StartupDB

What StartupDB is

StartupDB is a free database of startups, investors, and people, with records of investment relationships and funding rounds. Company records can include round dates, amounts, investor roles, and source URLs, and each fact links to its source. Data is drawn from reviewed public investor portfolio pages, public news, company and investor websites, and edits by staff, founders, and investors. A read-only MCP server and REST API are available without an account or API key. The MCP server provides six tools to search investors, startups, and people and retrieve individual records; its setup guide covers Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Codex, while other MCP clients can connect over Streamable HTTP. The REST API has GET endpoints for searching and retrieving records, investor portfolios, and company funding activity, with JSON responses. Both interfaces are limited to 120 requests per minute per IP, with no daily cap. StartupDB cautions that its coverage is incomplete, so an absent record does not establish that a round or investor does not exist. Dataset facts and compilation are licensed under CC BY 4.0 for commercial reuse with attribution; third-party logos, photos, and site text are excluded.