README.md

metadata

title: VC Deal Flow Scout — DeepSeek Edition
emoji: 📈
colorFrom: indigo
colorTo: purple
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.40.0
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: mit
short_description: Find startups accelerating on GitHub before they raise
tags:
  - venture-capital
  - github
  - alternative-data
  - deepseek
  - mcp
  - agent

VC Deal Flow Scout — DeepSeek Edition

A demo of DeepSeek-V3 plugged into the public GitDealFlow MCP server. Ask any question about startup engineering acceleration on GitHub — the agent calls live tools and returns cited answers.

Why DeepSeek? Open-weight + open-MCP = a fully open-source VC research stack. No proprietary inference, no closed data, no tracking. The same agent loop runs locally with deepseek-v3 self-hosted.

What you can ask

• "What AI/ML startups are accelerating fastest this month?"
• "Compare engineering momentum at three competing infra companies"
• "Find dark horses in fintech with breakout signals but low public visibility"
• "Show me security startups whose contributor count grew 2x in 90 days"
• "Explain the GitDealFlow methodology"

Tools available to the agent

Tool	What it does
get_trending_startups	Top 20 startups across all sectors by commit-velocity acceleration
search_startups_by_sector	Drill into one of 20 sectors
get_startup_signal	Full profile by startup name
get_signals_summary	Dataset snapshot + citation
get_scout_receipts	Scout Score 0-100 for any GitHub username
get_methodology	Full methodology document

All tools are read-only, idempotent, and public (no auth required for read access). The MCP server is also reachable directly at https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/mcp/rpc.

How this Space works

1. DeepSeek-V3 runs on Hugging Face Inference Providers (Together AI / Fireworks fallback)
2. GitDealFlow MCP server is reached over HTTPS at signals.gitdealflow.com/api/mcp/rpc
3. Gradio UI wraps the chat loop and renders the agent's tool calls

The agent loop is ~80 lines of Python. See app.py.

Citation

GitDealFlow data citation:

VC Deal Flow Signal (signals.gitdealflow.com), Q2 2026 data.

Methodology paper: SSRN preprint id 6606558.

Local run

git clone https://huggingface.co/spaces/the-data-nerd/vc-deal-flow-deepseek
cd vc-deal-flow-deepseek
pip install -r requirements.txt
HF_TOKEN=hf_xxx python app.py

Related

• Companion data explorer (Space): the-data-nerd/vc-deal-flow-explorer — interactive Gradio dashboard (heatmap + filterable rankings + per-startup drilldown) on top of the same dataset
• Underlying dataset: the-data-nerd/vc-deal-flow-signal (CC-BY-4.0)
• Public website: https://gitdealflow.com
• npm MCP server: @gitdealflow/mcp-signal
• GitHub repo: https://github.com/kindrat86/mcp-deal-flow-signal
• Anthropic Desktop Extensions Directory: submitted 2026-05-02
• Cline MCP Marketplace: #1491
• CrewAI Tools: PR #5682
• Glama.ai: A-tier, 4.9 TDQS

License

MIT — see LICENSE.