Editorial policy

As of 11 Nov 2026, Raise Sonar lists every public raise shown by the 26 platforms it reads and SEC EDGAR, and no company or platform can pay to have a raise listed, to move it up a list or to keep one off the site. The order of a list never depends on who has paid Raise Sonar.

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Which raises we list

We list every public raise our sources show us: the platforms in the platform directory and the Form C filings on SEC EDGAR. A company does not apply, and we do not pick among what a source shows. A raise appears because it exists, not because we have reviewed it.

Listing is never paid. No company or platform can pay to have a raise listed, to move it up a list, or to keep one off the site, and the order of a list never depends on who has paid us. The one thing a company can buy to promote its raise is the sponsored block described below, and buying it changes none of this.

“Every” has limits. A source can leave a raise out of what it publishes, and loans have a page but stay out of the live counts and alerts. The known gaps in our methodology list these.

A raise stays listed when it ends: its page stays up at the same address and says how it ended. We take a page down only if a raise is flagged as fraudulent or has to be removed for legal reasons.

A company whose raise we list can pay for a sponsored block in an issue of the Weekly Sonar. The block is headed “Sponsored” and ends with this line, with the company’s name in it, in both the HTML and the plain-text email:

Sponsored. Raise Sonar was paid by [company] for this placement. Not investment advice.

  • The company’s words. A short description in plain text, with no links, and a picture if it wants one. These are its words, not ours, and we have not verified them.
  • Our figures. The amount raised, progress, investor count and close date come from our own data when the issue goes out. The company cannot change them.
  • The button. It goes to the raise’s page on Raise Sonar. The company cannot set its own link.
  • Where it runs. In that issue’s email only. The issue’s page in our archive leaves it out, and we sell no placement anywhere else on the site.
  • What it does not buy. A block does not change a raise’s listing, its place in any list, or the alerts anyone gets, and it is not a recommendation. We can refuse a block, or pull one and refund it before the issue goes out.

Affiliate links

No platform pays us for the visitors or investors we send it, so no link on this site is a paid link.

If we sign a referral or affiliate agreement, the platform will be named here, and every link to it will say rel="sponsored nofollow" in the page’s HTML. An agreement would not change which raises we list, how we order them or which alerts we send.

A link to a raise on its platform carries utm_source=raisesonar, which lets the platform see that a visit came from here. It is not a referral code and earns us nothing.

Corrections

If something here looks wrong, write to support@raisesonar.com with the page’s address, what is wrong and, if you can, a source. We aim to reply within five business days. What happens next depends on where the mistake is:

  • We read it wrong. We fix it, and the raise’s page shows the right figure.
  • The source has it wrong. We report what a platform or filing states and do not adjust it, so the fix has to come from the source, and we read it from there. Our reply will say so.
  • Our own words are wrong. In a guide, a report or a page like this one, we correct the text.
  • It has already been sent. An alert or a Weekly Sonar that has gone out cannot be recalled, and an issue’s page in our archive keeps the email’s words and figures.

Not investment advice

Not investment advice. Raise Sonar is an information service and is not a broker-dealer, funding portal or crowdfunding service provider. Investments are made on the platforms we link to. Early-stage investing is high-risk and illiquid; you may lose all the capital you invest.

That covers everything here: raise pages, alerts, the Weekly Sonar, guides, reports and sponsored blocks. We do not rate or recommend raises, and we do not investigate companies or verify what they say. An alert, or a label such as “near cap” or “closing soon”, reports what a figure or a date did, not whether a raise is any good. Check every detail on the platform before you act on it. Our terms say this in full.

Data sources

Raise Sonar reads 26 platforms in 12 countries plus the Form C filings on SEC EDGAR. A raise’s figures are read from its platform or its filing, not typed by hand, and a figure a source does not state stays empty rather than being guessed.

Our methodology says how each source is read and how often, how changes are detected, and where the data falls short. The statistics page says what its totals leave out, and our guides and exits pages link the sources behind them.

One reading is our own wording: a raise page’s summary of the pitch is written by a language model from the text of the campaign page, and is labelled as our summary.

Conflicts of interest

Raise Sonar sells paid plans, data and API access, and the sponsored blocks described above. A company that buys a block is paying the service that reports on its raise, and our emails to the founders of listed raises can offer one. That is a conflict of interest, which is why a block is labelled, carries our figures and buys nothing else. The affiliate links section above says whether any platform pays us.

We, and people connected with us, may hold or make investments in companies shown on this site. This page does not list those holdings. They do not affect what we list or how we order it: both follow the same rules for every raise, and no rule looks at who holds what.

Anything we write ourselves, such as a guide, a report or an exits page, is not worked out by rules, so those rules do not protect it in the same way. Our guides and exits pages link their sources so you can check them.