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  "name": "Crunchbase",
  "vendor_url": "crunchbase.com",
  "category": "data-enrichment",
  "what_it_does": "A private-company database covering company profiles, funding rounds, investors, people and acquisitions, sold as a web product, a REST API and, since 2026, a first-party MCP server that exposes the same data to AI assistants.",
  "ai_features": "Crunchbase's own layer is predictive rather than generative: it publishes funding, growth, acquisition and IPO predictions plus Heat and Growth scores derived from its signal set, and the vendor states 15M+ private company predictions are refreshed weekly. The MCP server adds LLM-native access to that data (expert tools that translate plain language into a Crunchbase search, plus structured lookup and list tools), but the reasoning is done by the client model, not by Crunchbase.",
  "mcp_status": "official",
  "mcp_url": "https://mcp.crunchbase.com (docs: https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/mcp-overview and https://about.crunchbase.com/products/crunchbase-mcp)",
  "mcp_auth": "OAuth 2.1. The user signs in with their normal Crunchbase account in the AI client's browser flow; Crunchbase then checks that the account holds an MCP seat before the connection completes.",
  "api_gate": "enterprise-only - the vendor's own MCP overview states \"MCP is purchased per workspace and access is assigned per user as an MCP seat by your workspace admin\" and directs new buyers to \"contact your account team to add MCP to your workspace\"; the Crunchbase API product page publishes no price and every call to action on it is \"Talk to Sales\". Crunchbase Pro is separately self-serve, but a Pro subscription is not stated to include an MCP seat.",
  "revops_role": "Upstream firmographic and funding-signal source for account research, ICP definition and territory planning, feeding lists into the CRM or an enrichment layer rather than sitting in the outbound path itself.",
  "tier": "RESEARCHED",
  "last_checked": "2026-09-07",
  "sources": "https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/mcp-overview, https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/getting-started-with-mcp.md, https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/connecting-ai-tools.md, https://about.crunchbase.com/products/crunchbase-mcp, https://about.crunchbase.com/products/crunchbase-api, https://about.crunchbase.com/products/crunchbase-pro, https://mcp.crunchbase.com",
  "notes": "Verified 2026-09-07: POST of an MCP initialize to https://mcp.crunchbase.com returned HTTP 401, which confirms a live auth-gated server at that address. The endpoint is not printed on the marketing page; it comes from the vendor's own Connecting AI Tools doc, which gives the bare host with no path plus a Claude Code one-liner (claude mcp add --transport http --scope user crunchbase https://mcp.crunchbase.com). Docs state the server exposes both expert tools (plain-language question answering and query translation) and structured tools (entity lookup, explicit search, list creation and management), and claim that \"Everything available through the Crunchbase API is available through the MCP server\". Two gates stack here and should not be conflated: the AI-client side is cheap (the docs state the connector can be added \"even if you are on a free Claude plan\") while the Crunchbase side requires a purchased MCP seat. The docs also state that data access for applications built on the MCP server differs from individual seat access and routes to the account team. Cross-reference: this vendor is also a funding-signal source and 05-signals-intent-abm.md could reasonably cross-list it; 01 is treated as canonical. 2026-09-07: https://mcp.crunchbase.com is on the vendor domain and returned 401 to an MCP initialize POST (https://mcp.crunchbase.com).",
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