Crunchbase AI / MCP for Agents

Give Your Agents the Data to Execute, Not Just Answer

Automate agent research, reasoning, and action with the Crunchbase MCP. Connect it to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI tools in minutes, and your agents can work with private market data on their own.

Set It Up

Set It Up

Set Up Crunchbase in ChatGPT

1. Open the Crunchbase listing in ChatGPT's plugin directory.

2. Select Crunchbase, then click Install.

3. Sign in with your Crunchbase account.

4. Start a new ChatGPT conversation.

5. Type @Crunchbase and give your agent its first task.

Set Up Crunchbase in ChatGPT

Set Up Crunchbase in Claude

1. Open the Crunchbase listing in Claude's connector directory.

2. Select Crunchbase and choose Connect.

3. Sign in with your Crunchbase account.

4. Start a new Claude conversation.

5. Type @Crunchbase and give your agent its first task.

Set Up Crunchbase in Claude

Set Up Crunchbase in Perplexity

1. Open the Crunchbase listing in Perplexity's connector directory.

2. Select the Crunchbase connector and click Add.

3. Sign in with your Crunchbase account.

4. Start a new Perplexity thread.

5. Type @Crunchbase and give your agent its first task.

Set Up Crunchbase in Perplexity

Connect Crunchbase to Your Own Agent

1. Open your agent's MCP server configuration.

2. Add a new remote MCP server with the following details:
Name: Crunchbase
Server URL: https://mcp.crunchbase.com
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Authentication: OAuth 2.1

3. If your client requires pre-registered OAuth credentials, create an OAuth client in Crunchbase under Account Settings > Integrations > MCP, then add its client ID and secret to your agent's configuration.

4. Sign in with your Crunchbase account and select Allow to authorize the connection.

5. Give your agent its first task.

Connect Crunchbase to Your Own Agent

Put Your Agent to Work

With structured, real-time private market data built for agentic workflows, your agents can research, reason, and act without you watching. Every action traces back to the Crunchbase record behind it.

Competitive Monitoring

Every weekday morning, use Crunchbase to monitor [my company] ([domain]) and up to 10 of its most similar companies. Report any new funding rounds, acquisitions, product launches, leadership hires or departures, and notable headcount shifts from the past 24 hours. For each change, explain how it overlaps with our business, rate the threat as high, medium, or low, and recommend one response. Lead with the most important move, link each finding to its Crunchbase record, and label anything undisclosed rather than estimating it.

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Thesis Screening

Every night, use Crunchbase to find up to 25 private companies that match my thesis: [sector], [Seed to Series A], headquartered in [region], founded since [2022], with no more than [$30M] raised, in an emerging or growing micro-industry. Segment matches by use case. For each, show total funding, last round and lead investors, funding prediction, and current valuation estimate. Rank by likelihood of raising in the next six months, explain why each top-five match fits, note which filters excluded close candidates, and add new matches to my [Thesis Pipeline] Crunchbase list.

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Account Scoring

Every Monday, re-score each company in my [Target Accounts] Crunchbase list from 0 to 100 using headcount growth over 3 and 12 months, funding events in the last 90 days, financing cadence, growth and acquisition predictions, and micro-industry momentum. State your weights up front, then return a ranked table with each account's score, change since last week, and the signal that moved it most. Separate retrieved Crunchbase facts from your calculations, name the five accounts to prioritize this week, and explain any drop of more than 10 points.

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Meeting Prep

One hour before each external meeting on my calendar, use only Crunchbase to build a one-page brief on the company, resolving it by its website domain. Cover what it does and whether its micro-industry is growing or declining, funding history and investors, current valuation estimate, headcount growth, key leaders and recent changes, acquisitions, and its three closest competitors and how it differs from each. Close with its growth, funding, or acquisition predictions, the risks worth raising, and five sharp questions for the meeting. Label anything missing or undisclosed.

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Get Started in Your AI Tool

Add Crunchbase to the AI tool your agents already run in.

ChatGPT

Install Crunchbase from ChatGPT's plugin directory and connect your account.

Open in ChatGPT

Claude

Add the Crunchbase connector from Claude's directory. It works on web, desktop, and mobile.

Open in Claude

Perplexity

Enable Crunchbase in Perplexity's Connectors directory, then type @Crunchbase in any thread.

Open in Perplexity