# François Grante

> François Grante is co-founder of Hunter. Hunter API + MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-27

Co-founder, Hunter.

François 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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fgrante
- X: https://x.com/fgrante

## What François builds

- [Hunter API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hunter.md), graded C, 56.6/100, in Lead & 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.

## Works with

- [Antoine Finkelstein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/antoine-finkelstein/), Co-founder, Hunter

## Questions

### Who is François Grante?

François 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.

### What does Hunter make?

Anchor 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.

### How are François's tools graded?

Hunter API + MCP is graded C, 56.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://hunter.io/about
- https://hunter.io/
- https://hunter.io/contact

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