Teams get Crunchbase's proprietary private market data and predictions directly inside their AI tools and agents
SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / July 21, 2026 / Crunchbase today announced a new model context protocol (MCP), bringing leading private market intelligence directly into LLM answers so that business decision-makers can move faster and make more confident decisions.
With $510 billion invested in startups in the first half of 2026 alone, dealmaking and AI product innovation have never been more competitive - or more dependent on the right intelligence. Crunchbase's unmatched proprietary data, predictions and insights equip investors, financial analysts, product builders and GTM teams with the foresight they need to move faster than the competition. With the launch of the Crunchbase MCP, that intelligence is now available inside the AI tools teams already use.
The Crunchbase MCP draws from more than 39 billion live private market signals, 790 data fields per company and 15 million predictions - built on live activity insights from more than 80 million users and information from 1,000 public sources and 600,000 data team members, venture capital partners and subject matter experts. Those prediction models have accurately anticipated 84% of real-world funding events before they happened. For business decision-makers, that translates to faster decisions backed by data they can trust.
"When every enterprise has access to the same AI tools, the underlying data becomes the competitive edge," said Ketaki Rao, chief product officer at Crunchbase. "The Crunchbase MCP provides direct AI access to our live private market data and predictive signals so decision-makers can ask questions naturally, receive trusted responses and ultimately, act with greater speed and conviction."
"AI agents depend on data," said Will Bryk, CEO at Exa AI. "Exa partners with Crunchbase to enable the highest quality company data in a new agentic search economy."
Going beyond search to deliver complete, actionable answers
Rather than requiring teams to build and maintain custom integrations, the MCP brings Crunchbase's intelligence layer into MCP-compatible environments, including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor and other AI tools and agents, through a standard protocol.
Unlike MCP servers that expose raw search results or static lists, Crunchbase identifies the filters, fields and relationships a user might not have known to ask about to deliver complete, analytically sound answers that are immediately actionable. For example, a user can ask which companies within a specific industry and time frame are showing the strongest growth signals, or which accounts are most likely to raise capital in the next year, and the MCP automatically determines the most relevant companies, metrics and signals to include. This allows professionals to access Crunchbase's depth of data without needing technical expertise.
"Financial professionals need more than information," said Strib Walker, head of product at Rogo. "They need relevant context they can apply directly to investment and advisory decisions. Bringing Crunchbase intelligence into Rogo through MCP helps teams surface the right company and market signals, combine them with their firm's own knowledge and workflows and move from research to execution faster."
"Private market intelligence is most valuable when teams can connect it to what they already know about their customers, prospects and strategy," said Zubin Irani, vice president of partnerships at Glean. "By bringing Crunchbase's live market signals into Glean through MCP, organizations can combine external intelligence with their own enterprise context to identify the right opportunities and act faster."
Built for investors, revenue teams and product builders
The Crunchbase MCP is built to support critical workflows across financial analysis, investing, revenue and product teams.
Fuel high-yield investments: Identify high-growth companies, run diligence in seconds and act quickly on private market opportunities.
Source and close more revenue: Find and evaluate targets in seconds, and prioritize the accounts with buying power using growth signals, funding data, exit predictions, leadership data and more.
Power products that drive customer retention: Embed private market intelligence directly into your product without the engineering lift. Access is governed by enterprise-grade security controls from day one.
The Crunchbase MCP is available starting today. For the first time, the private market intelligence that powers decisions at thousands of the world's leading investment and revenue teams is accessible through a plain-English question - no code, no integration build, no switching tabs.
"The quality of Crunchbase's private market data raises what Semaverse can do for a deal team," said Mo Ladha, CEO at Semaverse. "We hold the investment context, a firm's thesis and how it judges a deal. Bring Crunchbase's company intelligence and predictive signals into that, and the two compound rather than add. A firm assesses the entire market against its own strategy and moves on the deals that fit, with an edge neither data nor context delivers alone."
For more information, get in touch with a Crunchbase sales representative.
About Crunchbase
Crunchbase is the leading predictive solution for private company intelligence, helping business decision-makers stay ahead of private market shifts so they can identify opportunities earlier and act first. Only Crunchbase combines nearly two decades of proprietary data and AI with unique engagement signals from more than 80 million users to forecast funding, growth, and exits across the private company lifecycle. From investors and dealmakers to go-to-market teams and product builders, enterprises use Crunchbase data to power workflows, products, and decisions.
Crunchbase delivers intelligence through its flexible API, CRM integrations, and platform. To learn more, visit crunchbase.com and follow Crunchbase on LinkedIn and X.
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