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AskEdgar Opens SEC Filing Data API to Retail Traders

We Built the SEC Filing Tool Used by $1B+ Funds (Now Open to Retail Traders)

AskEdgar published an article describing its API that converts SEC filings into structured data on dilution, shelf registrations, cash runway and underwriting agreements. The company says the API is used by $1B+ funds and is now available to retail traders.

Original post · 6 min read
X ArticleWe Built the SEC Filing Tool Used by $1B+ Funds (Now Open to Retail Traders)
We built an API that turns every SEC filing into structured, real-time data.
Dilution ratings across 2,000+ tickers. Active shelf registrations. Cash runway calculations. Bank agreements with ROFR and tail financing clauses. Pump-and-dump risk scores.
The kind of data you'd normally pay $50K+ a year to access, and for some of these fields, data that literally doesn't exist on Bloomberg or any other institutional provider.
Our API is already being used by $1B+ funds, prop desks and investment banks.
And as of today, it's open to retail for the first time.
Here's how we got here, and what you can build with it.
I — Why This Data Doesn't Exist Anywhere Else
Most traders assume that if something matters, Bloomberg has it.
For large-cap equities, that's mostly true.
For small-caps, the space where 90% of retail trading pain comes from dilution, offerings, and pump-and-dumps, the institutional data providers fall apart.
Here's what they're missing:
Float that actually reflects reality. When a company converts debt to shares, the float changes overnight. Most providers don't update for months. We tack it on within 24 hours of the filing. That one field alone influences shelf capacity, offering ability, and downstream dilution risk, and no one else is doing it right.
Right of first refusal and tail financing. When you see H.C. Wainwright underwrite a small-cap offering, there's usually a contract locking the company into them for the next 12–24 months, with tail fees that keep the relationship sticky even if the company switches banks. This data sits inside exhibit agreements buried in filings. Structured. Queryable. Nowhere else.
Accurate cash runway. Most "months of cash remaining" calculations are a quarterly cash divided by a quarterly burn. Ours accounts for recent raises, warrant exercises, and actual operating burn pulled from the most recent 10-Q, updated filing by filing.
Shelf capacity relative to float. A 10M share shelf on a 2M share float is a completely different situation than the same shelf on a 500M share float. We calculate this ratio in real time. Most providers don't even store shelf data in a queryable format.
Pump-and-dump pattern scoring. Per-ticker scores for country, underwriter, float, and scam risk — each derived from structured filing data and paired with social-media evidence of an orchestrated pump-and-dump.
II — What It Took to Build Out This Data
Three years. Sleepless nights. A lot of things that didn't work.
The core problem: SEC filings are text. Thousands of pages of unstructured legal language, filed across dozens of form types, updated constantly. If you want structured data out of them, you either hire a team of analysts to read every filing by hand, or you build a system that can do it reliably at scale.
We chose the second path. Here's the rough shape of what it took:
Monitor every filing that can change capital structure. Not just the obvious ones (10-K, 10-Q, etc). The quiet ones too, with buried warrant exercises, debt conversions in exhibits, prospectus supplements that change shelf capacity mid-flight.
Build parsers for every form type. Each filing type has its own structure, its own language, its own edge cases. What a PIPE looks like in one 8-K exhibit is not what it looks like in another. The parsers have to handle all of it.
Layer AI on top of parsing. AI finds the keywords and phrases that suggest a dilution event, a new agreement, a compliance issue. Then manual verification commits the data. AI gets us 80% of the way; human review catches the edge cases that would otherwise corrupt the dataset.
Iterate constantly. Filing templates change. New deal structures emerge. Companies find new ways to raise capital that didn't exist five years ago. If the system isn't updated in real time, the data decays.
III — What You Can Build With It
The API has a host of endpoints covering dilution ratings, offerings, registrations, Nasdaq compliance, float, ownership, and bank agreements. Here are three things you can build today that would have taken a team of analysts to assemble manually.
1. A Dilution Risk Monitor

