MCP server

StartupHub.ai Official

ai.startuphub/startuphub

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Funding rounds, AI startup and investor search, email discovery, agent-readiness. No API key.

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At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

startuphub.ai (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

68

Token cost

About 19,664 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http startuphub https://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.startuphub]
url = "https://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"startuphub":{"httpUrl":"https://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"startuphub":{"url":"https://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"startuphub":{"type":"http","url":"https://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add startuphub https://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"startuphub","server_url":"https://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"startuphub","server_url":"https://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/mcp"}

Tools

• cancel_monitor_watch ~66 tokens
  Stop a company watch. Pass id from list_monitor_watches. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• check_domain_rating ~84 tokens
  Ahrefs Domain Rating, 0 to 100, for a domain. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• check_effective_domain_rating ~147 tokens
  Effective Domain Rating: a 0 to 100 read of visibility that is actually realized, set next to Ahrefs Domain Rating. Often takes 30 to 60 seconds. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• check_site_speed ~130 tokens
  Website Speed Test. PageSpeed scores and Core Web Vitals for a public URL. strategy is mobile or desktop. Often takes 30 to 70 seconds. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• check_trust_reputation ~125 tokens
  Trust and Reputation. A 0 to 100 score from security, privacy, and public record for a domain. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• create_monitor_watch ~225 tokens
  Monitor. Watch a company site and get alerts when public signals change. Pass a domain. Optional frequency: weekly, daily, 12h, or 4h, clamped to the plan. Optional signals. Optional webhook_url (https). Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• deep_intelligence ~203 tokens
  Run a deep-intelligence lookup on any entity across our graph of 25,000+ AI startups, 14,000+ investors and 75,000+ people. Give a name, company, domain, LinkedIn URL, or email and get a consolidated dossier: company facts, funding, people, technographics, social + web presence, and AI-summarized si
• discover_email ~304 tokens
  Find a real, deliverable professional email for a person at a company. Pass first name + last name + the company domain; get back the verified address, a confidence score, and a short note about who it likely reaches. Charges 1 credit only when an address is found. May take a moment on first call —
• enrich_company ~115 tokens
  Build a company profile from a name and optional website or LinkedIn URL. Returns the description, sector, headquarters, founding year, and public links that were found. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• enrich_email ~273 tokens
  One-call CRM/inbox enrichment. Pass an email, get back: the best available name and its source, the person's public Gravatar profile when they have one (name, title, company, location, verified social accounts), the domain's mail provider, matched person record (if known), the email's domain matched
• find_logo ~53 tokens
  Find square and horizontal logos for a company
• find_matches ~168 tokens
  Find Matches. Given a startup slug or id, return investors that fit, each with a reason. Given an investor slug or id, return startups that fit. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• find_stealth_startups ~548 tokens
  Convenience wrapper around search_startups pre-tuned for fresh-stealth deal-flow. Always sends stealth=true and sort=founded_date.desc; those two cannot be changed here. Returns stealth startups with their detected tech stack (CDN, email provider, analytics), RDAP domain registration date, and a has
• generate_article_video ~277 tokens
  Article to YouTube. Turn an article URL, or a block of text, into a narrated video with captions. Returns a job id right away. Call get_article_video with that job_id until status is done, then use mp4_url. Requires an API key and charges video credits when the job is queued. Needs a free StartupHub
• generate_rss_feed ~99 tokens
  RSS Feed Generator. Build a feed for a site, including one that never published a feed. Pass the site url. Returns feed_xml and a feed_url. Free, rate-limited.
• generate_startup_list ~452 tokens
  Prompt → curated startup list. Pass a natural-language brief like 'stealth AI agent startups in Israel founded after 2024' and the engine runs a Google-grounded search, parses results, finds-or-creates the matching startup rows in StartupHub.ai's database, and returns up to 50 startup IDs. Caller ca
