News scraping usually fails in one of two ways: the same round appears five times, or a single blog post is presented with the same weight as a Reuters story. Collapsing duplicates into one event with a corroboration count fixes both at once — you see how widely a claim was reported, which is the closest thing to a confidence signal a press scan can offer. Narrowing the event types is worth doing for its own sake: it narrows the search, not just the answer.
A one-tool MCP server that scans public news and PR wires for a company's business events. It classifies each story into a typed event, deduplicates the same event reported by several outlets, and returns one flat row per company — the account-signal work you would otherwise pay a database subscription for.
- A company's recent business events from Google News and PR wires, typed and dated — `get_funding_press_signals`
- Six event types you can narrow to, which narrows the search as well as the answer: `funding_round`, `ipo`, `acquisition`, `exec_move`, `product_launch`, `partnership`
- A per-company summary that answers the common question directly: `has_recent_funding`, `funding_total_estimated`, `latest_event_date`, `most_recent_event_type`, `most_recent_headline`
- An events array where each entry carries its type, date, headline, source URL and source name, amount, currency, funding stage, the names involved, a description, and a corroborating source count
- Deduplication across outlets, so one funding round reported five times is one event with five corroborations rather than five events
- A lookback window in days, defaulting to 365, and a company name hint for domains that do not match the brand
An Apify account with an API token, passed as `APIFY_TOKEN` — the scan runs as an Apify actor and this package is a thin client routing the call, so cost follows Apify's model. Node.js 18 or newer. Launch with `npx -y @mambalabsdev/mcp-funding-press-signal-scanner`; the package is `@mambalabsdev/mcp-funding-press-signal-scanner` (1.1.0) over stdio.
One command plus a key — npx -y @mambalabsdev/mcp-funding-press-signal-scanner, then supply credentials