A watchlist dashboard that surfaces dilution warning signs across your portfolio in real time.
For each ticker, you get the overall dilution risk rating, active shelf registrations with remaining capacity, Nasdaq compliance deficiencies, and a cash runway calculation that tells you when the company will need to raise. Alert on things like cash dropping below 6 months, a new shelf going effective, or ATM capacity getting large relative to float.
2. Backtest Low-Float Gappers
Use the historical float endpoint to check performance on historical gappers under 1m float. Use the news endpoint 'tags' to see how gappers performed under certain news.
3. A One-Click Due Diligence Report
Take any ticker and generate a full due diligence report in seconds, ownership concentration, float history, reverse split count, ROFR agreements with active banks, upcoming lockup expiration… continue on X ↗
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NSF America's Seed Fund Reopens With Up to $1.55M in Grants

NSF America's Seed Fund Reopens With Up to $1.55M in Grants

Ksenia Moskalenko reports that the NSF America's Seed Fund has reopened after reauthorization, offering non-dilutive funding up to $1.55M across three tracks. The post lists eligibility rules, a 3-page pitch step, and a November 4 full-proposal deadline.

Original post · 1 min read
The US government will give your startup up to $1.55M and take 0% equity.

@NSF's America's Seed Fund is open again after Congress reauthorized it in April.

Three tracks:
- Phase I: up to $305K to prove the idea
- Phase II: up to $1.25M to build it
- Fast-Track: up to $1.55M, both phases in one go

Who can apply:
- US-based startups with 500 or fewer employees
- 51%+ owned by US citizens or permanent residents
- Not majority owned by VCs
- All the work done in the US

How it works:
- Send a 3-page Project Pitch first
- NSF invites the best ones to submit a full proposal
- Next full proposal deadline: Nov 4

Phase I funding rates have run about 10 to 20%. It's work, but nobody takes your cap table.

Application link 👉 seedfund.nsf.gov

Bookmark and tag a tech founder who needs this.
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Nous Research Raises $90 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation for Hermes Agent

Nikhil Pahwa congratulates Nous Research on a reported $90 million raise at a $1.5 billion valuation after its open-source Hermes agent was downloaded 22.7 million times, with about $36 million in annualized revenue by mid-September.

Original post · 1 min read
Well deserved! Congrats @NousResearch @Teknium @Kshitijjkapoor . You've built something amazing here. Thank you!
Choblin @choblin29
🚨BREAKING: Nous Research has raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation after its open-source Hermes agent exploded in usage.

Hermes has been downloaded 22.7 million times since February.

Nous was at roughly $36 million in annualized revenue by mid-September. It expects to pass $100 million later this year.
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Anthropic Expands Claude Startups Program to More Founders

Anthropic Expands Claude Startups Program to More Founders▶

Claude announces that its Startups program is expanding, offering members a year of Claude Team, API credits, partner tool offers and office hours with Anthropic's Applied AI team. The announcement includes a video.

Original post · 1 min read
The Claude Startups program is expanding to more founders.

Members can get a year of Claude Team, API credits, special offers on the tools a startup runs on, and office hours with Anthropic’s Applied AI team.
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Andreessen Horowitz Maps Where Startups Can Win in Consumer AI

Andreessen Horowitz Maps Where Startups Can Win in Consumer AI

Olivia Moore shares an a16z map identifying search, creative tools and productivity as areas where early consumer AI winners are emerging, while social, marketplaces, travel, finance and other categories remain open.

Original post · 1 min read
Where can startups win in consumer AI?

