Crunchbase MCP connector
The Crunchbase connector brings company profiles, funding rounds, investors, people, IPOs and events into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and any MCP client, so anyone signed in can research and compare companies within their own Crunchbase access.
- Connects with an API key
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
ChatGPT
Elaichi connected
Pull the latest funding round for our top prospect.
Working in Crunchbase with Elaichi
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Crunchbase autocompletes search
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Governance
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Audit log
Last 24 hours
ChatGPT · 9:41 AM
Done
ChatGPT · 9:41 AM
Done
ChatGPT · 9:41 AM
Done
Claude · 9:38 AM
Done
Cursor · 9:35 AM
Done
How to connect Crunchbase to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
Crunchbase MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Crunchbase MCP connector for Claude Code
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In a terminal, run
claude mcp addwith the endpoint.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Start Claude Code and run
/mcp. -
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Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.
Terminal
$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.
Crunchbase MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Crunchbase MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Crunchbase MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot
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In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.
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Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.
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Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.
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Under Channels, open Teams and Microsoft Copilot and make the agent available in Microsoft Copilot.
- Server URL
- https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Type
- Dynamic discovery
Microsoft Copilot was called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Keep the tool on end-user credentials, so each person signs in as themselves.
Connect Crunchbase to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
What teams do with Crunchbase through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Crunchbase is logged.
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Sales
Qualify a prospect before the first call
Ask for a company's Crunchbase profile, its latest funding round, headcount range and who invested, and walk into the call knowing whether they have budget and momentum.
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Business development
Build a target list from recent raises
Pull every company in a sector that closed a Series A or B in the last quarter, with investors and locations, and hand the list to the team the same morning.
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Marketing
Spot companies to feature or partner with
Search Crunchbase for organizations that just announced funding or an IPO and draft outreach while the news is still fresh.
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Corporate development
Map who owns what before a deal
Look up ownership records, funding history and investors for an acquisition target and get a one-page summary without opening a dozen Crunchbase tabs.
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Research
Compare competitors on funding and growth
Line up several companies side by side on total raised, last round, founding year and key people, and turn it into a short brief for leadership.
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Partnerships
Find who is speaking at an event
Check which companies and people appear at an upcoming conference in Crunchbase and prepare a shortlist of who to meet there.
Try asking
- “Pull the latest funding round for our top prospect.”
- “List new organizations added in fintech this week.”
- “Show recent event appearances for our target accounts.”
What connecting Crunchbase gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Crunchbase account.
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Pull the latest funding round for our top prospect.
List new organizations added in fintech this week.
Show recent event appearances for our target accounts.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask about any company, get a live answer.
Type a question about an organization or person and get answers pulled from live Crunchbase records.
ElaichiAI appsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Microsoft Copilot
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
One Crunchbase endpoint, every client you use.
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot connect to Crunchbase through one governed org endpoint, no SDK, no shared key.
ElaichiToolsTool catalog
52 Crunchbase tools, zero custom code.
Browse organizations, people, events and appearances, all cataloged and ready to call.
ElaichiToolboxesToolboxes
Every team gets its own Crunchbase toolbox.
Sales, research and marketing each work from a toolbox scoped to their own Crunchbase needs.
ElaichiConnectionsShared connections
Delegated Crunchbase access, no shared credentials.
See who connected each Crunchbase account and how many teams and members work through it.
ElaichiAudit logAudit log
Every Crunchbase lookup, logged and attributable.
See who ran what against Crunchbase, when, and which record it touched.
From answering questions to doing the work
A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations, collections and live dashboards come with the Black plan.
Crunchbase digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch organizations
Crunchbase
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Jake Morgan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Crunchbase
Queued
Automations
A schedule fires, Crunchbase records do the rest.
A trigger pulls new Crunchbase organizations, groups them, drafts a digest, and waits for approval before posting.
Crunchbase health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the organizations collection
Organizations
1,284 ↓ 12%
People
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Organizations created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Sales EMEA 34%
Sales NA 27%
Research 21%
Marketing 18%
Collections and dashboards
Crunchbase health, computed, not asked for.
A refreshing dashboard tracks four metrics and 14 days of records created by team.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Crunchbase
All three can connect Crunchbase to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over Crunchbase tools | Allow or restrict single Crunchbase tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per Crunchbase call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | Free for one person; $15 per user per month on Gold. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
Crunchbase tools for your AI agents
52 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Crunchbase, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
No tools match your search.
Questions, answered
How do I connect Crunchbase to Claude?
Connect Crunchbase in Elaichi first, then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Crunchbase's own sign-in step is pasting the API key from your Crunchbase account into Elaichi, which takes a minute. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate.
Does Crunchbase work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Crunchbase is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Crunchbase once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Crunchbase data?
With Crunchbase connected, an agent can look up a company or person, pull funding rounds, investors, ownership, IPOs and event appearances, and search for companies that match a description such as a sector, location or recent raise. It then summarizes or compares what it finds in plain language. Because Crunchbase has many lookups, short concrete asks like "latest funding round for Acme" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Crunchbase give the AI everything in Crunchbase?
No. Every request runs under the Crunchbase API key of the person who signed in, so the agent sees exactly what that person's Crunchbase plan allows, no more. Elaichi can narrow that access further, for example to company lookups only, but it can never widen it beyond what Crunchbase itself grants.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Crunchbase?
The Crunchbase connector only reads records, so an agent cannot create, edit or delete anything in Crunchbase through it. You can still restrict individual actions, such as people searches, per role in Elaichi. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.
What happens to a Crunchbase connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Crunchbase through every client at once, whether they connected it themselves or used a shared connection. A shared Crunchbase connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you disconnect Crunchbase once in Elaichi, it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and every other client at the same time.
Does the Crunchbase MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Crunchbase is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Crunchbase?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Crunchbase. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Crunchbase call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Crunchbase?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Crunchbase: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Crunchbase in front of your team
14 days of Black, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
When the trial ends, nothing is deleted. You move to the free Personal plan, and connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are.
Add one link to your AI app
The same link for everyone on your team.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Cursor
- Microsoft Copilot