# Recently Funded Startup Database (`dionysus_way/startup-database`) Actor

Instantly query a prebuilt database of startups that raised funding in 2025-2026. Filter by industry, location, funding stage, amount, and date. No live scraping; results return immediately.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dionysus_way/startup-database.md
- **Developed by:** [Dionysus](https://apify.com/dionysus_way) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Other
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 6 total users, 4 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.20 / 1,000 startups

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

*(a list of **funded startups** that just raised money, with their website and, where published, the person to contact, for under half a cent per company)*

### What is the Recently Funded Startup Database?

The **Recently Funded Startup Database** is a prebuilt **startup list** of companies that raised funding from January 2025 onward. Each company comes with its **verified website**, **funding amount and date**, **named company leaders**, email, phone and headquarters location. Pick **industries**, **regions** and **funding quarters**, set how many companies you want, and download the list as **JSON, CSV or Excel**.

Nothing is scraped while you wait: every company was collected and checked in advance, so results come back in seconds.

What it gives you:

- **A verified website on every company.** Each site was checked against that specific company, never matched by name alone. One company ships per domain, so you never pay for the same business twice.
- **Funding details on almost every company.** About 9 in 10 companies come with the raised amount and its currency (`$8,397,541`, `€1,300,000`), plus the funding date and quarter.
- **Named people, not just a company.** About 7 in 10 companies come with a named leader and their title, such as a founder, CEO or executive officer; about 4 in 10 come with a founder or CEO. Over half come with a second person.
- **Contact details.** About half of the companies come with a phone number, and close to half with an email address published on their own site.
- **Global coverage, strongest in the United States and Europe**, with Canada, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and Africa included.
- Everything the Apify platform adds: **API access, scheduled runs, integrations** (Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, webhooks) and run monitoring.

### How to get a list of recently funded startups

1. Click **Try for free** at the top of this page. Sign in, or create a free Apify account (no credit card needed). The Actor opens on its **Input** tab.
2. In **Industries**, pick one or more industries, such as **Fintech** or **AI & Machine Learning**. Leave it empty for all industries.
3. In **Regions**, pick where the companies are headquartered, such as **Europe** or **United States**. Leave it empty for all regions.
4. In **Funding quarters**, pick the quarters when the funding was announced, or **All 2026** for a whole year. Leave it empty for all quarters.
5. Set **Maximum results**: how many companies you want. For a first look, leave it at 100: that costs under 50 cents on any plan.
6. Click **Start** at the bottom of the page. The newest rounds come first.
7. When the run finishes, open the **Output** tab, click **Export** and download your data in JSON, CSV or Excel format.

### What data can you get from the startup database?

#### On every company

- **companyName**: the company's trading name
- **website**: its verified homepage
- **domain**: the website's domain, handy for CRM matching and deduplication
- **industry**: one label from a fixed list of 23 industries, so filtering stays consistent
- **region**: headquarters region: United States, Europe, Canada, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Latin America or Caribbean. Asia includes the Middle East and Africa includes North Africa.
- **fundingDate**, **fundingQuarter**: when the round was announced

#### On almost every company

- **country**: headquarters country
- **fundingAmount**: the raised amount with its currency symbol, where it was disclosed. It is text, so the symbol travels with the value.
- **moneyType**: Equity, Debt, SAFE, Grant, Convertible Note and similar

#### On most companies

- **city**: headquarters city
- **description**: what the company does, in a short neutral sentence
- **contact1Name**, **contact1Title**: the best-evidenced person with a published senior role, such as founder, CEO or executive officer
- **addressLine**: street address. Present on nearly every US company and on about one in four elsewhere.

#### On about half

- **state**: state or province, mostly on US and Canadian companies
- **phone**: a contact number for the company
- **linkedInCompany**: the official company page
- **contact2Name**, **contact2Title**: a second named person

#### On fewer than half

- **email**, **emailsAll**: contact addresses published on the company's own site
- **fundingStage**: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, B or C, or Growth, only where it was stated
- **contact3Name**, **contact3Title**: a third named person
- **twitter**: the company's X (Twitter) profile, on about a quarter of companies
- **contact1LinkedIn**, **contact2LinkedIn**, **contact3LinkedIn**: personal LinkedIn links, on only a few percent of companies

Nothing is guessed or estimated, so a field is empty whenever it could not be verified.

### How much does it cost?

This Actor is paid per result. You pay a fixed price for each company returned (plus $0.00005 each time a run starts), not for Apify platform usage. The price drops on higher Apify plans:

| Apify plan | 1,000 companies |
| --- | --- |
| Free | $4.90 |
| Starter | $3.90 |
| Scale | $2.90 |
| Business | $2.20 |

- **Under half a cent per company on every plan.** Funding-round trackers in the Store charge 7 to 8 cents per company, often without any contact person.
- **Maximum results is also your cost ceiling**: you never pay for more companies than you ask for.
- A run that finds no matching companies costs nothing beyond the start fee.
- The Apify Free plan gives you $5 of credit every month: enough for over 1,000 companies.

