# Builders in Fintech (remote · buildersinfintech.ai)

Fintech funding rounds, companies, investors and podcast knowledge. Free, keyless, CC BY 4.0.

- Trust score: 77/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-05

## Components

- remote · `buildersinfintech.ai`: 77/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data/buildersinfintech.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data/buildersinfintech)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 85/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 2326 tokens (~122/item across 19 items; 19 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 19 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 20 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Builders in Fintech MCP server?

Builders in Fintech is a hosted endpoint at https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data 'https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data": {
      "url": "https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data]
url = "https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data --url 'https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data:
    url: "https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data -t streamable-http -u 'https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-04 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-02 (score 76, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-01 (score 75)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (19)

### `search_organizations` (~160 tokens)

Search companies and investors

Search fintech companies and investors by name, kind or country. Returns public profiles with canonical URLs. Arguments: q (or query): text to search for, matched against the name. With no q the tool returns a plain alphabetical list (first 25 by default). Unknown arguments are rejected.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Country as a slug ('italy') or a two-letter ISO code ('IT'); case-insensitive.
- `kind` (string): Restrict to companies or investors.
- `limit` (integer): Max rows (≤200).
- `q` (string): q (or query): text to search for. Omit for a plain alphabetical list.
- `query` (string): Alias of q; q wins if both are sent.

### `get_organization` (~76 tokens)

Get a company or investor

Full public profile for one organization by slug: description, country, funding rounds (raised or led), people, any disclosure, our published coverage of it (articles, newsletter issues, podcast episodes), and its products (company-provided, not part of the CC BY dataset).

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Organization slug from its URL.

### `search_people` (~112 tokens)

Search people

Search founders, operators and investors covered by the publication. Arguments: q (or query): text to search for, matched against the full name. With no q the tool returns a plain alphabetical list (first 25 by default). Unknown arguments are rejected.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Max rows (≤200).
- `q` (string): q (or query): text to search for. Omit for a plain alphabetical list.
- `query` (string): Alias of q; q wins if both are sent.

### `get_person` (~35 tokens)

Get a person

Full public profile for one person by slug: bio, roles and coverage.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Person slug from their URL.

### `list_funding_rounds` (~241 tokens)

List funding rounds

Approved funding rounds, newest first, with optional filters and keyset pagination. Pass the returned next_cursor fields (after_date, after_id) to get the next page.

Input parameters:

- `after_date` (string): Cursor: announced date of the last row seen.
- `after_id` (string): Cursor: id of the last row seen.
- `amount_min` (number): Minimum disclosed amount in the announced currency.
- `category` (string): Round category: equity, debt, fund (fund close), grant or ipo (initial public offering; amount is the offering size when disclosed).
- `country` (string): Country as a slug ('italy') or a two-letter ISO code ('IT'); case-insensitive. Matches the company's country.
- `currency` (string): Currency code, e.g. 'EUR'.
- `from` (string): Earliest announced date (YYYY-MM-DD).
- `limit` (integer): Max rows (≤200).
- `round_type` (string): Round type, e.g. 'Series A'.
- `to` (string): Latest announced date (YYYY-MM-DD).
- `topic` (string): Topic slug.

### `largest_rounds` (~53 tokens)

Largest funding rounds

Largest disclosed equity rounds, ranked per currency (amounts are never converted between currencies).

Input parameters:

- `per_currency` (integer): Rows per currency (≤200).
- `year` (integer): Restrict to one calendar year.

### `most_active_investors` (~165 tokens)

Most active investors

Investors ranked by the number of approved rounds they appear in. Category defaults to equity. With a country, only rounds of companies headquartered in that country are counted; the country may be a slug ('italy') or a two-letter ISO code ('IT'), case-insensitive.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Round category (equity, debt, fund, grant, ipo). Defaults to equity.
- `country` (string): Country as a slug ('italy') or a two-letter ISO code ('IT'); case-insensitive. Counts rounds of companies headquartered there.
- `from` (string): Earliest announced date (YYYY-MM-DD).
- `limit` (integer): Max rows (≤200).
- `to` (string): Latest announced date (YYYY-MM-DD).

### `funding_summary` (~143 tokens)

Funding totals

Counts for a slice of the funding database: rounds, countries, totals per announced currency, undisclosed rounds and rounds per category. Note: rounds, per_currency and undisclosed count equity rounds only, while by_category covers every category (equity, debt, fund, grant, ipo), so the category split can sum higher than the round count.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Country as a slug ('italy') or a two-letter ISO code ('IT'); case-insensitive.
- `from` (string): Earliest announced date (YYYY-MM-DD).
- `to` (string): Latest announced date (YYYY-MM-DD).
- `topic` (string): Topic slug.

### `get_funding_index` (~203 tokens)

Get the Funding Index

The weekly Builders Fintech Funding Index of approved equity rounds (ISO weeks). Arguments: week (optional, 'YYYY-Www', e.g. '2026-W39') returns that week; otherwise the latest weeks, newest first. weeks (optional, 1–104, default 1) sets how many. Count Index = rounds this week / average of the prior 12 weeks × 100. USD median index uses disclosed USD rounds only (needs 5). Amounts are never converted. Published values are frozen; revised_* shows later corrections. coverage_affected is true when a coverage change falls in the week or its 12-week baseline; coverage_note then explains how the index overstates activity. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Input parameters:

- `week` (string): ISO week, 'YYYY-Www' (e.g. '2026-W39'). Omit for the latest.
- `weeks` (integer): How many recent weeks (default 1).

