CB Insights
CB Insights (CB Information Services, Inc.) is a New York-based private-market intelligence platform covering 12M+ private and public company profiles, funding deals, cap tables, M&A and IPO exits, business relationships, management and board data, and proprietary predictive scores (Mosaic, Commercial Maturity, Exit Probability, Competitor Score). The company exposes that data programmatically through the CB Insights API v2 — a token-authenticated REST API at api.cbinsights.com documented with a published Swagger 2.0 contract of 28 operations across Firmographics, Financial Transactions, Business Relationships, Management & Board, Outlook, Revenue, Strategy Map, Scouting Reports and the ChatCBI research LLM — plus a maintenance-mode v1 REST API, a hosted OAuth-protected MCP server at mcp.cbinsights.com listed in Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot connector directories, a Snowflake Marketplace data share with Semantic Views and a Cortex Knowledge Extension, and Salesforce and Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors. Access is credit-metered and credential-gated: clientId/clientSecret are issued by CB Insights, exchanged for a 24-hour bearer token, and every data call debits an account credit ledger.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles CB Insights the way a machine reads it — 33 machine-readable artifacts across 13 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — CB Insights scores 55.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 51/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile CB Insights
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CB Insights. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 13
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
CB Insights API v1
The original CB Insights REST API — 11 documented GET operations over organizations, deals (fundings, investments, portfolio exits), people, business relationships, expert colle...
CB Insights MCP Server
Hosted, remote Model Context Protocol server at mcp.cbinsights.com, offered as the supported replacement for the deprecated self-hosted cbi-mcp-server reference implementation. ...
CB Insights Authorization API
The Authorization API from CB Insights — 1 operation(s) for authorization.
CB Insights Business Relationships API
This dataset contains information about partnerships, clients/vendors, licensing activity, and CBI-generated insights to predict future M&As and shifts in strategy.
CB Insights Chat CBI API
The ChatCBI API from CB Insights — 3 operation(s) for chatcbi.
CB Insights Financial Transactions API
This dataset contains information about funding deals, cap table history, M&As, IPOs, and CBI-generated insights that extract key themes.
CB Insights Firmographics API
This dataset contains profiles on private companies, public companies, and investors. Includes general information like location, headcount, and industry, as well as proprietary...
CB Insights Management And Board API
This dataset includes leadership teams, board members, and the Management factor of the Mosaic Score — our proprietary algorithm which evaluates leadership teams based on past a...
CB Insights Organizations API
The Organizations API from CB Insights — 1 operation(s) for organizations.
CB Insights Outlook API
This dataset contains proprietary data science analysis including Mosaic Score, Commercial Maturity, and Exit Probability. Proven to predict winners better than top VCs. More ab...
CB Insights Revenue API
The Revenue API from CB Insights — 2 operation(s) for revenue.
CB Insights Scouting Reports API
A CB Insights scouting report for a private company provides a comprehensive analysis of a business, including its market position, competitive landscape, and growth potential t...
CB Insights Strategy Map API
The StrategyMap API from CB Insights — 1 operation(s) for strategymap.
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Open Collections 12
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Authorization API
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Business Relationships API
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Chat CBI API
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Financial Transactions API
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Firmographics API
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Management And Board API
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Organizations API
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Outlook API
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Revenue API
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Scouting Reports API
OPEN COLLECTIONCB Insights Strategy Map API
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MCP Servers 2
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
cb-insights-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERmcp.cbinsights.com
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cb Insights Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Resources
Every other property we hold for CB Insights — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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This is an independent, third-party profile of CB Insights, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.
The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.
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