India Startup Funding Tracker — VC & Seed Rounds Scraper 🇮🇳

Track India startup funding rounds as they hit the news — startup name, amount (normalised to USD), round type, investors, sector, date, and source link — aggregated from India's leading startup-media RSS feeds (Inc42 and YourStory). Built for VC analysts, founders, data teams, and AI agents that want a clean, structured funding feed instead of scraping news sites by hand. Watch mode turns it into a standing "new India funding rounds" alert.

Honest positioning: this is a news-based funding aggregator, not an official-filings or regulatory product. Unlike the US (where SEC Form D is public), there is no free official India funding-filing feed — so the accurate, timely signal is startup-press coverage. Amounts and investors are extracted from headlines and can lag or round vs. a company's own disclosure. Not investment advice.

📊 What you get

One record per funding round:

• startupName — the funded company (e.g. Reo.Dev, Neo Group)
• amountUsd — amount normalised to USD (₹ crore converted at 1 Cr ≈ $120,000; $X Mn/Bn taken as-is)
• amountOriginal — the amount exactly as reported (e.g. $11 Mn, ₹350 Cr)
• roundType — pre-seed / seed / series A–F / bridge / debt / angel / growth (when stated)
• investors — array parsed from "led by" / "backed by" (e.g. ["Peak XV Partners"])
• sector — the article's category tag (e.g. fintech, SaaS, D2C)
• date — publish date of the source article
• sourceUrl — the original article link
• source — Inc42 or YourStory
• title, scraped_at

Sample output

{
  "startupName": "Reo.Dev",
  "amountUsd": 11000000,
  "amountOriginal": "$11 Mn",
  "roundType": "seed",
  "investors": ["Innovation Endeavors"],
  "sector": "SaaS",
  "date": "Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:30:34 +0000",
  "title": "JFS' Profitability Flex, Reo.Dev Bags $11 Mn & More",
  "sourceUrl": "https://inc42.com/buzz/jfs-profitability-flex-reo-dev-bags-11-mn-more/",
  "source": "Inc42",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-17T09:15:02Z"
}

💵 Pricing

Pay-per-result, no subscription:

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.01
Funding round record	$0.08 each
Watch-check (per scheduled watch run)	$0.05

Worked example: a run that returns 25 funding rounds = 1 start ($0.01) + 25 records × $0.08 ($2.00) = $2.01. A daily watch run that finds 2 new rounds = $0.05 watch-check + 2 × $0.08 = $0.21. A quiet watch day with 0 new rounds = just the $0.05 watch-check.

⏰ Watch mode — new-round alerts

Turn on watchMode and put the actor on a schedule. The first run seeds a baseline and emits nothing; every later run emits only new funding rounds since the last run (deduped on sourceUrl, falling back to a startup+amount+date hash). Perfect for a standing "new India funding rounds" feed into Slack, a sheet, or an agent.

{ "keyword": "fintech", "minAmountUsd": 5000000, "watchMode": true, "watchLabel": "fintech-5m" }

🤖 Use with AI agents

Returns clean JSON, so an agent can call it directly. Example task: "Pull today's India seed rounds over $2M in fintech and draft outreach notes to each founder." Works with MCP tool-calling and agentic (x402) payment flows — no API key required.

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/india-startup-funding-tracker/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"fintech","minAmountUsd":2000000,"maxResults":50}'

CLI

$apify call india-startup-funding-tracker --input '{"maxResults":100}'

🔗 Related NexGenData actors

• startup-funding-tracker — the global/US sibling (SEC Form D-backed funding signals). This India edition is its news-based counterpart.
• nse-bse-announcements — live NSE corporate announcements & regulatory filings (India).
• mca-company-registry — India company master data (CIN, directors, capital, status).
• india-trademark-search — Indian trademark records.
• gem-tenders-india — Indian government e-marketplace tenders.
• india-gst-verify — Indian GSTIN verification.
• india-court-cause-list — Indian court cause-list tracker.

❓ FAQ

Where does the data come from? Public RSS feeds from Inc42 (/feed/, /buzz/feed/) and YourStory (/feed) — the same headlines you'd read on their sites, parsed into structured funding-round records.

Is this official/regulatory data? No. India has no free public funding-filing equivalent of the US SEC Form D, so this is a news-based aggregator. Treat amounts and investors as press-reported.

How are amounts normalised? $X Mn/Bn is used as reported; ₹X Cr (crore) is converted to USD at a fixed 1 Cr ≈ $120,000. The original string is kept in amountOriginal.

How fresh is it? As fresh as the feeds — new rounds usually appear within minutes to hours of publication.

Does a blocked source bill me? No. If every feed is unreachable the run fails loud and charges nothing — you never pay for an empty "success". If some feeds respond and some are blocked, you get what's available plus a PARTIAL status message.

What if there's genuinely no funding news? If the feeds load cleanly but no headline matches the funding filter, the run succeeds with 0 records (a genuine empty) — that's not a failure.

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Data sourced from public startup-media RSS feeds. This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Inc42, YourStory, or any funded company. Amounts are press-reported and may differ from official figures. Not investment advice.