### `get_investor_scorecard` (~97 tokens)

Get an investor's follow-on scorecard

Follow-on scorecard for one investor by slug: of the portfolio companies it first backed at least the window ago, the share that raised a later approved round (equity or IPO) within the window, at least gap_days after entry. Only returned when the investor has at least min_eligible eligible companies. Arguments: slug (required). Unknown arguments are rejected.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Investor slug from its URL.

### `search_products` (~235 tokens)

Search fintech products

Search fintech products by text, category, market, API availability or customer type. Company-provided, not part of the CC BY dataset. Each result carries provided_by, last_confirmed_at and sponsored; sponsorship never changes ordering. Arguments: q (or query) matched against name and short description; with no q the tool lists products alphabetically. cursor is the opaque next_cursor from a previous page. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Input parameters:

- `api_available` (boolean): Only products with (true) or without (false) an API.
- `category` (string): Category slug, e.g. 'payments'.
- `country` (string): Market. Country as a slug ('italy') or a two-letter ISO code ('IT'); case-insensitive.
- `cursor` (string): next_cursor from the previous page.
- `customer_type` (string): Customer type.
- `limit` (integer): Max rows (≤200).
- `q` (string): q (or query): text to search for. Omit for a plain alphabetical list.
- `query` (string): Alias of q; q wins if both are sent.

### `get_product` (~78 tokens)

Get a fintech product

Full public listing for one product by slug: description, category, markets, customer type, API, pricing model, links and the company. Company-provided, not part of the CC BY dataset. Each result carries provided_by, last_confirmed_at and sponsored; sponsorship never changes ordering.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Product slug from its URL.

### `search_content` (~133 tokens)

Search the publication

Full-text search across published news, newsletter issues, podcast episodes and public entity pages. Arguments: q (or query): text to search for, at least 2 characters — required, this tool has no plain-list mode. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Input parameters:

- `kinds` (array): Restrict to kinds, e.g. ['news','podcast','organization'].
- `limit` (integer): Max rows (≤200).
- `q` (string): q (or query): text to search for (required, min 2 characters).
- `query` (string): Alias of q; q wins if both are sent.

### `get_content` (~69 tokens)

Get an article, issue or episode

One published item by type and slug, with its body text (truncated), topics, countries, organizations and people. News items also include a corrections array (date + note), newest first.

Input parameters:

- `content_type` (string, required): Which section.
- `slug` (string, required): Slug from the URL.

### `search_podcast_knowledge` (~255 tokens)

Search podcast facts and Q&A

Search attributed facts and question-and-answer pairs from Builders in Fintech podcast episodes (as stated by the guest, not independently verified). Arguments: q (or query) matched against fact text, and against questions and answers; organization (slug) = facts linked to that company or investor; person (slug) = facts said by that person; fact_type (figure, fact, plan, view); episode (podcast episode slug); limit; cursor (next_cursor from the previous page). With no q the tool lists the newest facts. The qa array is returned only when q is given and honours q and episode only. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Input parameters:

- `cursor` (string): next_cursor from the previous page.
- `episode` (string): Podcast episode slug.
- `fact_type` (string): Kind of fact.
- `limit` (integer): Max facts (≤50).
- `organization` (string): Organization slug: facts linked to it.
- `person` (string): Person slug: facts said by them.
- `q` (string): q (or query): text to search for. Omit to list the newest facts.
- `query` (string): Alias of q; q wins if both are sent.

### `list_events` (~112 tokens)

List fintech events

Approved fintech events, upcoming by default, with optional country, format, topic and month filters.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Country as a slug ('italy') or a two-letter ISO code ('IT'); case-insensitive.
- `format` (string): Event format.
- `limit` (integer): Max rows (≤200).
- `month` (string): Month as YYYY-MM.
- `topic` (string): Topic slug.
- `upcoming` (boolean): Only events that have not ended yet (default true).

### `list_topics` (~27 tokens)

List topics

Every public topic with its slug and URL, for use as a filter in the other tools.

### `list_countries` (~21 tokens)

List countries

Countries that have public coverage, with company and content counts.

### `about` (~24 tokens)

About this server

What this database covers, how to cite it, and where the bulk downloads live.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data/buildersinfintech#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-05: 77
- 2026-10-04: 77
- 2026-10-03: 76
- 2026-10-02: 76
- 2026-10-01: 75

## Common questions

### What is the Builders in Fintech MCP server?

Builders in Fintech is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.buildersinfintech/fintech-data. Fintech funding rounds, companies, investors and podcast knowledge. Free, keyless, CC BY 4.0. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp).

### Is the Builders in Fintech MCP server safe to use?

Builders in Fintech scores 77 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Builders in Fintech MCP server expose?

Builders in Fintech exposes 19 tools: search_organizations, get_organization, search_people, get_person, list_funding_rounds, and 14 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,239 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Builders in Fintech MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Builders in Fintech without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Builders in Fintech MCP server still maintained?

Builders in Fintech is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp
- Website: https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data/buildersinfintech.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data/buildersinfintech.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-buildersinfintech-fintech-data/buildersinfintech