StartupHub People & Intel

StartupHub People & Intel MCP Connector for Claude

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Find founders and investors, discover verified professional emails, and unlock deep-intelligence dossiers.

11 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Connect StartupHub.ai to your AI agent and work the people side of deal-flow and outreach: find who runs a company, get a verified way to reach them, and pull a regulatory-grade dossier when the stakes are high.

What you can do

  • Find people — Search founders, executives, board members and key team members by name, title, country, sector or tags (Unit 8200, Serial Entrepreneur, Has Exits)
  • Resolve anyone — One tool for slug, email or LinkedIn/X handle lookups; no more guessing which endpoint fits which identifier
  • Find verified emails — Give a name and a company domain, get back a deliverable address; verify an address you already have; or turn a single email into a person plus their company
  • Find investors — Search VCs, angels, accelerators and CVCs, then match a startup to its best-fit investors by sector overlap, activity and stage
  • Preview deep intelligence (0 credits) — See exactly which dossier sections exist for a person or company before spending a credit
  • Unlock full dossiers — Regulatory and corporate filings, ownership and control structures, fund assets under management, compensation benchmarks and verified contacts, every section unredacted
  • Score agent readiness — Scan any site for AI-agent readiness; the failed checks are ready-made outreach hooks

How it works

  1. Add this server to your agent
  2. Add your StartupHub API key (Account → API) — required for every tool; anonymous calls are rejected with a payment challenge
  3. Ask: "find the CTO of that cybersecurity startup and get me their verified email"

Who is this for?

  • Founders fundraising — build an investor list ranked by real fit, not logo bias
  • Recruiters and sourcers — reach founders and executives with verified contacts
  • Sales and partnerships — identify the right person and a deliverable email in two calls
  • Risk and compliance teams — deep dossiers from authoritative public records
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11 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

scan_agent_readiness

txt, llms.txt, structured data, crawlability and content depth, then returns a score, a letter grade and a per-check breakdown where each failure carries a copy-paste fix prompt. The outreach hook: failed checks are exactly what to lead with ("your site scores 23/100 for agents, here is what is missing"). Free with an API key; without one the API demands per-call crypto payment. Score any website 0-100 for AI-agent readiness, with per-check fix prompts

get_person

Costs 1 credit. Full contact fields are plan-gated; the response includes whatever your tier allows. For an email you already have, enrich_email gives you the person AND their company in one call (5 credits). Fetch a person by slug, email or social handle — one tool for all three lookups

intel_lookup

Compiles regulatory and corporate filings, financial ownership and control structures, fund assets under management, compensation benchmarks by role, affiliated entities and verified contacts — from authoritative public records, with people automatically linked to the companies and funds they control. Run intel_preview first: it is free and shows exactly which sections will be populated, so you never spend 10 credits on an empty dossier. Full deep-intelligence dossier on any person or company, every section unredacted

discover_email

Costs 3 credits. If the first attempt returns no match, retry once with the same arguments — the first call sometimes warms the lookup cache. Do not chain validate_email behind this tool: discovery already validates every candidate it returns. Find a professional email address for a person, given their name and company domain

enrich_email

Costs 5 credits. When the person is unknown it returns a best-guess name derived from the address — treat unverified names as a hypothesis, not a fact. The natural pair: enrich_email opens the conversation, then company_funding in the enrich server deepens the account. Turn one email address into a person plus their company context

match_investors

Returns ranked matches with a fit score and a breakdown of sector overlap, activity and stage. Costs 1 credit. This is the fundraising workflow: find your startup with search_startups (discovery server) or resolve_company (enrich server), then match it to investors here. Find the best-fit investors for a startup — or the best-fit startups for an investor

get_investor

Costs 1 credit. Returns type, sector and stage focus, cheque size, portfolio and funds (fields scale with plan tier). Fetch an investor record by slug, website domain or social handle

search_investors

Costs 1 credit. Slugs from here feed get_investor for cheque size, sector/stage focus and portfolio. Search VCs, angels, accelerators, corporate and PE investors by name, country or type

search_people

Each result returns name, slug, title, city, country, sectors, score and tags (e.g. "Unit 8200", "Serial Entrepreneur", "Has Exits"). Costs 1 credit, paginated with limit/offset. Slugs from here feed get_person; combine with discover_email in this server to reach out. Search founders, executives and key team members by name, title, country, sector or tag

validate_email

Costs 1 credit. Do not run this on the output of discover_email — discovery validates internally and double-validating only wastes credits. Verify whether a single email address is real and deliverable

intel_preview

Pass any identifier — a name, a company, a domain, a LinkedIn URL or an email. Returns who was resolved and which sections exist (regulatory filings, ownership and control, fund assets, compensation benchmarks, affiliated entities, verified contacts) with a teaser, but not the values. Use it to check whether a dossier is worth unlocking before spending 10 credits on intel_lookup. Preview a deep-intelligence dossier: identity plus a manifest of available sections. Costs 0 credits, but still needs the API key

See how to talk to your AI agent using StartupHub People & Intel.

Find the CEO of Anthropic and get me a verified email.

search_people found Dario Amodei (slug `dario-amodei`, "CEO and Co-founder at Anthropic"). discover_email with firstName=Dario, lastName=Amodei, domain=anthropic.com returned [email protected] with confidence 95. The address is deliverable — discovery validates internally, so no extra verification call needed.

Which investors are the best fit for our startup, acme-security.com?

resolve_company (enrich server) gave me your slug `acme-security` — Cybersecurity, Israel, seed stage. match_investors ranked 12 investors: top fit is Example Ventures (82 — sector overlap 40, activity 30, stage 12), which closed 4 rounds in the last 90 days. Want me to pull its cheque size and portfolio focus with get_investor?

StartupHub's hosted MCP exposes only a few free utilities. This server covers the people, investor and intelligence half of the API — people search, multi-identifier resolution, email discovery and verification, investor matching, and the deep-intelligence dossiers — with unified lookups so you never have to pick the right endpoint.

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