HN,<p>Form Ds are filed with the SEC by startups, hedge funds, and growing companies to announce the completion of fundings (equity and debt) but there's no way to search for companies near you. I built a Google maps visualizer that takes the daily SEC filings and overlays them on Google maps.<p>For example of a Form D, here's SeatGeek's (current top story on HN) Form D filings:<p><a href="http://www.formds.com/issuers/seatgeek-inc" rel="nofollow">http://www.formds.com/issuers/seatgeek-inc</a><p>I'd love feedback on my Google Maps visualization.<p>Things I know I need to add:<p>Ability to zoom in on an area and see filings from the last week or month.<p>Ability to save the areas you're interested in (instead of the whole US loading every time)<p>Tech thing to change:<p>I'm writing out the javascript using Rails' erb instead of a javascript function pulling from a JSON object. I just saw the SeatGeek guys use a JSON object + function for their raphael visualization and realized that that's what I should be doing...<p>Thanks for any feedback!
Wow, Fitbit just did a nearly $8MM round - unless Brad Feld was already an investor, I'm guessing led by Foundry?<p>Form Ds are traditionally a pain to go through - you could probably make this a subscription service for tech journalists.
Some reactions:<p>- works well on iPad<p>- should have a by-date visualization<p>- by-industry should show counts and also allow date filtering.<p>- good name<p>- is there historical data?<p>Feel free to drop a line for further feedback.
See also <a href="http://stealthmodewatch.com" rel="nofollow">http://stealthmodewatch.com</a> -- reported here a while ago but didn't get much attention.<p>Love the info and focus domain, not crazy about the map-based presentation. Except to the coarseness of metro-region, state, or region, the geography is the least interesting aspect of this info, so the click-one-pin-at-a-time presentation is very limiting.<p>More ways to group the info and show comparables over a longer period together would be very interesting.