---
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](https://data.zalize.com/open-data) — full production
packages, free for academic and personal use. Canonical dataset page:
**[https://data.zalize.com/datasets/sec-form-d-private-placements-dataset](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`](https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/formd-tier1-S-2026-08-05) (0.6 MB, tier S)
- [`formd-tier1-M-2026-08-05.zip`](https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/formd-tier1-M-2026-08-05) (115.7 MB, tier M)
- [`formd-tier1-L-2026-08-05.zip`](https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/formd-tier1-L-2026-08-05) (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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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](https://data.zalize.com/datasets)
  — contact us via the portal.
- Upstream license terms continue to apply to the underlying data.

## Citation

```text
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

```python
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`.

## Related datasets

More DataForge open datasets in **Companies & Finance**:

- [US Public Company Financials, Insider Trades & 13F Holdings (SEC EDGAR)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zalizedata/us-public-company-financials-dataset)
- [Global LEI Company Registry (GLEIF)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zalizedata/global-lei-company-registry-dataset)
- [US Patents, Citations & Assignee Graph (USPTO / PatentsView)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zalizedata/us-patents-citation-company-dataset)
- [Business POI & Locations (Government Open Registries)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zalizedata/business-poi-locations-dataset)

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