Filters help you pay only for the companies you need.

### Sample output

A well-filled company, shown to illustrate the full shape. Many companies have fewer fields filled; see the coverage groups above. In CSV and Excel, **emailsAll** is joined with `; `.

```json
{
    "companyName": "Lucem Health",
    "website": "https://lucemhealth.com/",
    "domain": "lucemhealth.com",
    "industry": "AI & Machine Learning",
    "description": "Lucem Health develops practical AI tools that help healthcare providers accelerate disease detection and treatment.",
    "region": "United States",
    "country": "United States",
    "state": "North Carolina",
    "city": "Davidson",
    "addressLine": "210 Delburg St., Davidson, NC 28036",
    "fundingDate": "2026-03-26",
    "fundingQuarter": "2026-Q1",
    "fundingAmount": "$8,397,541",
    "fundingStage": "Series A",
    "moneyType": "Equity",
    "email": "info@lucemhealth.com",
    "emailsAll": ["info@lucemhealth.com"],
    "phone": "919.371.6323 x703",
    "linkedInCompany": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/lucem-health",
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/lucemhealth",
    "contact1Name": "Sean Cassidy",
    "contact1Title": "CEO",
    "contact2Name": "Eric Navarro",
    "contact2Title": "CTO",
    "contact3Name": "Conrad Gudmundson",
    "contact3Title": "Chief Commercial Officer"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Lead generation**: build a target list of newly funded companies in your industry and market, with a named decision maker.
- **Market research**: see which sectors and regions are raising, quarter by quarter.
- **Investor and competitor tracking**: find out who raised, when, how much and at what stage.
- **Recruiting**: reach companies that just raised and are likely to start hiring.

### FAQ

#### How do the filters work?

Inside one filter, a company matches any of the values you pick: two industries return companies in either industry. Across filters, a company must match all of them: industry, region and quarter. Leave a filter empty, or pick its "All" option, to include everything in it.

#### How fresh is the data?

It covers funding announced from January 2025 onward. Every company is checked before it is added, so the newest rounds run a few weeks behind today's date, and the most recent quarter is always partial.

#### Why is a field empty?

Because it could not be verified. Amounts and stages appear only when they were disclosed, and contacts only when a person's role was published. Street addresses are near complete for US companies but much rarer elsewhere, so use **country** and **city** to filter by location worldwide.

#### Why does my query return nothing?

Several narrow filters together can match no company, for example one small industry in a thinly covered region in a single quarter. Widen any one of the filters.

#### Is this a Crunchbase alternative?

It covers the most common reason people open Crunchbase: a list of recently funded startups with their website, amount, date and leaders. It is a ready-made file you pay for per company, with no subscription and no seat licence.

#### Is there a startup funding API?

Yes: this Actor works as one. Start it from your own code with the Apify API and get the companies back as JSON.

#### Can I use it through the API or an MCP server?

Yes. Start runs and download results from your own code with the Apify API (JavaScript, Python or plain HTTP), or let an AI assistant run it through the Apify MCP server. Ready-to-copy examples are in the **API** section below.

#### Which integrations work?

Send results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, Slack, Airbyte or your own webhook when a run finishes. Schedule a monthly run to pick up the newest rounds.

#### Is it legal to use this data?

All data comes from public sources. Some fields, such as names and emails, are personal data, which laws like the GDPR protect. Only use personal data when you have a legitimate reason. If you are not sure, ask a lawyer. Read more in [Is web scraping legal?](https://blog.apify.com/is-web-scraping-legal/)

#### Can you build a custom version?

Yes. If you need other fields, a different region or a custom format, email southdionysus@gmail.com.

#### Where can I get help if something goes wrong?

Please open an issue on the Actor's page first. You can also email southdionysus@gmail.com.

*Start a broad run now to see the shape of the data, then narrow it down to the startups you need.*

***

This Actor is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any of the companies listed in the database.

# Actor input Schema

## `industries` (type: `array`):

Companies in any of these industries. Empty or "All industries" = every industry.

## `regions` (type: `array`):

Companies headquartered in any of these regions. Asia includes the Middle East, Africa includes North Africa. Empty or "All regions" = every region.

## `fundingQuarters` (type: `array`):

Companies whose funding was announced in any of these quarters, or a whole year. Empty or "All quarters" = every quarter.

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

How many companies to return, newest rounds first. You pay per company, so this is also your cost ceiling.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All companies matching the query (one item per company).

# 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": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dionysus_way/startup-database").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": 100 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dionysus_way/startup-database").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).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": 100
}' |
apify call dionysus_way/startup-database --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dionysus_way/startup-database"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7Awpc2pjUg34RCQFS/builds/ywUbohO3CJbuH2NoT/openapi.json