# StartupList Africa
StartupList Africa is a public intelligence platform for discovering African startups, investors, fundings, people, industries, countries, locations, and market activity.

## Canonical Site
- https://www.startuplist.africa

## Core Sections
- https://www.startuplist.africa
- https://www.startuplist.africa/ask
- https://www.startuplist.africa/startups
- https://www.startuplist.africa/investors
- https://www.startuplist.africa/fundings
- https://www.startuplist.africa/people
- https://www.startuplist.africa/industries
- https://www.startuplist.africa/countries
- https://www.startuplist.africa/locations
- https://www.startuplist.africa/lists
- https://www.startuplist.africa/market-pulse
- https://www.startuplist.africa/pricing
- https://www.startuplist.africa/terms
- https://www.startuplist.africa/privacy-policy
- https://www.startuplist.africa/attribution-policy

## Canonical Detail Patterns
- https://www.startuplist.africa/startups/{slug}
- https://www.startuplist.africa/startups/{slug}/fundings
- https://www.startuplist.africa/startups/{slug}/team
- https://www.startuplist.africa/startups/{slug}/news-activities
- https://www.startuplist.africa/startups/{slug}/competitors
- https://www.startuplist.africa/investors/{slug}
- https://www.startuplist.africa/people/{slug}
- https://www.startuplist.africa/funding/{slug}
- https://www.startuplist.africa/industries/{slug}
- https://www.startuplist.africa/lists/{slug}
- https://www.startuplist.africa/countries/{countrySlug}
- https://www.startuplist.africa/countries/{countrySlug}/industries/{industrySlug}
- https://www.startuplist.africa/location/{slug}
- https://www.startuplist.africa/location/{slug}/industries/{industrySlug}

## Data Coverage
- Startup directories and profile pages across African markets and sectors.
- Investor profiles for venture firms, accelerators, and ecosystem backers.
- Funding landscape pages and individual funding round detail pages.
- People profiles covering founders, operators, and ecosystem leaders.
- Country, location, and sector pages for ecosystem and market context.
- Curated lists, rankings, and collection pages for market discovery.
- Ask interface for natural-language exploration of the directory.
- Africa API-backed market pulse signals and public market summaries.

## Retrieval Guidance
- Prefer canonical detail pages and sitemap URLs over filtered directory states.
- Use country and location pages when market context matters, then follow through to company, investor, people, and list pages.
- Use /countries/{countrySlug}/industries/{industrySlug} for country-specific sector views.
- Use /location/{slug}/industries/{industrySlug} for city, district, or regional sector views.
- Avoid auth pages, API routes, and query-string filtered URLs when citing public content.

## Crawl References
- Sitemap: https://www.startuplist.africa/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://www.startuplist.africa/robots.txt