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Best equity crowdfunding deal trackers, compared (we make one of them)

Q: Is there a free equity crowdfunding deal tracker?

Yes, at different depths. EDGAR's feed is free for US filings, KingsCrowd's July 2025 filing describes a free tier with basic analytics on every Reg CF company, and Raise Sonar's free plan is the Weekly Sonar and a delayed feed.

As of 5 Nov 2026, none of the 8 deal trackers and feeds compared does everything: KingsCrowd rates US raises, SEC EDGAR is the free primary record of US filings, and a platform's own emails stop at its own raises. Raise Sonar, which publishes this comparison, follows raises across the US, UK, EU and Australia with email alerts, and rates none of them.

Not investment advice. Early-stage investing is high-risk and illiquid; you may lose all the capital you invest.

Some points here have not been confirmed against a primary source. Each is marked “Not yet verified”, and this page stays out of search until they are.

By Raise Sonar. Published 5 Nov 2026.

Tracker	Coverage	Regions	Alerts	Price	Data depth	Best for
KingsCrowd	All Reg CF and Reg A deals (opens in a new tab), limited Rule 506(c), per its July 2025 filing	US (opens in a new tab)	Weekly emails (opens in a new tab) on the latest deals	Not yet verified Free, or Edge at $15 a month or $150 a year, on its plans page (opens in a new tab)	Ratings, valuations and data back to 2016 (opens in a new tab), with data sold as CSV or API	US investors who want ratings and research
Crowdonomics	Not yet verified Open Reg CF and Reg A rounds (opens in a new tab) across StartEngine, Wefunder, Republic and more	Not yet verified US	Not yet verified Daily new-deal alerts on the free plan (opens in a new tab), and a weekly recap	Not yet verified Free, or $8 a month (opens in a new tab) with a 14-day trial	Not yet verified Financials and valuation ratios on the paid plan (opens in a new tab)	Not yet verified US investors who want a low-cost daily list
SEC EDGAR	Every Reg CF Form C (opens in a new tab), its amendments and updates, and other SEC filings	US	RSS or Atom by form type (opens in a new tab), with no email for company filings	Free (opens in a new tab)	Full filings, searchable since 2001 (opens in a new tab)	Anyone who wants the primary record and will read filings
Wefunder	Its own raises, under Reg CF and Reg D (opens in a new tab)	US	Email on companies you backed or watch (opens in a new tab), and when someone you follow invests (opens in a new tab)	VIP is $295 a year (opens in a new tab), optional	Not yet verified The raise's own page, with its Form C (opens in a new tab)	Investors already on Wefunder
StartEngine	Its own raises, under Reg CF, Reg A+ and Reg D (opens in a new tab)	US	A newsletter (opens in a new tab), updates on your watchlist (opens in a new tab) and, with Venture Club, launch emails (opens in a new tab)	Venture Club is $275 a year (opens in a new tab), optional	Not yet verified The raise's own page, with its Form C (opens in a new tab)	Investors already on StartEngine
Republic	Not yet verified Its own raises	Not yet verified US, with Republic Europe for the UK and Europe	Not yet verified New deals by email (opens in a new tab), and priority lists per campaign (opens in a new tab) in Europe	Not yet verified No charge found for these emails	Not yet verified The raise's own page	Not yet verified Investors already on Republic
Crowdcube	Not yet verified Its own raises	Not yet verified UK	Not yet verified New pitches, and a pitch's milestones and updates if you follow it (opens in a new tab)	Not yet verified No charge found for these emails	Not yet verified The pitch's own page	Not yet verified Investors already on Crowdcube
Raise Sonar (we make this)	713 live raises on 26 platforms, plus SEC EDGAR	12 countries, including the US, UK, EU members, Canada and Australia	Email only. Launch, closing, near-cap, perk-expiry and term-change alerts on paid plans; a weekly email on Free	Free; Alerts $15 a month or $120 a year; Pro $35 or $290, in US dollars	Terms as each source states them, with gaps listed and stated financials on Pro. No ratings	Following several platforms or countries, with launch and closing alerts

When should you use which?

