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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Hunter.\n\nFrançois Grante co-founded Hunter with Antoine Finkelstein in 2015, shortly after they graduated. The tool began as Email Hunter, which found email addresses published on the public web, and grew into an email outreach platform for finding contacts and sending cold emails.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fgrante\n- X: https://x.com/fgrante\n\n## What François builds\n\n- [Hunter API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hunter.md), graded C, 56.6/100, in Lead \u0026 company data. Email finder, email verifier, domain search, company discovery and person and company enrichment over a REST API, plus a hosted MCP server that also drives Hunter's leads, lists and cold-email sequences. Co-founder, Hunter, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Antoine Finkelstein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/antoine-finkelstein/), Co-founder, Hunter\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is François Grante?\n\nFrançois Grante co-founded Hunter with Antoine Finkelstein in 2015, shortly after they graduated. The tool began as Email Hunter, which found email addresses published on the public web, and grew into an email outreach platform for finding contacts and sending cold emails.\n\n### What does Hunter make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Hunter API + MCP from Hunter. Email finder, email verifier, domain search, company discovery and person and company enrichment over a REST API, plus a hosted MCP server that also drives Hunter's leads, lists and cold-email sequences.\n\n### How are François's tools graded?\n\nHunter API + MCP is graded C, 56.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://hunter.io/about\n- https://hunter.io/\n- https://hunter.io/contact\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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