We @a16z mapped out where we see early winners - search, creative tools, productivity 👇

We're still waiting for winners everywhere else - social, marketplaces, travel, finance, hiring, dating, gaming, media, and more
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Qatar Offers Up to $5.5 Million to Lure Startups to Doha

Qatar Offers Up to $5.5 Million to Lure Startups to Doha

Aakash Gupta analyzes the Startup Qatar Investment Program, backed by Qatar Development Bank, which offers equity checks up to $5.5M with mandatory relocation, comparing it to Singapore's 1960s incentive playbook and noting retention as the open challenge. He quotes Suraj Sharma's summary of the two tracks and perks.

Original post · 2 min read
Qatar's entire startup ecosystem raised $11M in venture capital in 2023. This new program writes single checks of $5.5M. One company can now land half the country's annual VC flow just by agreeing to move to Doha.

Here's the mechanism underneath it. Cities with real startup density charge you to be there. San Francisco collects it in rent, New York collects it in salaries, and founders pay gladly because the customers, talent, and capital are all within a mile. Cities without that density have to run the trade in reverse. They pay you.

So the $5.5M is Doha putting a price on the network effects it doesn't have yet.

The regional race explains the urgency. Saudi Arabia pulled in $1.4B of venture funding in 2023, 52% of all MENA. The UAE led the region in deal count. Qatar took 6% of deals. In a three-country contest for Gulf tech, third place pays cash.

The structure shows how targeted this is. It's equity, drawn from a $100M fund managed by Qatar Development Bank, disbursed on milestones, and relocation is mandatory. A $100M fund writing checks up to $5.5M caps out around 18 companies at the top track. They're running an auction for a few dozen anchor startups, and the visas and subsidized housing exist to tip founders who are already indifferent between Gulf cities.

This playbook has worked before. Singapore's Economic Development Board spent the late 1960s paying companies to show up, and Texas Instruments went from decision to production in Singapore in about 50 days in 1968. GDP per capita there was around $500 at the time. Today it's roughly $90,000.

The unsolved part is retention. Checks get companies to land. Density is what makes them stay, and density only arrives after enough checks pile up in the same place at the same time. Singapore cleared that threshold. Qatar is betting $100M it can too.
Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14
Up to $5.5M to move your startup to Qatar.

Just an MVP gets you in the door.

The Startup Qatar Investment Program (backed by QDB) funds tech startups to launch or expand in Qatar.

Two tracks:
START: up to $1.1M if you have a proof of concept or MVP
GROW: up to $5.5M if you're already established and expanding

What else you get:
- Entrepreneur visa + flexible work visa
- Registration and license fees waived
- Subsidized housing
- Subsidized co-working space
- Access to R&D and innovation grants
- Mentoring, training + help hiring talent and interns
- Your product showcased at exhibitions
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Qatar Startup Program Offers Up to $5.5M to Tech Firms Relocating

Qatar Startup Program Offers Up to $5.5M to Tech Firms Relocating

Suraj Sharma shares details of the Startup Qatar Investment Program, backed by QDB, offering up to $1.1M to early-stage startups and up to $5.5M to established firms expanding to Qatar, along with visas, fee waivers and subsidized housing and co-working space. Eligible sectors include AI, fintech and climate tech.

Original post · 1 min read
Up to $5.5M to move your startup to Qatar.

Just an MVP gets you in the door.

The Startup Qatar Investment Program (backed by QDB) funds tech startups to launch or expand in Qatar.

Two tracks:
START: up to $1.1M if you have a proof of concept or MVP
GROW: up to $5.5M if you're already established and expanding

What else you get:
- Entrepreneur visa + flexible work visa
- Registration and license fees waived
- Subsidized housing
- Subsidized co-working space
- Access to R&D and innovation grants
- Mentoring, training + help hiring talent and interns
- Your product showcased at exhibitions

Sectors they want:
- AI & ML, B2B SaaS, FinTech, HealthTech, Cybersecurity, Climate Tech, Robotics + more
- Not on the list? It's open to any innovative startup

Apply link below 👇
startupqatar.qa/en/investment-program

Bookmark this + tag a founder looking for a new market.
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