Form D Industries API: The industry groups a Form D filer selects (pooled investment fund — SEC Form D
The industry groups a Form D filer selects (pooled investment fund, biotechnology, commercial real estate and the rest) with what each covers. Free, no key.
Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.
How do you call it?
GET /v1/sec/formd/industries — product id
sec_formd_industries. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=sec_formd_industries.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/formd/industries?q=fund"Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/formd/industries?q=fund · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_formd_industries
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_formd_industries.
as_of | 2026-09-03T14:30:00Z |
|---|---|
count | 1 |
note | Form D Item 4 industry taxonomy. Codes are the normalized form of the label a filer selects; see /v1/sec/formd and its feeds for the filings themselves. |
disclaimer | Derived from public SEC EDGAR filings; not investment advice. |
refresh_after | 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z |
industries
| code | name | description |
|---|---|---|
| pooled_investment_fund | Banking & Financial Services — Pooled Investment Fund | Funds: VC, PE, hedge; usually paired with a 3(c)(1)/3(c)(7) exclusion. |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-09-03T14:30:00Z",
"count": 1,
"industries": [
{
"code": "pooled_investment_fund",
"name": "Banking & Financial Services \u2014 Pooled Investment Fund",
"description": "Funds: VC, PE, hedge; usually paired with a 3(c)(1)/3(c)(7) exclusion."
}
],
"note": "Form D Item 4 industry taxonomy. Codes are the normalized form of the label a filer selects; see /v1/sec/formd and its feeds for the filings themselves.",
"disclaimer": "Derived from public SEC EDGAR filings; not investment advice.",
"refresh_after": "2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z"
}How fresh is it, and where does the data come from?
The fastest source behind this answer can change every 15 minutes, so every response carries a refresh_after timestamp — right now it would be 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z. Schedule the next call on that value rather than on a guess.
- SEC EDGAR (US federal public domain) — upstream:
https://efts.sec.gov
Method version 0.1.0 ·
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every response carries a result_id you can resolve at
/v1/provenance.
When should you use it?
You are classifying or filtering private offerings by industry.
What you skip building
- reading the Form D instructions
- inventing industry labels
When should you not use it?
The exemption claimed — /v1/sec/formd/exemptions decodes that.
Where else can you find this?
- Catalog entry (JSON, free)
- OpenAPI schema — input and output types, prices, the 402 flow
- llms.txt — every product in one plain-text document