Raised and hiring signals

Reads two public sources. It needs no credentials. SEC EDGAR holds the Form D filings. SEC says on its developer page: "Current guidelines limit each user to a total of no more than 10 requests per second, regardless of the number of machines used to submit requests." SEC also asks for a declared User-Agent. Greenhouse says in its Job Board API documentation: "Job Board data is publicly available, so authentication is not required for any GET endpoints." Lever says: "Note that all job postings in the published state are publicly viewable. These jobs may be scraped by third parties." Ashby describes its posting API as a way "to get data for all currently published Job Postings for your organization".

Author: Don Mangu (GitHub). This skill needs no token. For a larger search (Lever and Ashby boards, amount and state filters, a confidence score per match, a dataset you can export) the author also runs a paid hosted version on the Apify Store: Funded Companies Hiring (disclosure: the author owns it). You never need it for the steps below. This is an unofficial tool and is not affiliated with the SEC, Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby.

Example prompts

• "Which companies filed a Form D this week and have open jobs on Greenhouse?"
• "Find newly funded companies in the last 5 days that are hiring engineers."
• "Check if this Form D issuer has a job board."

Out of scope: "Give me the founders' emails." The skill never reads the names of the people in a Form D and never looks for contacts.

Step 1: list the Form D filings of one day

The daily index is one text file per business day: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/daily-index/<year>/QTR<n>/form.<yyyymmdd>.idx. A Form D line starts with D (an amendment starts with D/A). The line holds the company name, the CIK, the filing date and the file path. A weekend or holiday has no file (404). Most Form D filers are funds and SPVs: skip names with words such as Fund, Series, SPV, Trust, REIT or LP.

Step 2: build the job board name and compare names

Remove legal suffixes (Inc, LLC, Corp, Holdings, Technologies) from the company name, remove spaces and punctuation, and ask Greenhouse: https://boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/<name>. The answer holds the board name. An unknown board answers 404. Then read https://boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/<name>/jobs for the open jobs. Compare the board name with the company name. A board with a different name is a different company that has the same word, so reject it.

import json, re, time, urllib.request, urllib.error

# Say who you are. Put your own tool name and contact here (a web page or an email you own).
UA = "MyFundingJobsCheck/1.0 (contact: https://example.com/about)"

def get(url, pause):
    time.sleep(pause)  # sec.gov: stay under 10 requests per second. Job boards: 1 per second.
    req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": UA})
    try:
        return urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30).read().decode("utf-8", "replace")
    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
        if e.code == 404:
            return None
        raise

SKIP = re.compile(r"\b(fund|series|spv|trust|reit|feeder|master|lp|l\.p\.)\b", re.I)
SUFFIX = {"inc", "llc", "corp", "corporation", "ltd", "co", "company", "holdings", "technologies"}

def norm(name):
    words = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9 ]", "", name.lower().replace(",", " ")).split()
    while len(words) > 1 and words[-1] in SUFFIX:
        words.pop()
    return "".join(words)

def slug(name):
    words = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9 ]", "", name.lower().replace(",", " ")).split()
    while len(words) > 1 and words[-1] in SUFFIX:
        words.pop()
    return "".join(words)

idx = get("https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/daily-index/2026/QTR4/form.20261009.idx", 0.2)
names = []
for line in idx.splitlines():
    m = re.match(r"^D\s+(.+?)\s+(\d+)\s+20261009\s", line)
    if m and not SKIP.search(m.group(1)):
        names.append(m.group(1))
print(len(names), "operating-company Form D filings on 2026-10-09 (names not containing fund words)")

for name in names[:30]:
    s = slug(name)
    if len(s) < 3:
        continue
    root = get(f"https://boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/{s}", 1.0)
    if not root:
        continue
    board = json.loads(root)["name"]
    jobs = json.loads(get(f"https://boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/{s}/jobs", 1.0))["jobs"]
    same = norm(board) == norm(name)  # a board with another name is a different company: reject it
    print(f"{name:26} board={board!r:26} same name={same!s:5} open jobs={len(jobs)}")

Output of this code on 11 October 2026 (live answers; the second line shows why the name check matters):

93 operating-company Form D filings on 2026-10-09 (names not containing fund words)
AMIRA LEARNING INC         board='Amira Learning'           same name=True  open jobs=3
Echo Ltd.                  board='Echo Neurotechnologies'   same name=False open jobs=20

Step 3: answer from the fields

• Show the company, the filing date, the offering amount if you read the Form D file, the board link https://boards.greenhouse.io/<name> and the number of open jobs.
• Say how sure the match is: an equal board name is strong. A board you found only by the web address is weak.
• If a company has no Greenhouse board, say "no board found on Greenhouse". It may use Lever, Ashby, Workable or another system. Do not say that it is not hiring.

Rules

• Public sources only. No login, no cookies, no attempts around blocks.
• SEC: declare a User-Agent with your own tool name and contact, and stay far below 10 requests per second. Job boards: one request per second per host. Stop on a 403. On a 429 wait the time in the Retry-After header, or stop.
• Never use another person's email as contact. Put a web page or an email you own.
• Do not read or output the related persons block of a Form D (names of directors and officers).
• A Form D shows a sale of securities, not a reason to hire. Do not claim that the company hires because it raised money.

Limits

This reads one day and one job board system. A search over a week, Lever and Ashby boards, a score for each match and an export are slow to do by hand, so a script or the hosted version is quicker. A company can file a Form D up to 15 days after its first sale, so a recent raise may not show yet.