Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code live access to Value Add VC's companies, investors, funding rounds, SEC Form D filings and daily venture news. Every figure comes with its date and source, so your assistant can cite it.
Server URL
https://valueaddvc.com/api/mcp
Customize → Connectors → + Add custom connector, paste the server URL, leave the OAuth fields empty, and click Add. Team and Enterprise owners: Organization settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web. Works on Free (one custom connector), Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise.
https://valueaddvc.com/api/mcp
Run once in your terminal:
claude mcp add --transport http valueaddvc https://valueaddvc.com/api/mcp
Turn on Developer mode (Settings → Security and login), then create a developer-mode app for a remote MCP server: paste the server URL and choose No authentication. Available on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education on the web.
https://valueaddvc.com/api/mcp
Add to Cursor (opens Cursor and asks to confirm), or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"valueaddvc": {
"url": "https://valueaddvc.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Install in VS Code, or run:
code --add-mcp '{"name":"valueaddvc","type":"http","url":"https://valueaddvc.com/api/mcp"}'Or add to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"valueaddvc": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://valueaddvc.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Streamable HTTP transport, stateless, JSON responses. Speaks protocol 2026-07-28 and the 2025-11-25 / 2025-06-18 / 2025-03-26 initialize handshake. Read-only tools, no auth.
https://valueaddvc.com/api/mcp
search_entitiesFind a company or investor by name or alias; returns the slug for the profile tools.
Try: “Is Anysphere in Value Add VC's data? What's its slug?”
get_companyValuation, total raised, funding rounds with leads, investors and news — every figure dated and sourced.
Try: “How much has Anthropic raised, and who led its last round?”
get_investorA firm's funds, portfolio, stage and sector mix, recent deals and co-investors.
Try: “What has Sequoia Capital invested in recently, and who does it co-invest with?”
recent_fundingNotable rounds covered on Value Add Pulse in the last N days.
Try: “Which AI startups raised more than $50M in the last two weeks?”
wire_roundsRounds parsed from ~25 wire and trade-press feeds, global, refreshed hourly.
Try: “Show me seed rounds announced this week with their lead investors.”
search_filingsVenture-relevant SEC Form D filings by issuer name: amount sold, first sale, officers, EDGAR link.
Try: “Has Cityblock Health filed a Form D this year? How much did it sell?”
recent_filingsNewest venture-relevant Form D raises, filterable by amount, state and industry.
Try: “List New York tech companies that filed a Form D over $10M in the last 30 days.”
fund_filingsVC and PE fund Form Ds: target, amount raised, closed or still raising.
Try: “Which venture funds over $100M filed a Form D this month?”
pulse_latestThe newest Value Add Pulse stories with a one-line insight and source.
Try: “What are today's biggest venture and AI stories?”
pulse_searchKeyword search across the Value Add Pulse archive (2026).
Try: “Find recent coverage of humanoid robotics funding.”
url each record carries. See our editorial standards.A free, read-only Model Context Protocol server at https://valueaddvc.com/api/mcp. It lets AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code look up companies, investors, funding rounds, SEC Form D filings and venture news from Value Add VC, with the date and source of every figure.
No. The server is free and needs no account, API key or OAuth. Add the URL as a connector in your AI client and start asking questions.
Wire and trade-press funding rounds refresh hourly, SEC Form D filings daily, and profiles as new sources arrive. Coverage is a curated slice of the market: 1,200+ profiled companies and 1,600+ investors, plus venture-relevant US SEC Form D filings since April 2026 (operating companies and VC/PE funds; real estate, energy, banking, insurance and similar industries are excluded). A company we don't profile is not evidence it doesn't exist.
The server says the company is not in Value Add VC's verified data yet and shows any SEC Form D filings that match the name, clearly labelled unverified. It says "queued for research" only when the miss has been written to our research queue. Each night the most-requested queued names are searched once on the public web to classify them. A company is added only if reputable sources confirm it and every fact is backed by a quote we re-check; anything else is discarded. Investment firms are recorded as demand but not yet added automatically, and if a name turns out to be a person we stop and keep nothing about them. We make no promise about when, or whether, a name is added.
Yes: 300 requests per hour per IP address. Batch requests count each message. If you need more for a research project, contact Trace Cohen.
When a lookup finds nothing we store the normalized search text, the tool name, a count and minute-level times in Vercel Blob. We never store an IP address, user agent, account or conversation content, and searches that look like an email, phone number, URL or ID are dropped. The nightly research job searches each processed name once to classify it, then discards it: only names identified as companies or investment firms appear in our research report, and everything else is kept at most as a count (plus a one-way hash for 14 days so it is not searched twice). Queries not processed within 14 days of first being seen are deleted.