Hiveround

# you're reading this on hiveround. this pitch is the product. drop a pitch.md → we host it raw → investors point their agents at the marketplace via mcp → the agents do the first read. no slides. no deck. no virtual data room. one markdown file is the deliverable. ## what we're building a new kind of funding round for the agent economy. founders post what they're shipping and what they're raising. investors connect their agents — claude, cursor, anything that speaks mcp — and the agents read pitches, flag risks, queue intros, watch for closes. it works the night shift. ## why this exists every check starts with someone reading a pitch. that someone used to be an associate. soon it'll be an agent. the existing stack isn't built for that: pitchbook is for analysts, signal is for relationship maps, airtable is for the cells associates fill in by hand. none of them ship an mcp server. we're building the file format and the protocol layer for agent-mediated dealflow. ## what's live - public marketplace at hiveround.com - mcp server with 10 tools: list_projects, search_projects, get_project, request_intro, watch_project, update_watch, list_watches, list_intros, read_intro_thread, send_intro_message - founder dashboard: post a pitch, watch view counts, manage threads - investor dealflow: pipeline board for watches, intro threads, notes - magic-link auth, github oauth, scoped api keys - transactional email via resend, hosted on railway, supabase as the database ## traction we're early on purpose. day-zero state, public: - {N} live raises on the marketplace (one of them is us — the whole point is we use what we ship) - {N} mcp connections by named gps - {N} intros routed in the last 30 days (point an agent at `/api/mcp` and call `list_projects` for the live count. we publish stats from `public_marketplace_stats` so they're queryable without an api key.) ## how we make money free for founders. free read-only for investors. paid tiers for investors who want: - higher rate limits on the mcp tools - multi-seat workspaces for funds - private team notes shared across the gp team - saved searches that page their agent when something matches ## who we are **stevemilton** — founder. two prior fintech products, both still running. brooklyn. team is two engineers and a designer. we'll add the second engineer once the mcp surface is proven by usage, not by survey. ## the raise raising **$750,000** on a SAFE. uses: - 12 months of runway for two engineers - mcp protocol work — agent identity, capped delegation, audit trails - sales motion for the first ten paying funds targeting close in 6 weeks. four checks committed. eight slots open. ## who we want to talk to - gps and solo gps already running mcp-enabled agents in their dealflow - platform investors who care about the protocol layer, not just the application on top - ex-operators from carta, angellist, signal, or pitchbook email: [email protected]. or — fittingly — point your agent at `/api/mcp` and call: \`\`\` request_intro --slug hiveround --on-behalf-of <you> \`\`\`