CB Insights MCP for AI. Instantly map market competition & funding flows.
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How this MCP server connects to your AI agent
CB Insights tracks market intelligence across entire industries. It lets you instantly research any company, track its full funding history from seed rounds to IPOs, map out its direct competitors, and analyze the investment portfolio of major venture capital firms using your AI client.
What AI agents can do with CB Insights Automation
Chat cbi
Allows you to ask natural language questions about markets, trends, or technologies directly using CB Insights' knowledge base.
Check cbi status
Verifies that your connection to the CB Insights data source is active and working correctly.
Get deal
Retrieves specific details on a single investment deal, including amounts and dates.
Retrieve full corporate details for any organization, including its industry classification and employee count.
Get a complete timeline of an organization's funding rounds, noting the amounts raised and which investors led the deal.
Identify direct market competitors for a specific company based on their industry positioning and funding patterns.
List recent investment deals across the market or filter them by a specific organization you care about.
View an investor's entire background, their fund strategy, and every company they have backed.
Use natural language to ask complex questions about market trends or technology sectors and receive data-backed answers.
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What AI agents can do with CB Insights: 13 Powerful Tools
These tools give your agent direct access to market intelligence functions, allowing you to query specific company details, track deals, or map out competitive landscapes.
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Allows you to ask natural language questions about markets, trends, or technologies directly using CB Insights' knowledge base.
Check Cbi Status
Verifies that your connection to the CB Insights data source is active and working...
Get Deal
Retrieves specific details on a single investment deal, including amounts and dates.
Get Investor
Pulls up the full profile for an investor or fund, detailing their strategies and...
Get Org Competitors
Identifies a list of direct competitors for any given company based on market data...
Get Org Funding
Retrieves the complete funding history, amounts, and lead investors for a specific organization.
Get Organization
Fetches detailed profiles on companies by name, including industry classification and employee count.
Get Investor Portfolio
Displays all the companies backed by a specific investor, along with investment...
List Deals By Org
Lists all recorded deals specifically associated with an organization's funding...
List Deals
Provides a list of the most recent investment deals across the entire market...
List Industries
Retrieves a comprehensive list of industries covered by CB Insights' database for...
List Investors
Provides a searchable directory of known investment firms and venture capital groups.
List Organizations
Searches the database by name or criteria to find specific companies and their basic profiles.
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The manual headache of tracking venture capital deal flow., Solved with Vinkius AI Gateway
Today, figuring out where a company stands financially means opening multiple tabs: one for the company profile, another for Crunchbase, and then maybe an investor site just to see who backed them. You spend hours copy-pasting funding round details into spreadsheets just to map out the full financial narrative.
With this MCP, you simply ask your agent about a firm's market position or its investment history. The system pulls all that data—the company profile, the deal records, the investors involved—and gives you one coherent answer right in the chat window.
Get full funding intelligence with get_org_funding.
Manual tracking requires finding every press release and then manually stitching together which investor led which round. It's slow, error-prone work that leaves huge gaps in the historical record.
Now, running get_org_funding gives you a single, comprehensive timeline of capital raised, showing amounts and lead investors from Seed to IPO without leaving your workflow.
What your AI can actually do with this
Need to know what's happening in a fast-moving sector? This MCP connects CB Insights data directly to your agent. You can use natural conversation to research entire markets, pull up full company profiles, or track how much money an organization has raised over time. For example, you can ask about the top competitors of any firm and get a list based on market overlap.
It also lets you explore major investor portfolios—you'll see exactly which companies firms like Sequoia Capital have backed and what their average check size is. Getting this data used to involve jumping between dozens of terminals and reports; now, through Vinkius, it’s all available in your AI client with simple conversation.
You get actionable business intelligence without ever leaving your workflow.
019dd0ca-2866-71b6-a78e-498261fff137 Here's how it actually works
The bottom line is you get structured market intelligence and deal data delivered right into your AI conversation flow.
Subscribe to this MCP, then enter your CB Insights Client ID and Secret keys.
Connect your preferred AI client (like Claude or Cursor) to Vinkius to activate the connection.
Start by asking your agent a question—for instance, 'What are the competitors of Company X?'—and it handles the rest.
