Methods for tracking venture capital deals and valuations using publicly available data.
You do not need a $20,000 PitchBook subscription to track VC deals. Much of the data is available publicly if you know where to look.
Combine these sources with GitDealFlow's signal tracking to build a complete picture. The free sources tell you what already happened. GitDealFlow tells you what is about to happen.
Yes. Form D filings are public records filed with the SEC whenever a company raises money under Regulation D exemptions. They include the amount raised and the date, though not the valuation.
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The steps above are not generic advice; they are how the GitDealFlow dataset is used in practice. The underlying data covers 350+ startup GitHub organizations in 15 sectors, refreshed weekly, with breakouts surfacing 21 to 47 days before rounds are announced. Every workflow here compresses to the same loop: pull the signal, confirm it with a second window, qualify it against sector context, then act while the round is still quiet.
A practical read-through of How to Track VC Deals Using Public Data: the dataset behind this page refreshes weekly across 350+ organizations and 15 sectors, and every figure shown traces to a public GitHub REST API pull. That matters for two reasons. Reproducibility: any number here can be re-derived from primary sources, which is the standard the published methodology sets for itself. Timeliness: engineering acceleration precedes announcements, so this page follows the data cadence rather than the news cycle, and the freshness endpoint always reports the exact pull date.
If How to Track VC Deals Using Public Data is your entry point, the fastest next steps are fixed: skim the glossary for the three or four terms that anchor the topic, open the research dataset to see the raw weekly snapshots behind the summary numbers, and run one live query against the free momentum checker with a company you already know well. Seeing the signal fire on a familiar name is the quickest way to judge whether code-side sourcing belongs in your own workflow.
One caveat worth stating plainly on How to Track VC Deals Using Public Data: momentum is a leading indicator, not a verdict. A repository can accelerate for reasons that never become a fundraise, and a quiet quarter does not mean a team is failing. The disciplined use of this page is as one input in a stack, a way to rank where scarce diligence time goes, and a way to notice change early. The methodology page documents every limitation, including the bot filter, the two-period confirmation rule, and the sectors where coverage is thinnest.