Who it is for
Corporate development, venture, and partnership teams whose work begins with a list of private companies.
CB Insights
Private company research and market mapping
Overview
What CB Insights does
CB Insights turns private markets research into tasks that run from a chat: sourcing companies, assembling market maps, drafting investment memos, and monitoring competitors.
The data set behind it is described as more than eleven million double-validated company profiles, together with recent equity deal coverage, proprietary taxonomies, scoring, hidden signals, and two decades of technology research. Predictive intelligence sits on top of that, aimed at surfacing companies earlier than a manual scan would.
The stated audience is corporate strategy groups looking for acquisition targets, venture investors filtering deal flow, and business development teams searching for partners.
What stands out
The output is shaped around deliverables such as market maps and investment memos rather than single company lookups.
Availability
Where CB Insights is listed
CB Insights ships this on both marketplaces: CB Insights is listed in the Claude connectors directory and in the ChatGPT apps directory, under the same publisher domain.
Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- CB Insights
- Filed under
- Finance
- Listed since
- May 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- cbinsights.com
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Example prompts from the listing
- Which companies in the industrial robotics space are most likely to IPO?
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
CB Insights publishes 15 tools to Claude. That is a mid-sized surface: 59.4% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Finance publishes 12, so this one runs 3 tools above its bucket's median and ranks 63rd of 159 by tool count.
It falls in the 11-20 tools band, which holds 22.5% of the Claude directory.
CB Insights publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- CB Insights
- Verification
- Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Financial Services
- Endpoint
-
https://mcp.cbinsights.com - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 15 · 11-20 tools band
- Depth rank in Finance
- 63 of 159
- Snapshot
- August 2026
CB Insights carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.
In the publisher's words
How CB Insights describes it
Unleash Claude as your private markets research agent. Source companies, build market maps, draft investment memos, and monitor competitors — all powered by CB Insights' predictive intelligence. Tap into 11M+ double-validated company profiles, leading coverage of recent equity deals, proprietary taxonomies, unique scores, hidden signals, and over 20 years of bleeding-edge technology research to identify and analyze relevant, high-potential companies ahead of your competition. Built for corporate strategists seeking acquisition targets, VCs screening deal flow, and business development teams hunting new partners. If your work involves private companies, CB Insights delivers the insight you need to make your next move first.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from CB Insights's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with CB Insights, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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