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Fund formation,
counted from the filings.
Every private fund that raises capital files a Form D with the SEC. We ingest all of them daily and publish what they show — monthly and quarterly, free to read and free to cite.
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1,997
New fund filings in June 2026
+14.6% vs. prior month
815
Of those, venture capital funds
+10.3% vs. prior month
15
Genuinely first-time managers at $10M+
After screening out follow-on funds
$45.5B
Combined target offerings disclosed
48.8% filed no target at all
June 2026 figures, computed from SEC Form D filings ingested daily. Updated with every report.
The Reports
Two cadences, one dataset.
Each report answers a different question about the same filings: what happened last month, and what's shifting this quarter.
Monthly · June 2026
VC Filings Report
Every new pooled-fund filing from last month: 1,997 funds, the ten largest raises, and the first-time managers behind them.
New issue every month
Read it →Quarterly · Q2 2026
State of Emerging Fund Formation
The deep quarterly cut: micro-fund economics, first-time manager formation, and what the median new 'VC fund' actually targets.
New issue every quarter
Read it →Why These Are Free
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Every fund that raises capital under Regulation D files a Form D with the SEC. That record is public — it's just scattered across tens of thousands of individual filings that nobody has the time to aggregate.
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Methodology
How we count.
The reports are only worth citing if the method holds up, so here it is in full.
Primary sources only
Every figure traces to an SEC Form D filing. We ingest EDGAR daily into our own warehouse rather than citing someone else's summary.
Reproducible by script
Reports are generated from the warehouse by code, not written by hand. If a number can't be computed from the filings, it doesn't appear.
Limits stated plainly
Form D discloses target offering and amount sold at filing — not final fund size. We report those separately and say so, every time.
Coverage and limits. The warehouse covers every Form D filing from 2024-07-01 to 2026-07-17. First-time-manager counts are based on SEC registrant identifiers, so they count fund vehicles rather than management firms, and the lookback is bounded by the warehouse start date. Amendments are excluded from new-filing counts.
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Questions
Common questions about the data.
Are the reports really free?
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Where does the data come from?
Form D filings submitted to the SEC, which private funds must file when they raise capital under Regulation D. We ingest EDGAR daily into our own warehouse — covering every filing from 2024-07-01 to 2026-07-17 — and compute every statistic from that dataset.
How often are new reports published?
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Can I cite these numbers in my own work?
Please do. Cite VC Beast and link to the specific report — that's the whole point of publishing them. If you need a cut of the data we haven't published, email reports@vcbeast.com and we'll tell you whether the warehouse can answer it.
Why does Form D data understate or overstate fund sizes?
Form D captures a fund's target offering at the moment of filing and the amount sold to date — not the final close. Roughly half of filings declare an indefinite target. We never present either figure as a final fund size, and each report's methodology section spells out what the numbers can and cannot support.
Start with last month's filings.
1,997 new funds filed in June 2026. Here is who they were and what they're raising.
Read the June 2026 report→