{"id":194913,"date":"2026-03-11T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/manufact-raises-6-3m-as-mcp-becomes-the-usb-c-for-ai-powering-chatgpt-and-claude-apps\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:45:42","slug":"manufact-raises-6-3m-as-mcp-becomes-the-usb-c-for-ai-powering-chatgpt-and-claude-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/manufact-raises-6-3m-as-mcp-becomes-the-usb-c-for-ai-powering-chatgpt-and-claude-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufact raises $6.3M as MCP becomes the \u2018USB-C for AI\u2019 powering ChatGPT and Claude apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/infrastructure\/manufact-raises-usd6-3m-as-mcp-becomes-the-usb-c-for-ai-powering-chatgpt-and\">Manufact raises $6.3M as MCP becomes the \u2018USB-C for AI\u2019 powering ChatGPT and Claude apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/infrastructure\/manufact-raises-usd6-3m-as-mcp-becomes-the-usb-c-for-ai-powering-chatgpt-and\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/infrastructure\/manufact-raises-usd6-3m-as-mcp-becomes-the-usb-c-for-ai-powering-chatgpt-and<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-11 12:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"venturebeat.com\">venturebeat.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Startup Manufact is focused on creating software for AI agents rather than individual human users.<\/li>\n<li>The company raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by Peak XV, with other investors also participating.  <\/li>\n<li>Manufact aims to build tools and cloud infrastructure that allow AI agents to interact easily with software through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).<\/li>\n<li>The MCP protocol, developed by Anthropic, has become a universal standard for connecting AI agents to software. Over 10,000 MCP servers now operate globally.  <\/li>\n<li>Manufact offers an open-source SDK, a testing suite, and a cloud platform to simplify the infrastructure needed for AI agents.<\/li>\n<li>While Manufact currently has no paying customers, the founders aim to reach $2-3 million in annual recurring revenue by 2026.  <\/li>\n<li>Without infrastructure to support AI agents, software companies risk becoming &#8220;systems of record&#8221;, losing interactions to AI agents.<\/li>\n<li>Manufact&#8217;s success will be measured by the percentage of global AI tool calls that go through its infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufact raises $6.3M as MCP becomes the \u2018USB-C for AI\u2019 powering ChatGPT and Claude apps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.ctfassets.net\/jdtwqhzvc2n1\/Sj1afsjJ2MMCfjvWXP6CN\/0c19848fe41b4e3d1ca6d9ddcd94c5ae\/nuneybits_Vector_art_of_USB-C_plug_transforming_into_cascading__62298a94-828e-4385-ac47-508e83927c72.webp?w=800&q=75","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194915,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194913\/revisions\/194915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}