• generate_visual_tldr ~164 tokens
  Visual TL;DR. Build a diagram and a short summary from an article. Pass title and content_html (HTML or the article text). Returns markdown and image_url. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• generate_youtube_article ~283 tokens
  Turn a YouTube URL into an article with a title, excerpt, HTML, and Markdown. Costs one YouTube-to-Article credit. If the call is slow, call get_youtube_transcript first, then call this tool again with url and transcript. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_advertiser_analytics ~239 tokens
  Live performance for ads owned by your account: impressions, clicks, CTR, daily trend, by-placement (article / profile_page / search / homepage / agent_readiness) and by-variant breakdown. Same JSON shape returned by GET /api/v1/advertiser/analytics and rendered in the /my-account?tab=ads dashboard.
• get_arbitrage ~278 tokens
  Live cross-venue prediction-market arbitrage board. Returns the same real-world events priced on Polymarket, Kalshi/Robinhood, and PredictIt side by side, with a real arbitrage flagged whenever the combined cost of locking a $1 payout drops under $1 (is_arbitrage=true, with roi_pct + profit_per_doll
• get_article_video ~101 tokens
  Poll an article-to-video job started by generate_article_video. Returns status, progress, and mp4_url when status is done. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_company_by_linkedin ~138 tokens
  Resolve a company from its LinkedIn URL and enrich it against our profile graph: funding, founders, sectors, score, domain, and technographics. Same result as POST /api/v1/companies/by-linkedin. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_company_funding ~119 tokens
  Funding intelligence for a company by domain: total raised, rounds, latest round, investors, and dates, drawn from our enrichment graph. Same result as GET /api/v1/companies/funding. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_company_hiring ~154 tokens
  Hiring-signal intelligence: companies actively posting roles, ranked by open-role velocity, with counts and links. A growth/traction signal for deal-flow and sales prospecting. Same result as GET /api/v1/companies/hiring. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_investor_by_domain ~115 tokens
  Look up a single investor (VC, angel, accelerator) by their website domain. Same shape as get_startup_by_domain, against the investors table. Useful when you have a fund's website and want fund profile / portfolio info. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_investor_by_social ~142 tokens
  Reverse-lookup an investor profile by their LinkedIn or Twitter URL/handle. Investor LinkedIns are typically /company/<slug>, but the lookup handles both /in/ and /company/ patterns. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_my_usage ~203 tokens
  Check the user's current credit balance: plan tier, daily + monthly limits per credit type (validate, discover, db, profile, logo, enrich, submit), used today, remaining today, used this month, remaining this month, and any never-expiring credit pack balance. Free to call (does NOT charge a credit):
• get_person_by_email ~107 tokens
  Reverse-lookup a person profile by their email address. Pairs naturally with discover_email + validate_email: discover an email, verify it, find the person record. Returns the full person profile. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_person_by_social ~201 tokens
  Reverse-lookup a person profile by any of their social URLs/handles. Pass linkedin, twitter, or github (full URL like https://www.linkedin.com/in/foo, OR just the handle 'foo'). Multiple params allowed: first match wins. Returns the full person profile + which platform matched. Needs a free StartupH
• get_startup ~59 tokens
  Get full profile for a startup by slug Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_startup_by_domain ~120 tokens
  Look up a single startup by its website domain. Accepts raw URLs (https://www.example.com/about), stripped (example.com), with or without paths. Returns the full profile. Use match_companies_by_domain instead for batches of 2+ domains. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_startup_funding_history ~142 tokens
  Full chronological list of investment rounds for a startup: amount, series, date, pre/post-money valuation, lead and participating investor IDs, plus a summary with total raised from rounds and the latest round date/series. Use after get_startup if you need round-by-round detail rather than just tot
• get_startup_socials ~136 tokens
  Lightweight endpoint that returns ONLY a startup's contact emails (contact / partnerships / press) and social URLs (LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Facebook, YouTube, Discord, Slack, etc.) plus HQ city/country. Cheaper than get_startup (1 db credit vs 1 profile credit) when you don't need the full row. N
• get_trends ~218 tokens
