Turn fresh filings into calls

Start with the money, then read the job board. A US company selling shares privately has to report the offering to the SEC within 15 days of the first money in. The filing is public the day it is accepted.

Companies raise money to spend it, and most of it goes to payroll. The filing usually shows up before the job posting does. Once the postings appear, they show what the money was for.

Takeoff Radar checks EDGAR every weeknight. When we can find a company's own job board, we also record how many roles are open and how long they have been sitting there.

Tell BD Beast your states, sectors, and deal sizes, and it writes the call list from all of it.

Most funding lists are built from announcements. A company puts out news, a database writes it down, and every recruiter paying for that database gets the same name on the same morning. The recently funded box in LinkedIn Recruiter, Apollo, and ZoomInfo works the same way.

An announcement has no deadline. A filing does, and it happens whether or not anyone ever writes a press release. We checked every company that filed to raise under $15M across three weeks in June, 153 in all. Six weeks later, 130 of them still had no funding announcement anywhere we could find.

The difference shows up on the row. Every company here links the filing it came from, so any figure can be checked against the source before you dial. You set the territory yourself too, with no view limits and no fixed handful of picks each morning.

A funding list also stops at the money. Where we have read a company's own job board, the row says what it showed, and BD Beast weighs both when it picks.

You could, and some free sites search the same filings. What you take on is the sorting.

Thousands of notices land every month and most are not operating companies. They are investment funds, property deals and holding companies. An amendment restates the whole notice, so one raise can arrive looking like four. The same raise sometimes arrives twice under two file numbers.

We screen all of that out every night, and what survives links its source filing so you can check us. A subscription gets you delivery and correctness.

The company as filed, its principal-office city and state, the filing date, and the date of first sale. The amount reported sold so far and the filer-stated offering target. A sector label that says whether we checked it against the company's own website. Also, 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.

Where we have read the company's own public job board, the row also carries the count of open roles and the date we read it. We count open roles, not people. No count means we found no board, not that nobody is hiring.

Every dollar figure and every name on a row is the filer's own as-filed statement. The sector label and the job-board reading are ours, and each says on its face how we got it.

No email addresses, and no bought contact data of any kind. That is on purpose: it goes stale, gets resold, and is already in the tool you run. Keep using that tool to find the person. This one picks the company, with the filing to back it up.

However, the phone number printed on the filing is included on the Monday briefings and on every BD Beast call sheet for signed-in users. At a small company, that number might reach a founder, but we cannot guarantee who picks up that phone.