What Just Got Funded (And Why It Matters)

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If you’re looking for startup ideas, the internet gives you too much opinion and not enough signal.

Twitter gives you hot takes.
TechCrunch gives you stories after the outcome is decided.
Pitch decks give you the best possible version of reality.

What we actually wanted was something simpler:

Where is real money being committed right now?

So we built a new tool called whofiled.com 

First: what is a Form D?

A Form D is a filing companies are required to submit to the SEC when they raise private capital.

Any time a startup raises a seed round, Series A, or beyond from angels or venture funds, it files a Form D.

That filing includes:

• The company name

• When the round was filed

• How much money was raised

• The stage (Seed, Series A, etc.)

• Whether this is a first raise or a follow-on round

It’s not marketing.
It’s not storytelling.
It’s compliance.

Which is exactly why it’s useful.

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Why Form D data is a goldmine for ideas

Founders don’t file Form Ds for fun.

They do it because:

• A real problem existed

• Someone was willing to fund a solution

• The company crossed the line from “idea” to “commitment”

When you look at Form D filings day by day, you’re not seeing finished companies.
You’re seeing the earliest version of what investors believe might matter.

That’s the moment most people miss.

What whofiled.com does

whofiled.com takes raw Form D data and turns it into something usable.

Instead of digging through SEC tables, you can:

• See the latest startups that just raised

• Understand what they’re building in plain English

• Compare stages and dollar amounts

• Spot patterns across categories before they’re obvious

On a single day, you might see:

• A seed-stage company turning everyday purchases into in-game currency

• A premium bottled water brand raising millions in glass bottles

• Multiple healthcare startups applying AI to narrow, boring workflows

• A retirement platform raising a massive round

That mix is the point.

How this leads to startup ideas

The goal isn’t to copy any of these companies.

The goal is to ask better questions:

• Why this problem, right now?

• Why this amount of capital?

• Why this buyer instead of another?

• What assumption is baked into this model?

• Who is being ignored?

Most great startup ideas aren’t new problems.
They’re old problems being approached from a slightly different angle.

Form D data shows you which angles are already being tested.

The bigger insight

Startup ideas don’t appear out of nowhere.

They show up as:

• Clusters

• Repeats

• Weird outliers

• Overfunded niches

• Underserved users

whofiled.com lets you see those patterns before they become narratives.

Before the press.
Before the podcasts.
Before everyone agrees it was obvious.

The full NTE stack

Zoom out and this is really what we’re building.

NTE Pro is the raw inventory - 6,500+ startup ideas (and growing) you can browse when you want breadth and pattern recognition.

NTE Zero to One is what you use when one idea won’t leave your head and you want to turn it into a real MVP plan instead of another Notion doc.

EpisodeRecap is for a different kind of signal - podcasts are full of problems, half-formed insights, and “wait… that’s interesting” moments, and we built a way to systematically extract ideas from them instead of hoping you remember them later.

And now whofiled is the newest layer: real-time signal on what’s actually getting funded, so you can see where conviction already exists and ask better questions about what’s missing.

Different inputs. Same goal.

Fewer vibe-based ideas.
More ideas grounded in reality.

And we’re not done.

We’re going to keep building tools like this, things we wish existed when we were trying to decide what to work on, not just how to work.

If there’s a signal you wish you had, a dataset you keep wanting to peek at, or a tool you think should exist for idea discovery… just reply and tell us.

Some of the best things we’ve built started as,
“Why doesn’t this exist yet?”