Africa Startup Funding Tracker

Clean, structured African startup funding rounds from TechCabal's public funding feed — one record per deal, extracted from feed fields only. The article page is never fetched; any field the feed does not carry is left null.

Each funding_round record carries: company, the full headline, amount (value + currency + how it appeared), round stage, location, investors named in the excerpt, announcement time, source, and the canonical article link.

What it does

• Reads TechCabal's public funding-category RSS feed and keeps only genuine single-company funding rounds — a headline with a raise verb, a parseable amount, and a real company subject.
• Rejects market round-ups. Aggregate headlines ("$1.44 billion raised in H1", "African startups raise $700M") name no single company, so they are skipped and never billed — only real company raises (e.g. "Spiro secures $55 million") become records.
• Lets you bound a run by count (maxRecords) or by filters (minAmount, currencies, locationContains).
• Reads feed fields only — it never opens the article page (so paywalls are irrelevant).
• If the feed is unreachable or unparseable it stops loudly — a broken source is never delivered as an empty success.

Pricing

Event	Price (USD)
apify-actor-start	$0.02
funding_round_record	$0.05

apify-actor-start is charged once per run by the platform. funding_round_record is charged once per unique funding round delivered, and drops with volume ($0.05 → $0.045 → $0.04 → $0.0335). Aggregates, duplicates, filtered-out rounds, and non-funding posts bill nothing; a source outage bills nothing.

Input

• maxRecords — cap on funding records delivered (buyer-requested bound; default 100).
• minAmount — minimum round amount, in the round's own currency (amounts are not FX-converted).
• currencies — restrict to currency codes (e.g. USD, NGN).
• locationContains — restrict to matching locations/country tags.
• minRequestIntervalSec — self-throttle between requests (default 1s).

Notes

Amounts are reported as published, in the round's own currency, and are not converted between currencies. Company and location are best-effort parses of the headline; the full title is always retained so nothing is lost.