Who is this actually for?
This MCP is for people who live on competitive edge. If your job requires knowing the financial background of a company before making a move, this tool saves hours of manual digging.
Checking deal flow instantly to validate funding histories or screen competitor landscapes without switching tools.
Monitoring market movements and assessing potential investment targets by tracking emerging competitors conversationally.
Researching investors' backgrounds, understanding competitive dynamics in the industry, and preparing data for fundraising pitches.
What Changes When You Connect
You cut out the manual research phase. Instead of browsing multiple sites to track a company's finances, you use get_org_funding and instantly see its entire financial timeline within your chat interface.
Competitor identification is immediate. Just ask for competitors using get_org_competitors and get a data-backed list of rivals based on market positioning, not just surface searches.
You save time researching funding sources. Instead of reading multiple press releases, use the chat_cbi tool to query investor profiles (get_investor) and understand their full fund strategy in seconds.
It centralizes your data. You can list all recent deals with list_deals and then filter down using list_deals_by_org to focus only on the companies relevant to your pitch deck.
You gain visibility into capital sources. By checking an investor’s portfolio via get_investor_portfolio, you know exactly which firms are backing the companies you are researching.
See it in action
Evaluating a Potential Acquisition Target
A corporate strategy lead wants to buy Company Z. They ask their agent to run get_organization on Company Z, then use get_org_funding to check the last four funding rounds. The agent immediately shows them the total capital raised, which informs the valuation and due diligence process.
Prepping for a Seed Round Pitch
A founder needs to prove they understand their market. They use chat_cbi to ask about 'AI infrastructure trends' and get data points on emerging technologies, then use list_industries to classify their niche accurately.
Vetting a New Investor Relationship
A VC analyst is interested in Sequoia Capital. They run get_investor and see the full portfolio using get_investor_portfolio, immediately checking if any of their rivals are already backed by that fund.
Competitive Landscape Audit
A product manager asks about a competitor's market overlap. They run get_org_competitors on their own company and instantly receive a list of the top 5 firms, along with key data points for comparison.
The honest tradeoffs
Treating it like a simple search engine
Typing 'tech companies' into your agent and expecting a simple list of names. This ignores the deep financial and market context.
To get actual intelligence, use chat_cbi to ask a complex question like, 'What is the total funding raised by AI startups in Q4 2023?' or run list_industries first.
Ignoring firm-to-firm links
Finding Company A and then running get_organization to get its details, but failing to check who funded it.
Always follow up by checking the funding history using get_org_funding. This shows you not just what they did, but who paid for it.
Confusing a deal with an investor
Seeing a list of deals (list_deals) and assuming the company was funded by all listed investors.
Always cross-reference. Use get_deal to find specific funding details, and then use get_investor for clarity on who actually participated in that round.
When It Fits, When It Doesn't
Use this MCP if your decision relies on financial history or market structure. If you need to know 'who backed whom,' 'how much money was raised,' or 'who competes with us based on funding patterns,' this is the right tool. It's built for deep, quantitative strategic analysis.
Don't use it if you just need general news updates or simple directory lookups. If your goal is simply to find a company name and its basic location, using list_organizations might be enough. But if you need context—like knowing that Company X’s funding history (get_org_funding) indicates they are pivoting away from their original focus—then this MCP is essential.
Questions you might have
How can I use CB Insights with my AI client for market research? +
You interact using natural conversation. You don't need to know API calls; you just ask your agent what specific sector or company data you want, and the MCP handles the rest.
Does CB Insights provide basic company search? (list_organizations) +
Yes, list_organizations lets you search for companies by name. You can also get more detail on a specific firm using get_organization to check its industry and employee count.
What if I need to track my competitor's funding rounds? +
You use the get_org_funding tool, first finding your competitor's profile with list_organizations. Then, you run the funding query to see their full financial timeline.
Can CB Insights help me understand investor strategies? (get_investor) +
Absolutely. By using get_investor, you can pull up an investor's profile and view their fund strategy or examine every single company they have backed via get_investor_portfolio.
Is this MCP just for large tech companies? +
No. While it handles major players, you can use list_organizations to search for smaller firms and analyze their market positioning using get_org_competitors.
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