# Builders in Fintech — global fintech news and funding database by Michele Mattei

> Builders in Fintech (buildersinfintech.ai) is a global fintech news publication and open database run by Michele Mattei in Italy. It is not affiliated with the African fintech community at buildersinfintech.com.

The latest news from the fintech ecosystem

Database: 7,111 companies · 7,466 investors · 9,854 funding rounds · 1,589 products · 698 people.

## Sections

- [News](https://buildersinfintech.ai/news): Daily fintech news, newest first.
- [Daily digest](https://buildersinfintech.ai/daily): Each weekday's rounds and news in one edition; RSS at /daily/feed.xml.
- [Newsletter](https://buildersinfintech.ai/newsletter): Every weekly issue.
- [Podcast](https://buildersinfintech.ai/podcast): Every episode, with show notes.
- [Companies](https://buildersinfintech.ai/companies): Fintech company profiles.
- [Investors](https://buildersinfintech.ai/investors): Investor profiles and portfolios.
- [People](https://buildersinfintech.ai/people): Founders, operators and investors.
- [Topics](https://buildersinfintech.ai/topics): Coverage grouped by theme.
- [Countries](https://buildersinfintech.ai/countries): Coverage grouped by country.
- [Funding](https://buildersinfintech.ai/funding): Funding rounds, filterable.
- [Events](https://buildersinfintech.ai/events): Upcoming fintech events, grouped by month.
- [Products](https://buildersinfintech.ai/products): Fintech products described by the companies that build them and reviewed by us. Company-provided, not part of the CC BY dataset.

## About

- [About](https://buildersinfintech.ai/about): Who publishes this site.
- [Submit](https://buildersinfintech.ai/submit): Share fintech news (public or under embargo), list a fintech product, or tell us about a round.
- [Methodology and corrections](https://buildersinfintech.ai/methodology): How the news is sourced, how the database is reviewed, how corrections are handled.
- [Founding Partners](https://buildersinfintech.ai/partners): Pilot partnerships at no cost; editorial independence applies.
- [Pitch us](https://buildersinfintech.ai/pitch): How founders can pitch us and what happens next.
- [Embargo Desk](https://buildersinfintech.ai/embargo): How companies and PR agencies send announcements under embargo.

## Data

- [Open dataset](https://buildersinfintech.ai/data): Funding rounds, companies and investors as CSV and JSON, CC BY 4.0.
- [Cite this dataset](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23065299): Zenodo concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23065299. The concept DOI always resolves to the latest release.
- [Dataset mirror: GitHub](https://github.com/matteimichele27-arch/builders-in-fintech-data)
- [Dataset mirror: Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/buildersinfintech/builders-in-fintech)
- [Dataset mirror: Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.23065299)
- [Funding rounds CSV](https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/funding-rounds.csv)
- [Funding rounds JSON](https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/funding-rounds.json)
- [Companies CSV](https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/companies.csv)
- [Investors CSV](https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/investors.csv)
- [MCP connector](https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp): Query this database live from an AI assistant (read-only, no account). Setup, tool list, limits and example prompts: https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp
- [Podcast facts](https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/podcast-facts.csv): Attributed facts from podcast episodes (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the guest, not independently verified. Also searchable via the MCP tool search_podcast_knowledge.
- [Daily digest](https://buildersinfintech.ai/daily): Each weekday's equity rounds and news. Also via the MCP tool get_daily_digest (optional date, YYYY-MM-DD).
- Licensed providers: the MCP tool find_providers filters companies by product category, licence (licensed_in = ISO2 home or passported country), licence type, authority and agent access (has_sandbox, has_mcp, has_api); list_provider_filters gives the valid values. Licences come from public registers and carry source_url and last_checked_at; certifications are self-reported by the company. Not part of the CC BY dataset.
- [Largest rounds](https://buildersinfintech.ai/funding/largest-rounds): Largest disclosed rounds, ranked per currency.
- [Most active investors](https://buildersinfintech.ai/funding/most-active-investors): Investors ranked by rounds.
- [Funding Index](https://buildersinfintech.ai/funding/index): Weekly index of fintech equity rounds vs the prior 12 weeks, with history ([CSV](https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/funding-index.csv)).
- [Investor scorecards](https://buildersinfintech.ai/funding/investor-scorecards): Share of each investor's portfolio companies that raised a follow-on round within the measured window (currently reported as a 24-month rate on recorded rounds) ([CSV](https://buildersinfintech.ai/data/investor-scorecards.csv)).
- [This year's rounds](https://buildersinfintech.ai/funding/2026): Rounds announced this year, by month.

## For AI assistants and agents

- [MCP connector](https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp): POST JSON-RPC 2.0 over Streamable HTTP. No authentication. 500 calls per connection per day, 60 per minute, 200 rows per call.
  - Connect from Claude.ai: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, name it "Builders in Fintech", paste https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp.
  - Connect from Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http builders-in-fintech 'https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp'
  - Connect from Cursor: cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=builders-in-fintech&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2J1aWxkZXJzaW5maW50ZWNoLmFpL21jcCJ9
  - Connect from VS Code: vscode:mcp/install?%7B%22name%22%3A%22builders-in-fintech%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22http%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fbuildersinfintech.ai%2Fmcp%22%7D
  - Connect from ChatGPT: Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode on, Create, paste https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp, Authentication "No authentication".
  - Connect from Any other client: Streamable HTTP, URL https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp, no authentication.
- [Agent-Ready Standard](https://buildersinfintech.ai/agent-ready): Five public checks per product, scored 0–5. Filter providers with min_agent_ready (1–5) in the MCP tool find_providers.
- [For agents](https://buildersinfintech.ai/for-agents): Transport, connection identity, limits, error handling, citation rules and bulk access.
- [AI information](https://buildersinfintech.ai/ai-information): How to describe and cite this publication accurately.
- [Discovery descriptor](https://buildersinfintech.ai/.well-known/mcp.json): Machine-readable endpoint and tool list.

## Feeds

- [RSS feed](https://buildersinfintech.ai/feed.xml): The 50 most recent items.
- [Sitemap](https://buildersinfintech.ai/sitemap.xml): Every public page.

## Using this content

Content may be quoted with attribution to Builders in Fintech and a link back to the page quoted.