  Get a structured, real-time snapshot of what's happening in the AI startup ecosystem right now — capital deployed this week, top sectors and countries (with week-over-week change), biggest rounds, stage breakdown with median check sizes, emerging themes (3+ companies clustering on the same narrow pr
• get_youtube_clip ~96 tokens
  Poll a clip render started by render_youtube_clip. Returns status, progress, and mp4_url when status is done. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• get_youtube_transcript ~160 tokens
  Fetch the full transcript plus metadata (title, channel, duration) for any YouTube video. Accepts a watch, youtu.be, Shorts, or mobile URL, or a raw video ID. No LLM: returns the raw caption text for downstream summarization or repurposing. Same result as POST /api/v1/youtube/transcript. Needs a fre
• humanize_text ~185 tokens
  Humanize AI Text. Rewrite a passage so it reads as natural prose, without changing the facts. Up to 12 paragraphs and 20000 characters per call. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• list_credit_packs ~200 tokens
  Get credit pack pricing AND a checkout URL the user can open to buy more credits. Returns { buy_url: 'https://www.startuphub.ai/pricing?buy=credits', pricing: { validate: [...tiers], discover: [...tiers] } }: surface the buy_url to the user when they hit a 402 'credit_limit_exceeded' error or ask 'h
• list_monitor_watches ~72 tokens
  List company watches on this API key. Each watch covers pricing, jobs, news, and the other signals that plan allows. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• list_startup_team ~143 tokens
  Returns founders, current team, and board members for a startup, split by role. Each person record includes name, title, slug, LinkedIn, Twitter, description, and primary_email if visible to your plan tier. Use this to build org-charts, identify decision-makers for outreach, or enrich a startup reco
• match_companies_by_domain ~250 tokens
  Bulk-match an array of advertiser/company domains against StartupHub.ai's startup database. Returns per-domain whether the company is in our database, plus funding amount, latest round, investor IDs, sectors, founded date, and HQ country. Built for cross-reference workflows like 'what % of Google Ad
• publish_to_wordpress Sends messages · ~493 tokens
  Publish HTML to a WordPress site using the site's Application Password. Creates a post with the given title and HTML body. status is draft, publish, or pending. Default is draft. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• query_funding ~901 tokens
  Answer how much funding was raised, how many rounds closed, or how many companies were founded, for a country, sector, series, and year. This is the StartupHub /analysis chart as data. Use it for questions like 'how much funding did Canadian startups raise in 2026'. dataset=rounds (default) is annou
• render_youtube_clip ~241 tokens
  Render one YouTube clip. Pass video_url, start_seconds, end_seconds, and quote from suggest_youtube_clips. Returns a job id. Call get_youtube_clip until status is done. Requires an API key and charges clip credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• scan_agent_readiness ~262 tokens
  Scans a public site against current AI-agent readiness standards, including the llms.txt v2 shape (H1, summary, described links, and whether those links resolve). Returns a 0-100 score plus per-check pass/fail with a copy-paste fix prompt for each gap. A link to startuphub.ai in llms.txt or on the h
• scan_company_technology ~180 tokens
  Tech Stack Checker. Return hosting, frameworks, analytics, payments, and mail setup for a company website. Checks a stored fingerprint first, then a fresh live read when live=true. Accepts a URL or a plain domain. Costs 1 credit. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• scrape_youtube_videos Browses the web · ~326 tokens
  Video metadata for YouTube channels and video URLs, no transcripts. mode 'feed' (default) returns a channel's latest uploads, up to 15 per channel: title, date, views, likes, description, thumbnail ($1 per 1,000 videos). mode 'full' returns every watch-page field (duration, comments, subscriber coun
• search_domains ~635 tokens
  Domain radar: newly registered names from our discovery queue (NRD, registries, GitHub orgs). This is NOT a company profile. Returns apex, registration date, registrar, mailbox signal, quality score, and status (queued / quality_failed). startup_slug is set only after we promote a real homepage into
• search_investors ~756 tokens
  Find investors that match a startup's profile. Filter by sector_focus (e.g. 'Artificial Intelligence' for AI investors), stage_focus (Seed / Series A / etc.), geo_focus, cheque_min / cheque_max (matches investors whose cheque-size window overlaps the founder's raise), active_since (investors whose l
• search_people ~248 tokens
  Search founders, executives, board members, and key team members. Results are sorted by StartupHub score, highest first. Page with offset. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• search_startups ~2853 tokens
