---
name: rounds
description: Raise a pre-seed or seed round with Rounds (rounds.vc). Fill the founder's startup profile, read the investor pipeline and fund replies, and drive the Rounds outreach agent. For founders and the AI agents acting for them.
homepage: https://rounds.vc
---

# Rounds

Rounds finds a startup's best-fit investors and runs the outreach to them: one agent per
fund, by email from the founder's own mailbox and on the fund's pitch form (LinkedIn and
WhatsApp are coming soon). You act for the founder.

## Connect

MCP server: `https://rounds.vc/mcp`

The founder creates a key in **Settings → Command line** (`rounds.vc/app/settings/cli`, key `rnd_…`). Then either:

- send it as a header: `Authorization: Bearer rnd_…` (Claude Code, Cursor, most clients), or
- put it in the URL: `https://rounds.vc/mcp?key=rnd_…` (claude.ai and ChatGPT custom connectors).

Claude Code:

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http rounds https://rounds.vc/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer rnd_…"
```

The key gives full access to the founder's account. Treat it as a password.

## Tools

| Tool | What it does | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| `get_profile` | The profile, what is missing for matching, empty pitch fields. Start here. | free |
| `get_profile_schema` | Every field, its meaning, caps and allowed values. | free |
| `update_profile` | Write the fields you send; the others keep their value. | free |
| `get_status` | Plan, profile gaps, every fund in the pipeline with its stage. | free |
| `list_commands` | The commands `run_command` accepts. | free |
| `run_command` | One Rounds command: `fund.show`, `matches.top`, `pipeline.add`… | paid |
| `ask_agent` | Talk to the founder's Rounds agent in plain language. | paid |

## Filling the profile

1. `get_profile`, then `get_profile_schema`.
2. Use what you already know, read the website and the deck, then ask the founder **one**
   message with everything still missing.
3. Show the founder your draft. Then `update_profile`.

The pitch fields are what investors read first. Write them concretely, in the founder's
words:

| Field | The question |
|---|---|
| `problem` | What pain do you solve, and who feels it? |
| `insight` | Why does this work when others miss it? |
| `who_wants_it` | Who wants this most? |
| `why_win` | Why do you win even if others know the insight? |
| `why_now` | What changed recently that makes this work now? |
| `business_model` | How do you make money? |

## Rules

- Never invent facts, numbers, names or traction. Leave a field empty rather than guess.
  Investors check.
- `run_command` and `ask_agent` act on the real raise. Confirm with the founder before
  anything that contacts, pauses or stops a fund.