a company told the SEC it is raising, dated, on the public record, and where the filing reports an amount already sold you can see that too. That is the earliest sourced signal that headcount is coming.

Those are contact databases: they tell you how to reach someone. This is a timing signal: it tells you who is worth reaching this week. The feed hands your contact tool the one thing it cannot produce, which is who just filed. You still bring your own enrichment for emails and phone numbers, and we stop deliberately short of that line.

Timing, and what gets recorded at all. A funding announcement has no deadline: it happens when the company decides, if it ever decides, and the databases that lead with announcements inherit that delay. A Form D runs on a federal clock instead, due within 15 days of the first sale, whether or not anyone ever writes a press release. Plenty of private raises never reach the press, and for those the filing is often the only public trace there is.

The company as filed, its principal-office city and state, the filing date, the date of first sale, the amount reported sold so far, the filer-stated offering target, a sector label that states its own provenance, and a direct link to the source Form D on SEC EDGAR. Most rows also carry the executives and directors named in the filing. Executive officers carry a labeled LinkedIn search; directors are listed by name and title only, because we will not point cold outreach at a client's board. Every figure on a row is the filer's own as-filed statement. The sector and stage labels are ours, and each says on its face whether it was inferred from the filing or web-verified.

No, and that is on purpose. Contact data goes stale, gets resold, and is already in the tool you run. What is genuinely hard to get is a dated, sourced list of companies that just told the SEC they are raising, before the news does. That is the part we do. You get the company, the filing, and the executives and directors named in it.

We pull EDGAR every weeknight and publish the same evening, so a filing is on the feed within hours of the SEC's daily index closing, and on your screen well before the next morning. EDGAR does not accept filings at the weekend, so weeknights cover everything. On Pro, your saved territory is emailed and pushed to Slack instead of you coming back to check.

The feed is free, with every filter, forever. Pro is $40 a month and adds saved-search alerts, a company watchlist, and CSV export, which is what one recruiter working a territory needs. Monthly, cancel anytime, no per-seat pricing. Work the free feed for a week first and see whether your patch is busy enough to be worth it.