These do different jobs, so the answer depends on the job. Raise Sonar is the one row we sell, so read this list knowing that. Our editorial policy sets out how we are paid.

For a view on a deal: KingsCrowd. Its July 2025 filing (opens in a new tab) describes quantitative ratings across Reg CF and Reg A deals, on price, team, market, differentiators and performance, and analyst reports on a select set.
For the primary record at no cost: SEC EDGAR. Every Reg CF issuer must file its Form C there (opens in a new tab), and anyone can read it for free (opens in a new tab).
Not yet verified For a low-cost daily list of new US deals: Crowdonomics. Its plans page (opens in a new tab) lists daily new-deal alerts on the free plan.
For perks on one platform: that platform. Wefunder VIP (opens in a new tab) and StartEngine's Venture Club (opens in a new tab) sell what no tracker can, such as better terms from participating companies and priority on waitlists.
For your own dataset or tool: EDGAR or a data licence. EDGAR's feed (opens in a new tab) is free, and KingsCrowd sells its data as CSV or API (opens in a new tab).
For data on UK, German or Irish companies generally: Beauhurst. It tracks private companies (opens in a new tab) rather than raises, at prices it does not publish (opens in a new tab).
For several platforms or countries at once, with timing alerts: Raise Sonar. A single rule can watch raises across 26 platforms, with reminders before each closes, on a paid plan.

Where are the others stronger than Raise Sonar?

In several places, and our methodology lists more gaps than these. The ones that matter most if you are choosing:

Judgement. Raise Sonar does not rate or recommend raises, and does not investigate companies. If you want someone's view of a deal, it will not give you one.
History. KingsCrowd's data goes back to 2016 (opens in a new tab). Raise Sonar's readings of a raise start when its poll first reads it, and that began in 2026.
Depth on US companies. KingsCrowd reports standardized financial data on nearly 10,000 private companies (opens in a new tab). Raise Sonar shows what a source states, and its list of known gaps names the fields many sources do not give it.
Being first and complete on US filings. A filing reaches EDGAR before any tracker can pick it up, and Raise Sonar reads on a schedule. EDGAR also holds every document in a filing (opens in a new tab), where Raise Sonar keeps selected fields.
Not yet verified Price. Crowdonomics lists (opens in a new tab) daily alerts on a free plan and a paid plan at $8 a month, below Raise Sonar's $15. On Raise Sonar's free plan, alerts are not included.
Access to the deal. An alert gets you no better terms. StartEngine's Venture Club (opens in a new tab) lists 48-hour early access to StartEngine Private launches and bonus shares on participating offerings, and Wefunder VIP (opens in a new tab) lists about 10% better terms from participating companies.
Ways to receive it. Raise Sonar's alerts are email only, and an API is by request. EDGAR has RSS and Atom (opens in a new tab), and KingsCrowd sells API access (opens in a new tab).

Where is Raise Sonar stronger?

Its case is narrower than that list. It puts raises from 26 platforms in 12 countries in one feed, with eligibility for your country on every raise, and its alerts go past launch to closing reminders, near-cap, perk-expiry and term changes. The directory lists what it reads, and a raise's rules on who can invest differ by platform.

Not yet verified No other source read for this guide describes those alerts across platforms in both the US and Europe. Several sites could not be read in full, so this may understate them.

Why can't a platform's emails cover the whole market?

Because of how Reg CF works. A raise runs exclusively through one intermediary's platform (opens in a new tab), and an issuer may not use more than one, so Wefunder's list cannot show a StartEngine raise. The SEC counts 9,851 Reg CF offerings (opens in a new tab) from 16 May 2016 to 30 Jun 2026, across every portal.

What each platform sends still matters, as it comes with an account there. StartEngine says all its users are subscribed to its newsletter (opens in a new tab), and a company's updates go to its investors and followers (opens in a new tab). Wefunder sends updates from companies you backed or watch (opens in a new tab), and lets you choose categories of notification.

Not yet verified Wefunder also appears to send a weekly newsletter with a section on new companies, known to us only from a help page that no longer loads.

