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How to find startups that just raised money and are hiring

By Find your role first team · October 18, 2026, 12:00 UTC

To find startups that just raised money and are hiring, start from the raise and then check the company's own careers site. In the US, most raises show up as an SEC Form D filing within 15 days of the first sale, often before the press release.

Find your role first's raises page lists every Form D raise in tech and business each day and links each company to its open roles.

Why funding is an early signal

A startup that closes a round usually has a hiring plan attached to it. The money arrives, the plan gets approved, and the first roles go up over the next few weeks.

If you see the raise first, you can be early in two ways: apply the day the role goes live, or write to the founder before it does.

Where raises show up

• SEC Form D. US companies raising money privately usually file one within 15 days of the first sale of securities. EDGAR full-text search is free and filters by date.
• News. TechCrunch, Axios Pro Rata and Fortune's Term Sheet cover the bigger rounds. Plenty of seed rounds never make the news, which is why the filings catch more.

Some days it's one or two filings in tech and business, some days far more. On Friday, October 9, 2026, for example, 30 companies filed raises totaling $263.7 million, led by Athanor Compute's $125 million.

What a Form D does and doesn't tell you

It gives the company's legal name, the amount sold, the total offering and the date of first sale. It doesn't give a valuation, and it doesn't name the round.

So when you see "Series A" next to a filing on our pages, that's an estimate from the company's filing history, and it never runs ahead of it: a company's first-ever filing reads as Series A at most. Treat round names as a rough guide.

From raise to role

1. Open the day's post on /raises.
2. Click a company to see its full funding history and whether it has open roles right now.
3. If it's hiring, the company page lists the newest roles and you can follow it. You get an email within about 15 minutes of its next posting.
4. If it isn't hiring yet, bookmark its page. You can follow it once its first role is up.

Questions

Do all startups file a Form D?

No. Many do, because it's how they use the private-offering exemptions. Some skip it or file late, and companies outside the US don't file one at all.

Should I reach out before a role is posted?

It can work. A short note right after the raise, with one specific thing you'd work on, is easier to answer than an application in a queue.

Is the raises page free?

Yes. Browsing /raises and every company's funding history is free and needs no sign-in.