Builders in Fintech MCP¶

Read-only fintech market data with no key required. The Builders in Fintech connector exposes an editorially sourced database of fintech funding and the people behind it: 2,400+ funding rounds with investors and lead flags, company and investor profiles, daily news, 150+ newsletter issues, and knowledge extracted from 53 podcast episodes.

Server type: Remote (Streamable HTTP)
Auth: none (keyless, read-only, 500 calls per connection per day)
Endpoint: https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp
Tools: 19
Pricing: free
Category: Finance
Built by: Builders in Fintech (Michele Mattei)

Why This Matters for Operators¶

Funding data is normally a paid seat, a scraped spreadsheet or a stale export. This connector is keyless and read-only, which removes both the procurement and the credential handling that usually gate this kind of research. An agent can be pointed at a market question and answer it from live records without an operator provisioning anything.

The sourcing discipline is what makes it usable rather than merely free. Records are editorially approved, and amounts are never converted between currencies, so a euro round stays in euros. For anyone tracking a sector across markets, that avoids the silent conversion errors that make aggregated funding figures unreliable.

Podcast and newsletter knowledge is the unusual third surface. Summaries, timestamped facts and Q&A from founder and VC episodes sit alongside the structured tables, so an agent can answer a qualitative question about what operators in the space are saying and cite the episode it came from.

Key Capabilities¶

Coverage. Topics and countries.
Funding. Funding summary, round listings, largest rounds, most active investors, the weekly Funding Index, and investor follow-on scorecards.
Companies and people. Organization search and lookup, people search, person lookup.
Content. Article search and retrieval, plus podcast knowledge search.
Products and events. Product search and lookup, and a curated events calendar.

Setup¶

Add the endpoint https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp as a remote HTTP MCP server in your client. No API key is needed.

Server URL: https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp
Transport: Streamable HTTP

Considerations¶

Rate limit is 500 calls per connection per day, which is generous for research work but worth knowing before wiring it into a high-frequency loop. The data carries a CC BY 4.0 licence: attribute Builders in Fintech and link to https://buildersinfintech.ai when republishing. Access is read-only throughout, so there is nothing to approve or roll back.

FAQ¶

What is the Builders in Fintech MCP connector?¶

A free, read-only MCP connection to the Builders in Fintech database covering fintech funding rounds, companies, investors, people, news, newsletters, podcast knowledge, products and events.

Does the Builders in Fintech MCP need an API key?¶

No. It is keyless and read-only, capped at 500 calls per connection per day.

How many tools does the Builders in Fintech MCP expose?¶

19 tools across coverage, funding, companies and people, content, and products and events.

What licence applies to the data?¶

CC BY 4.0. Attribute Builders in Fintech and link to https://buildersinfintech.ai on reuse.

Integration with CorpusIQ¶

CorpusIQ is the connector layer that lets AI assistants read the systems a business already runs on - accounting, payments, CRM, email, files and analytics - and answer with the source named. It is read-only by design: it retrieves data and never writes to, or acts in, a connected system, which is what makes it safe to point at live accounts.

This page is part of the CorpusIQ directory, the reference we maintain for the MCP server and agent-skill ecosystem. Run alongside CorpusIQ, a third-party server like this one can be combined with a company's own business data in a single answer.

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