Not yet verified Republic's news page (opens in a new tab) invites readers to get new deals by email, and its real estate post (opens in a new tab) describes regular launch emails. Crowdcube's older post (opens in a new tab) describes alerts when a pitch opens. Neither site could be read directly for this guide.

How do you follow Form C filings on EDGAR for free?

The SEC lets you subscribe to latest filings by form type (opens in a new tab). This feed (opens in a new tab) is the one for Form C, and it goes in any feed reader.

When we read the feed (opens in a new tab) on 5 Nov 2026 it returned C, C/A, C-U, C-AR and C-W, along with CERT and CFPORTAL/A filings that are not Form Cs, so expect some noise. Each entry gives the form, company, filing date and a link, with no amount or deadline. For those, open the filing and read the Form C.

The SEC says email updates are not available for company filings (opens in a new tab). Full-text search covers filings since 2001 (opens in a new tab), and neither page describes a saved search or alert for it. A script must declare a user agent and stay under 10 requests a second (opens in a new tab).

What other sources are there?

CrowdSpace. A free directory (opens in a new tab) of platforms worldwide, not a list of equity raises, with a weekly news digest.
Not yet verified P2PMarketData. A deal search (opens in a new tab) centred on Europe, with a free monthly report.
Not yet verified Crowdfund Insider. Free trade news (opens in a new tab) with a weekly Form C index, which counts initial filings at their as-filed amounts, not money raised.
Apify scrapers. Community-built readers of EDGAR, one from $2 per 1,000 items (opens in a new tab) and another from $30 per 1,000 deals (opens in a new tab). They return data for you to handle, and neither page describes built-in alerts.

What commercial interests should you know about?

Most sources here have one, ours included, and each is worth reading with that in mind:

Raise Sonar. We make it. It sells paid plans, data and API access, and sponsored blocks, and that page says whether any platform pays us and that we may hold investments in companies shown on this site.
KingsCrowd. Its July 2025 filing (opens in a new tab) lists subscriptions, data sales including to portals such as StartEngine, services for founders, and a fund investing in companies it rates. It also says its ratings are independent of the companies it covers, and states a policy of not letting issuers it rates, or platforms offering them, sponsor its newsletter.
Platforms. A Form C states what the platform is paid (opens in a new tab) for a raise. StartEngine says (opens in a new tab) Venture Club's fee gives it a conflict of interest.
SEC EDGAR. An official record, not a view. The form itself says (opens in a new tab) the SEC does not pass on the merits of any offering.

Whichever you use, a listing is not a recommendation, and how to evaluate a crowdfunding deal sets out the checks that come after it.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free equity crowdfunding deal tracker?

Yes, at different depths. EDGAR's feed (opens in a new tab) is free for US filings, KingsCrowd's July 2025 filing (opens in a new tab) describes a free tier with basic analytics on every Reg CF company, and Raise Sonar's free plan is the Weekly Sonar and a delayed feed.

Which trackers cover the UK and Europe?

Raise Sonar's directory lists the platforms it reads there. A platform's own emails cover only its own raises. Beauhurst (opens in a new tab) covers UK, German and Irish private companies generally, and KingsCrowd's July 2025 filing (opens in a new tab) describes the UK as a market it may look at later.

Does Raise Sonar rate or pick raises?

No. It does not rate or recommend raises, and states each raise's figures as its source states them. For ratings, KingsCrowd's July 2025 filing (opens in a new tab) describes what it offers.

Can a tracker get you in ahead of a platform's own members?

Not on the terms a platform sells. StartEngine's Venture Club (opens in a new tab) lists 48-hour early access to StartEngine Private launches, which is given by the platform, so no outside tracker can match it.

How current is this comparison?

Each source in the list on this page carries the day it was read, and prices and plans change, so check the source before paying for anything. Ours are on our pricing page.

Sources

About the author

Raise Sonar is an information service that tracks equity crowdfunding raises and is not a broker-dealer, funding portal or crowdfunding service provider. Our guides are researched from primary sources, linked above, and a point we could not confirm on one is marked. About Raise Sonar