# 🇮🇳 India Startup Funding Tracker — Inc42 & YourStory (`nexgendata/india-startup-funding-tracker`) Actor

India startup funding rounds from Inc42 & YourStory — company, amount, round, investors. Watch mode for new rounds.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/india-startup-funding-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $80.00 / 1,000 funding round records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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```bash
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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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.

```json
{ "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

```bash
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

```bash
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.

***

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.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum funding-round records to return (1-500).

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Case-insensitive substring matched against the startup name, sector and headline (e.g. 'fintech', 'AI', 'Zepto'). Leave empty for all funding rounds.

## `minAmountUsd` (type: `integer`):

Drop rounds whose normalised USD amount is below this (e.g. 5000000 for $5M+). ₹ crore is converted at 1 Cr ≈ $120K. 0 = no minimum.

## `watchMode` (type: `boolean`):

When on, the first run seeds a baseline and emits nothing; later runs emit only NEW funding rounds since the last run (dedup key: sourceUrl, or startup+amount+date hash). Ideal on a schedule.

## `watchLabel` (type: `string`):

Names the watch baseline so multiple saved tasks keep independent state.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxResults": 25,
  "minAmountUsd": 0,
  "watchMode": false,
  "watchLabel": "default"
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxResults": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/india-startup-funding-tracker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxResults": 25 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/india-startup-funding-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxResults": 25
}' |
apify call nexgendata/india-startup-funding-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/india-startup-funding-tracker",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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        "x-build-id": "71Fi23w3j7Gt5s0e6"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
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                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
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                "tags": [
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                "parameters": [
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                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
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                "responses": {
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                        "type": "integer",
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                        "default": 25
                    },
                    "keyword": {
                        "title": "Keyword / sector filter (optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Case-insensitive substring matched against the startup name, sector and headline (e.g. 'fintech', 'AI', 'Zepto'). Leave empty for all funding rounds."
                    },
                    "minAmountUsd": {
                        "title": "Minimum amount (USD, optional)",
                        "minimum": 0,
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                        "description": "Drop rounds whose normalised USD amount is below this (e.g. 5000000 for $5M+). ₹ crore is converted at 1 Cr ≈ $120K. 0 = no minimum.",
                        "default": 0
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                        "default": false
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}
```