Dealflow.Africa vs StartupDB

Dealflow.Africa is a web platform for tracking African startup funding rounds, investors, acquisitions, and ecosystem signals. Its dashboard presents funding rounds, sector breakdowns, country market maps, and company comparisons. The About page describes more than 2,000 funding rounds, over 500 investor profiles, and coverage of more than 20 African countries. The maker says each data point is sourced, verified, and scored for confidence, while funding rounds, acquisitions, and ecosystem signals are captured as they happen. Startups can list a fundraise, connect with verified investors, and request warm introductions. Founders can browse accelerator and incubator programs, apply through the platform, and track applications. The innovation-hub directory includes coworking spaces, startup communities, studios, and government programs. Founder profiles can contain company details, a pitch deck, and fundraising information. The startup page claims more than 1,000 companies, over 50 programs, and investors across more than 30 African countries. Startup access costs nothing and is free forever with no credit card required.

StartupDB is a free database of startups, investors and people, organized around investment relationships and funding rounds. Company records can include funding dates, amounts, investor roles and source URLs, and facts link to sources for checking. Its data draws on reviewed public investor portfolio pages, public news, company and investor websites, and edits by staff, founders and investors. The database is available through a read-only MCP server and REST API, without an account or API key. The MCP server has six tools for searching investors, startups and people and retrieving individual records. The REST API provides GET endpoints for searches, individual records, investor portfolios and company funding activity, returning JSON. Both interfaces allow 120 requests per minute per IP address, with no daily cap. StartupDB says coverage is not complete, so a missing round or investor means only that the information is absent from the database. Dataset facts and compilation are licensed under CC BY 4.0 for commercial reuse with attribution; third-party logos, photos and site text are excluded. Founders and investors can claim and correct pages, and staff review reported issues. StartupDB says it was built at Workshop.