zalizedata/sec-form-d-private-placements-dataset

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](https://data.zalize.com/datasets/sec-form-d-private-placements-dataset)

Package inventory (original bundles, served from CDN)

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.

Related datasets

More DataForge open datasets in Companies & Finance:

• —US Public Company Financials, Insider Trades & 13F Holdings (SEC EDGAR)
• —Global LEI Company Registry (GLEIF)
• —US Patents, Citations & Assignee Graph (USPTO / PatentsView)
• —Business POI & Locations (Government Open Registries)

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