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sec-form-d-private-placements-dataset

license: cc-by-nc-4.0
license_link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
pretty_name: SEC Form D Private Placements & Fundraising Events
tags:
  - sec
  - form-d
  - private-placements
  - fundraising
  - venture-capital
  - regulation-d
configs:
  - config_name: S
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/S/formd_events-*.parquet
  - config_name: M-formd_events
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/M/formd_events-*.parquet
  - config_name: M-formd_issuers
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/M/formd_issuers-*.parquet
  - config_name: L-formd_events
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/L/formd_events-*.parquet
  - config_name: L-formd_issuers
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/L/formd_issuers-*.parquet
  - config_name: L-formd_related_persons
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/L/formd_related_persons-*.parquet
language:
  - en
task_categories:
  - tabular-classification
size_categories:
  - 1M<n<10M

SEC Form D Private Placements & Fundraising Events

Every SEC Form D private placement filing as analysis-ready tables: fundraising events with amounts raised, issuer profiles and related persons, built from the SEC's official structured Form D data (2008–present) plus EDGAR incremental filings.

Part of the DataForge Open Data program — full production packages, free for academic and personal use. Canonical dataset page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/sec-form-d-private-placements-dataset

Package inventory (original bundles, served from CDN)

Package	Tier	Rows	Size	SHA-256
`formd-tier1-S-2026-08-05.zip`	S	4,186	0.6 MB	`a017ea75e6fe5f5421152f4b158c9064ce959ca086f8279ab8ddb097a08249e5`
`formd-tier1-M-2026-08-05.zip`	M	1,128,628	115.7 MB	`391b37dd61573f13e552e43a3044e7c7cddc3da0f727c4da0fda40b423e8e2c0`
`formd-tier1-L-2026-08-05.zip`	L	4,085,050	240.8 MB	`d1ce6c270f3a19fa88bfce1b34864b74a736027e49186557fda754f0dffc904e`

All files are also served from the machine-readable open-data index: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data (per-package URL: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/<package_id>).

Native parquet files (this repo)

Every table ships as snappy parquet under data/<tier>/ and renders in the Dataset Viewer above (one config per tier / table).

Original zip bundles (archive download)

The original production packages (csv + parquet + data dictionary + datasheet + license inside) are served from the DataForge open-data CDN (free, same license):

formd-tier1-S-2026-08-05.zip (0.6 MB, tier S)
formd-tier1-M-2026-08-05.zip (115.7 MB, tier M)
formd-tier1-L-2026-08-05.zip (240.8 MB, tier L)

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

Use cases

Private-market and venture fundraising research
Deal sourcing and investor prospecting
Regulation D exemption and market-structure analysis
Joining private placements to public-company data via CIK

Source & methodology

SEC Form D quarterly structured data + EDGAR increments

Coverage, update cadence and the full field-level data dictionary are on the dataset page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/sec-form-d-private-placements-dataset (DATA-DICTIONARY.md and DATASHEET.md are inside each package zip).

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

Academic / personal use: CC BY-NC 4.0 on the DataForge curated layer — attribution and a backlink to https://data.zalize.com are required.
Commercial use: requires a DataForge commercial license — contact us via the portal.
Upstream license terms continue to apply to the underlying data.

Citation

DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from official SEC Form D data — https://data.zalize.com/datasets/sec-form-d-private-placements-dataset

DOI (Zenodo mirror): 10.5281/zenodo.21812580 · GitHub Release mirror: https://github.com/wookat/dataforge-pipelines/releases/tag/open-data-sec-form-d

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("zalizedata/sec-form-d-private-placements-dataset", "S", split="train")
print(ds[0])

Available configs: S, M-formd_events, M-formd_issuers, L-formd_events, L-formd_issuers, L-formd_related_persons.

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Full catalog (25 datasets): https://data.zalize.com/open-data · all HF repos: https://huggingface.co/zalizedata