# How to use Claude to look up a startup's funding rounds with looot

List a company's funding rounds with amounts, dates, investors and the articles they came from.

## Connect looot to Claude

1. In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors.
2. Click "+ Add", then "Add custom connector".
3. Name it looot and paste the remote MCP server URL https://api.looot.ai/mcp. Click Continue.
4. Review the authentication settings Claude detects and click Continue. Under Authentication pick "Sign in now" or "Sign in when needed". Under OAuth client, Anthropic recommends "Use Claude's published identity". Click Add.
5. looot's sign-in page opens: sign in with your looot account and allow access. Runs are paid from your prepaid looot balance.

Anthropic's help center says custom connectors work on Free, Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise, and a Free account can add one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise an Owner or Primary Owner adds it under Organization settings, Connectors, and each member then clicks Connect under Customize, Connectors.

In Claude Code instead: Add looot from your terminal with one command: `claude mcp add --transport http looot https://api.looot.ai/mcp`. Then type /mcp inside Claude Code and follow the browser sign-in.

- Source, read 2026-11-10: [Anthropic help center: Get started with custom connectors using remote MCP](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11175166-getting-started-with-custom-connectors-using-remote-mcp)
- Source, read 2026-11-10: [Claude Code docs: Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp)

## Ask Claude

In a new chat, click the "+" button at the lower left, choose Connectors and switch looot on for this conversation. Then paste the prompt.

Use looot to list the funding rounds of [company domain] with the job company.funding, fallback on. Return a table with date, round type, amount and investors, newest first. Merge rows that describe the same round from different sources, and link one source per round.

## Jobs it calls and what they cost

One use costs from $0.01 at today's cheapest providers. A provider that misses can fall back to the next one, which can cost more; looot charges only the calls that ran, from your prepaid balance.

- `company.funding`: 1 call, from $0.01 per call (PredictLeads, the cheapest of 3 providers). Compare providers: [company.funding benchmark](/benchmarks/company-funding). [About the cheapest provider](/providers/predictleads)

## A real run

We ran this task through the looot MCP on 2026-11-10. Asked: mistral.ai. Total charged: $0.01.

- company.funding on predictleads-companies-financing-events (PredictLeads): answered, charged $0.01. Run id run_0762240bdea149f58a0dccbeddfa2d4d.
- 6 financing events for Mistral, each with source links.
- Seed: €105 million, June 2023 (Headline). Series A: $415 million, December 2023 (a16z, Lightspeed Venture Partners).
- Investment: €15 million from Microsoft, March 2024. Debt: $830 million, March 2026, for a data center in Paris.
- Series D: $3.5 billion, September 2026, with Index Ventures among 3 linked investors. The same round appears a second time as EUR 3bn Series D Plus from another source.

## Good to know

- Funding data is collected from news articles, so one round can appear twice under two names. Merge before you add up totals.

## More

- [The same task in ChatGPT](/guides/chatgpt/startup-funding-rounds)
- [All Claude guides](/guides/claude)