🦄 Venture Capital & Startup News Intelligence

Turn noisy tech news into structured Deal Flow data.

This Actor monitors top Venture Capital & Startup news sources (TechCrunch, Sifted, VentureBeat, etc.) and uses AI to extract structured intelligence.

🚀 Key Features

• Batteries Included: No API keys required for you. We handle the OpenAI and Search infrastructure.
• Smart Extraction Engine: Uses a hybrid "Scrape-First, Search-Fallback" engine. If a site (like VentureBeat) blocks the scraper, the Actor automatically switches to Brave Search API to recover the data.
• Deal Data: Automatically parses Raise Amount (e.g., "$15M"), Round Stage (Series A), and Lead Investors.
• Market Intelligence: Classifies startups by Industry Vertical (e.g., Generative AI, Fintech) and Sentiment.
• Real-Time Alerts: Optional Discord integration to ping your team the moment a new deal is announced.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Select Source: Choose a specific outlet (e.g., TechCrunch, Finsmes) or All for maximum coverage.
2. Set Limits: Define how many new articles to process (default: 10).
3. Start: The Actor handles the scraping, fallback, and AI analysis automatically.

📥 Output Data

Every run produces a structured JSON dataset. Even if no funding deal is found, you get a high-quality AI summary of the tech news.

{
  "title": "Startup X Raises $15M Series A",
  "url": "[https://techcrunch.com/](https://techcrunch.com/)...",
  "content_type": "Funding News",
  "deal_size": "$15,000,000",
  "round_stage": "Series A",
  "investors": ["Sequoia Capital", "Benchmark"],
  "industry_vertical": "Fintech",
  "sentiment": "Positive",
  "summary": "Startup X, a payment processor for...",
  "source": "TechCrunch"
}

💰 Pricing & Costs

Our flexible Pay-Per-Analysis pricing scales dynamically with your agency. Stop paying thousands for closed-ecosystem alternatives.

You only pay for successful AI analysis—all internal server time, proxies, scraping engine costs, and LLM token expenditures are 100% covered by us (Zero platform usage costs passed locally to you!).

Plan Type	Rate per 1,000 Articles Analyzed (article-summary)	Effective Cost Per Item
Free (Default)	$7.00	$0.007
Starter (Bronze)	$6.00 (14% Savings)	$0.006
Scale (Silver)	$5.00 (29% Savings)	$0.005
Business (Gold)	$4.00 (43% Savings!)	$0.004

Note: A fractional $0.00005 standard Actor Start execution fee applies per run to offset compute initiation costs.

🔔 Discord Alerts

Want real-time deal flow in your Slack/Discord?

1. Create a Webhook in your Discord Channel settings.
2. Paste the URL into the Discord Webhook input field.
3. Schedule this Actor to run every hour.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an OpenAI API Key? A: No. The Actor uses our internal infrastructure. You just pay per result.

Q: Why do some articles show "Free Record"? A: If an article is skipped due to deduplication or errors before reaching the AI, you are not charged the analysis fee.

Q: Which sources work best for Deals? A: Finsmes, PE Hub, and StrictlyVC provide the highest density of structured deal data. TechCrunch is excellent but includes general tech news which we also analyze.