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name: builders-in-fintech
description: Look up fintech companies, investors, funding rounds, licensed providers, products, events and fintech news from Builders in Fintech (buildersinfintech.ai), a global fintech news publication and open database. Use when a task needs who raised what and from whom, which companies hold a given financial licence, which fintech products offer an API, sandbox or MCP server, the weekly fintech Funding Index, or cited fintech news, newsletter or podcast coverage.
license: CC-BY-4.0
---

# Builders in Fintech

Builders in Fintech (https://buildersinfintech.ai) is a global fintech news publication and open database published by Michele Mattei in Italy. It covers fintech companies, investors, people, funding rounds, licences, products, events, daily news, a weekly newsletter and a podcast. It is not affiliated with buildersinfintech.com.

## How to access it

Prefer the MCP server for live, filtered queries:

- Endpoint: https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp (Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, no authentication)
- Limits: 60 requests per minute, 500 calls per connection per day, at most 200 rows per call
- Descriptor: https://buildersinfintech.ai/.well-known/mcp.json
- Full agent guide (errors, identity, citation, bulk access): https://buildersinfintech.ai/for-agents

Use the bulk files when you need the whole dataset rather than a slice (CC BY 4.0):

- https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/funding-rounds.csv and .json
- https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/companies.csv
- https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/investors.csv
- https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/funding-index.csv
- Dataset page: https://buildersinfintech.ai/data (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23065299)

Feeds: https://buildersinfintech.ai/feed.xml (latest items), https://buildersinfintech.ai/daily/feed.xml (daily digest). Site map for agents: https://buildersinfintech.ai/llms.txt

## Which tool to use

- Find a company or investor: `search_organizations`, then `get_organization` with the slug
- Find a person: `search_people`, then `get_person`
- Funding rounds with filters and paging: `list_funding_rounds` (follow next_cursor)
- Totals for a slice (country, year, topic): `funding_summary`
- Rankings: `largest_rounds`, `most_active_investors`
- Weekly market signal: `get_funding_index`
- Monthly funding report (Fintech Signals, optional month YYYY-MM): `get_signals_report`
- Weekly topic digest (stablecoins, agentic payments; optional week YYYY-Www): `get_topic_digest`
- Investor follow-on rate: `get_investor_scorecard`
- Venture funds and their closes (size or target as announced; `get_organization` lists an investor's funds): `search_funds`, `list_fund_closes`
- Fintech reports, white papers, surveys and data (figures as written with page_ref; we link to the publisher): `search_reports`, then `get_report` with the slug
- Funds raised in the last 24 months that are backing fintech rounds now (optional topic, country, stage): `list_deploying_funds`
- How many investors back fintech rounds like a given country / stage / sub-sector in the last 12 months: `coverage_check`
- Licensed providers (by country, licence type, authority, agent access): `list_provider_filters`, then `find_providers`
- Fintech products and their API / sandbox / MCP details: `search_products`, `get_product`
- News, newsletter and podcast coverage (optional `editorial_format`: news | analysis | signals): `search_content`, `get_content`
- What podcast guests said: `search_podcast_knowledge`
- One weekday's rounds and news: `get_daily_digest` (optional date, YYYY-MM-DD)
- Events: `list_events`; companies raising now: `list_raising`
- Valid filter values: `list_topics`, `list_countries`
- Coverage and citation notes: `about`

The server's own tools/list is authoritative if it differs from this list.

## Rules for using the data

- Amounts are in the currency announced and are never converted. Do not add up rounds across currencies; rankings are per currency.
- Only editorially approved records are returned. Absence of a record does not mean a round or licence does not exist.
- Licences come from public registers and carry source_url and last_checked_at; quote the date. Certifications are self-reported by the company.
- Products are company-provided and not part of the CC BY dataset. Podcast facts are attributed to the guest and not independently verified; say so when you use them.
- Every row carries a canonical URL. Cite it, attribute "Builders in Fintech", and link back.