  Search the startup database with any combination of filters: name, sector, country, city radius, founded date, team size, the latest funding round (round_series, raised_after), total funding, valuation, investors (backed_by), StartupHub score, Agent Readiness score, tech stack, website state, stealt
• search_suggestions ~119 tokens
  Search Suggestion Explorer. Live autocomplete-style suggestions for a phrase. Use it before picking a title or keyphrase. Free, rate-limited.
• submit_exit_event ~328 tokens
  Announce an IPO / Acquisition / Merger / SPAC / Buyout / Closure for a startup you own. acquirer_name required for Acquisition/Merger; stock_exchange + ticker required for IPO/SPAC. Costs 5 credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• submit_funding_round ~427 tokens
  Announce a funding round for a startup you own (created_by must match your API key user). Strict: series from controlled vocab (Pre-seed/Seed/Series A.../Crowdfunding), USD amount, YYYY-MM-DD date, third-person description. Optional lead/participating investor slugs. Deduped: same startup + same ser
• submit_investor ~358 tokens
  Submit a new investor profile (VC, angel, accelerator, etc.). Lists it on the free plan immediately, same as submit_startup. Third-person prose, no HTML/markdown, no listicle titles. Costs 5 credits. Deduped by website domain or name and country. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• submit_list ~464 tokens
  Submit a new editorial list (e.g. "Top 10 AI dev-tools startups", "Best seed-stage fintech companies") to StartupHub.ai for moderation review. Lists are collections of existing startups, investors, and/or people on the site: provide their slugs. Optional rich content (HTML or text body) for the list
• submit_news ~298 tokens
  Submit a news article / press release. Strict: third-person, controlled categories, 100–10000 words. Dedup by source_url or by similar title within 30d. Lands in pending status; admin approves. Costs 5 credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• submit_patent ~286 tokens
  Submit a patent record. patent_number required (e.g. "US12345678B2"). Dedup by patent_number. Costs 5 credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• submit_person ~269 tokens
  Submit a new person profile (founder, executive, board member). Lists them on the free plan immediately. Requires either current_title or linkedin_url. Third-person bio. Costs 5 credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• submit_product ~668 tokens
  Submit a product / tool / API / library / agent / model / dataset / hardware onto an existing company or organization. startup_slug or startup_id is required. Costs 5 credits. Strict format: third-person prose, no HTML/markdown, no listicle titles. Optional logo_url and screenshot_urls (up to 6) are
• submit_research ~227 tokens
  Submit a research paper / preprint for inclusion. Optional startup link. Dedup by arxiv_id or doi. Costs 5 credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• submit_startup ~460 tokens
  Submit a new startup profile. A website is enough. Name, description, and sectors are optional. If you send only a website, the profile is listed on the free plan and the rest is filled in from that site. Gambling and adult content stay hidden. Upgrade is optional later. When you do send prose: thir
• suggest_youtube_clips ~193 tokens
  YouTube to Clips. Pick moments from a captioned public video, with timestamps and the on-screen quote. If status is processing, call this again with the same url. Render one result with render_youtube_clip. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• update_investor ~342 tokens
  Update an investor you previously submitted. Pass slug plus only the fields to change. The profile stays on the free listing. An edit does not hide it. Costs 1 db credit. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• update_person ~176 tokens
  Update a person you previously submitted. Pass slug plus only the fields to change. The profile stays on the free listing. An edit does not hide it. Costs 1 db credit. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• update_product ~284 tokens
  Update a product you previously submitted (new feature, pricing, or a new version). Pass slug plus only the fields to change. An edit does not hide a live product. Costs 1 db credit. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.
• update_startup ~416 tokens
  Update a startup you submitted (API key user matches created_by) or that you have a verified claim on. Pass slug plus only the fields to change. The profile stays on the free listing. An edit does not hide it or turn it into a bill. Costs 1 submit credit. Same validation as submit_startup. Needs a f
• validate_email ~160 tokens
  Verify if a single email address is real and deliverable. Returns {valid, status, confidence_score}. Use when you already know the address (e.g. from a contact page, LinkedIn, or a prior discover_email run) and want to confirm it before sending. To go from a person's name → verified email instead, u

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