💸 European Startup Funding Tracker

Clean, structured European startup funding rounds from EU-Startups' public feed — one record per deal, extracted from feed fields only. The article page is never fetched, so members-only ("CLUB") article bodies stay closed; 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/country, investors named in the excerpt, announcement time, source, and the canonical article link.

Output is one funding_round row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one funding round record (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.05 per funding round record). Source: www.eu-startups.com.

No login, no API key and no CAPTCHA solving are involved: the source is read logged-out with an identified contact User-Agent.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run fdT83eqLYJb6nkCsp on build 0.1.12 (2026-09-17), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

company	amount_display	location	investors	announced_at	announced_raw
UK Ryft	€23 million	European	["Gresham House Ventures"]	2026-09-17T14:21:31+00:00	Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:21:31 +0000
MicroLub	€8.7 million	Leeds	["Northern Gritstone"]	2026-09-17T10:44:53+00:00	Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:44:53 +0000
Münster-based syte	€9 million	Germany-Startups	["amberra"]	2026-09-17T08:01:17+00:00	Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:01:17 +0000
Reykjavík-based Treble	€15 million	Iceland-Startups	["Paladin Capital Group"]	2026-09-17T07:00:17+00:00	Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:00:17 +0000
Health Force	€4.2 million	Barcelona	["LUMO Labs"]	2026-09-17T05:52:13+00:00	Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:52:13 +0000
Expanse	€4.5 million	U.S. and U.K.	["Crane Venture Partners"]	2026-09-16T15:04:42+00:00	Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:04:42 +0000

The run finished with the status message: NORMAL: 6 funding records (0 duplicate mentions collapsed); funding_round_record billable=6

✅ What you get

A funding_round record (one per unique deal, extracted from public RSS feed fields only) or a source_receipt. The article page is never fetched; fields the feed does not carry are null.

Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):

• record_type (string) — Discriminator.
• company (string/null) — Best-effort company name parsed from the headline; full_title is always retained.
• full_title (string/null) — The feed item's title, verbatim.
• amount_value (number/null) — Parsed round amount in base units of amount_currency (not FX-converted).
• amount_currency (string/null) — Currency code of the amount (EUR/USD/GBP/...).
• amount_display (string/null) — The amount as it appeared in the feed (e.g. €385 million).
• round (string/null) — Round stage parsed from the feed (Seed, Series A, Debt, ...); null if absent.
• location (string/null) — Company location/country from the headline or country tags; null if absent.
• investors (array/null) — Investors named in the feed excerpt (led by / backed by); may be empty.
• announced_at (string/null) — Publication time of the announcement (ISO 8601).
• announced_raw (string/null) — Original RFC-822 pubDate string from the feed.
• source (string/null) — Which feed the item came from.
• source_url (string/null) — Canonical article link from the feed (not fetched).
• guid (string/null) — Feed GUID / link used for within-source identity.
• categories (array/null) — Feed category tags for the item.
• reported_by (array/null) — All sources that reported this deal (cross-source dedupe).
• cross_source_confirmed (boolean/null) — True when more than one source reported the same deal.
• status (integer/null) — source_receipt: HTTP fetch status.
• items (integer/null) — source_receipt: feed item count.
• funding (integer/null) — source_receipt: fundable records found.
• parse_error (string/null) — source_receipt: feed parse error, when the source was unparseable.

Every run also writes a RUN_RECEIPT record to its key-value store with the source checks it made and the counts it charged — diagnostics never land in the paid dataset.

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "maxRecords": 10
}

The sample run charged exactly: 1 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 6 × $0.05 funding_round_record = $0.32 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed.

2. A smaller, narrowed run

{
  "maxRecords": 5
}

Caps the run at 5 rows — about $0.27 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5 × $0.05).

3. A full-size run

{
  "maxRecords": 100
}

Up to 100 rows (the schema default for maxRecords) — about $5.02 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 100 × $0.05) if the source has that many.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run fdT83eqLYJb6nkCsp, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "record_type": "funding_round",
  "company": "UK Ryft",
  "full_title": "UK FinTech startup Ryft secures €23 million to accelerate European expansion",
  "amount_value": 23000000,
  "amount_currency": "EUR",
  "amount_display": "€23 million",
  "round": "Series B",
  "location": "European",
  "investors": [
    "Gresham House Ventures"
  ],
  "announced_at": "2026-09-17T14:21:31+00:00",
  "announced_raw": "Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:21:31 +0000",
  "source": "eu-startups",
  "source_url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/09/uk-fintech-startup-ryft-secures-e23-million-to-accelerate-european-expansion/",
  "guid": "https://www.eu-startups.com/?p=367588",
  "categories": [
    "Funding",
    "UK-Startups",
    "FinTech",
    "Gresham House Ventures",
    "Ingenii Capital",
    "klearly",
    "Manchester",
    "paymove",
    "Pembroke VCT",
    "Primer",
    "Ralio",
    "Ryft"
  ],
  "reported_by": [
    "eu-startups"
  ],
  "cross_source_confirmed": false
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads www.eu-startups.com — endpoints: https://www.eu-startups.com/feed/. Public pages and feeds only; nothing behind a login.

Transport. Plain HTTPS from the Apify platform, no proxy. Every request carries an identified contact User-Agent.

Terminal states. A run ends NORMAL, CAPPED (your cap was reached), PARTIAL (something was withheld and the message says what), GENUINE_EMPTY (the source was read and truly had nothing in scope) or BLOCKED (the source refused or changed shape — the run FAILS loud and bills nothing). A zero-row run is never reported as a silent success.

Charging. Each funding round record is charged at the moment it is pushed (funding_round_record); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

What it does

• Reads the EU-Startups public RSS feed and keeps only genuine funding rounds — a headline with a raise verb and a parseable amount. Weekly round-up posts, paywalled stubs with no amount, and non-funding posts (acquisitions, opinion) are skipped and never billed.
• Collapses the same deal to one record (cross-source safe: company + amount + day).
• 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 it honours members-only paywalls.
• If the feed is unreachable or unparseable it stops loudly — a broken source is never delivered as an empty success.

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.

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

⏰ Set it on a schedule

A single run is a snapshot. The value is the feed: open the actor in Apify Console → Schedules → Create new, add this actor with the input you want, and pick a cadence:

• Daily — 0 7 * * * (07:00 UTC): catch changes within a day.
• Weekly — 0 7 * * 1: a Monday digest.

Each run is independent; keep the same input on the schedule so the results stay comparable. Schedules can also POST results to a webhook (Console → Integrations).

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Funding round record (funding_round_record)	$0.05	$0.04	$0.04	$0.03

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 6 funding round records: $0.02 start + 6 × $0.05 = $0.32
• 25 funding round records: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.05 = $1.27
• 100 funding round records: $0.02 start + 100 × $0.05 = $5.02

A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 1024 MB.

Yield on the sample run: NORMAL: 6 funding records (0 duplicate mentions collapsed); funding_round_record billable=6. maxRecords is a hard ceiling on what is delivered and billed, never a target.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by www.eu-startups.com. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, identifies itself with a contact User-Agent, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (www.eu-startups.com) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.

Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input; BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event — retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.

Q: How many rows can one run return?
A: Up to maxRecords (default 100). Raise the cap for a bigger run; you pay per delivered row.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.

Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.

Q: How is this different from the other startup funding leads actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers www.eu-startups.com. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices — run several on one schedule for a combined feed.

Q: Are there rate limits?
A: The actor paces itself against the source; there is no per-buyer limit beyond your Apify plan's concurrency.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
• Status says CAPPED → your cap (maxRecords) was reached → raise it for a bigger run.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.

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