Let Your AI Agent Find Your Investors: A 10,469-Firm Database via MCP

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Wire a database of VC, angel, and PE firms into Claude or Cursor and build your fundraising pipeline in plain English.

Raising a round means finding the right 50 investors out of ten thousand. That filtering job is exactly what AI agents are good at, if they have the data. The Startup Investor Database on Apify gives them the data: 10,469 verified VC, angel, private equity, accelerator, and family-office firms, with investment profiles and optional partner contacts, all queryable over MCP or plain REST.

I built it so founders (and the agents they vibe-code) could skip the LinkedIn grind. Here is what is in each record, how to wire it into Claude or Cursor, and three ready-made searches you can run in one click.

What each firm record includes

Every record carries the firm identity and profile (name, type, description, assets under management), location, web presence (website, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, social), investment profile (stages and industry focus like AI, biotech, or fintech), and provenance timestamps showing when it was last verified. Turn on contacts and you also get named partners, principals, and associates with roles, emails, LinkedIn profiles, check-size ranges, areas of interest, and portfolio companies.

Searches filter by firm type, industry, stage, country, and free-text keywords, with pagination and ordering. Pricing is pay per event: $0.01 to start a run, $0.04 per firm returned, and $0.02 per contact, so a targeted 50-firm outreach list with contacts runs a few dollars.

The MCP setup (the fun part)

Add the Actor to any MCP client with Apify’s hosted server URL:

https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=johnvc/startup-investors-data-scraper

Authenticate with your Apify token and investor research becomes a conversation. Ask “European fintech VCs that write seed checks, with partner emails” and your agent queries the database mid-chat, then drafts the outreach emails from the same context. No tab farms, no CSV wrangling unless you want it.

Three searches you can run right now

The Actor ships with three example tasks, each preconfigured to run on your account in one click.

How do I find seed-stage SaaS investors in the US?

The classic first-raise list. Run the seed-stage SaaS investors task and you get US firms focused on early SaaS, ready to filter by check size.

How do I build a list of European fintech VCs with contacts?

Firms plus verified partner contacts, so your outreach sequence starts with a name instead of info@. Run the European fintech VCs task to see the output.

How do I target healthcare angel investors for a Series A?

Stage and sector filtered angels for a healthcare raise. Run the healthcare angels task and hand the results to your agent to rank.

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Calling it from code

Prefer a script? Four lines with the Apify client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("johnvc/startup-investors-data-scraper").call(run_input={"Firm_Types": ["Venture Capital Investor"], "Focus_Areas": ["Financial Services"], "Countries": ["United States"], "Include_Contacts": True, "Max_Results": 50})
firms = list(client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items())

A free Apify account includes enough credit to try all three example tasks, and the REST endpoint drops straight into a CRM import job.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? A continuously refreshed, curated database of 10,469 firms with provenance timestamps on every record, so you can see when each was verified.

Can I get investor emails? Yes, optionally. Enable contacts and matching records include verified partner emails, billed at $0.02 per contact.

How much does a 50-firm list cost? About $2 for the firms ($0.04 each) plus $0.02 per contact if you request them.

Can my AI agent use this without code? Yes. Over MCP, the Actor is a tool your agent calls in plain English; no scripts needed.

If your next raise needs a better list, try the Startup Investor Database on a free account and let your agent do the filtering.