# Wellfound Company Lookup: startup profile API from $3/1k (`accountable_eel/wellfound-company-lookup`) Actor Wellfound (AngelList Talent) company profile lookup by URL or slug: tagline, company size, stage, primary location, website, open job count, and market/industry tags, straight from the company's own Wellfound profile. One row per company. Never charged for a miss. - **URL**: https://apify.com/accountable\_eel/wellfound-company-lookup.md - **Developed by:** [Adrian Voss](https://apify.com/accountable_eel) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Jobs - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $2.28 / 1,000 company profile founds This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. - **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use). - **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`. - **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`. - **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`. - **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Wellfound Company Lookup: startup profile API from $3/1k You give this actor a list of Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) company profile URLs, or bare slugs. For each one, it fetches the company's own Wellfound page and returns its tagline, company size, stage, primary location, website, open job count on Wellfound, and market/industry tags — one flat row per company, read straight off the profile the company itself maintains there. ### Who it's for You're a recruiter or founder checking how a startup positions itself on Wellfound before an outreach message, a VC associate building a quick comparison table of portfolio companies' stage and headcount, or a job-market researcher tracking how many roles a batch of startups currently has open. Any of those means opening a dozen Wellfound tabs by hand today; here it's a list in, a table out. ### Why this one - **Reads the company's own current profile.** Every run fetches the live page — a stage that changed after a new round, or a job count that moved this week, shows up on the next run. - **The stat block startups themselves curate.** Tagline, size, stage, website, open job count, and market tags — the same fields Wellfound shows on the profile itself, not a third-party guess. - **Never charged for a miss.** A slug that doesn't resolve to a real company, or a request that gets blocked, still returns a row explaining why — and costs nothing. - **Bare slug or full URL, your choice.** Paste `stripe` or `https://wellfound.com/company/stripe` — both normalize to the same lookup. ### What you get | Field | Type | Description | |---|---|---| | `query` | text | The URL or slug you submitted, echoed back | | `found` | boolean | `true` if a real company profile was found | | `status` | text | `OK` on a match; `NOT_FOUND` or `BLOCKED` on a miss | | `message` | text | Plain-English reason for a miss — only present when `found` is `false` | | `scrapedAt` | ISO 8601 datetime | When the profile was fetched | | `slug` | text | The company's Wellfound slug | | `name` | text | Company name | | `tagline` | text | The company's own one-line pitch, as shown on its profile | | `size` | text | Employee-count band, e.g. `11-50` or `5000+` | | `stage` | text | Company stage badge Wellfound shows, e.g. `Scale Stage` | | `location` | text | The first office location listed on the profile (see Tips — not a verified single HQ for companies with multiple offices) | | `website` | link | Company's own website | | `jobsOpenCount` | number | Number of open roles currently listed on the company's Wellfound page | | `markets` | array | Market/industry tags the company has on Wellfound, e.g. `["Internet", "SaaS", "Payments"]` | | `wellfoundUrl` | link | The canonical wellfound.com company URL that was fetched | Deselect any field in the Input tab's column picker to drop it from every row — `query`, `found`, `status`, `message`, and `scrapedAt` always stay. ### Price Pay-per-event. A flat per-run fee covers session/proxy warmup; you're billed per item only when data is actually found and returned — see `.actor/pay_per_event.json` for exact prices. A miss is never charged. 1,000 company lookups: **~$3** if every profile resolves, less for any misses, less again on a paid Apify plan. A miss — a bad slug, a profile that no longer exists, a blocked request — is never billed. ### How to use 1. **In the Apify Console.** Open the actor page and click **Start** — the `companies` field is already pre-filled with a working example. Results land in the run's dataset as soon as each item is found. 2. **Via the API.** Call it directly with a POST request — no Console needed once you have an API token: ```bash curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~wellfound-company-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=" \ -X POST \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"companies":["stripe"]}' ``` 3. **On a schedule.** Save this actor as an Apify **Task** with the input you want, then add a **Schedule** (hourly, daily, weekly) so it runs on its own — no server of your own required. 1) Open the Input tab and paste your list of Wellfound company URLs or slugs into "Wellfound company profile URLs or slugs" — one per line. 2) Leave "Try it first" on for your first run — it caps the run at 5 companies so you can check the output shape before spending on the full list. 3) Optionally narrow "Which columns do you want?" to just the fields you need, or set "Only keep rows containing" / "Skip rows containing" to filter by keyword (e.g. a market tag or stage). 4) Turn "Try it first" off and press Start to run the full list. ### Input ```json { "companies": [ "stripe" ] } ``` One company per line — a full wellfound.com company URL, or just the slug from it (the part after /company/). Accepted formats: https://wellfound.com/company/stripe, stripe. ### Sample output | query | found | status | slug | name | tagline | size | stage | location | website | jobsOpenCount | markets | wellfoundUrl | scrapedAt | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | stripe | true | OK | | | | | | | | | \ | | 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z | A slug that doesn't resolve to a real profile gets a row with `found: false` and a `status`/ `message` explaining why, and is never charged. ### Use it from Clay, n8n, Make, or an AI agent This actor runs synchronously over plain HTTP — call it directly from a script, a workflow tool, or an AI agent, no Apify Console needed once you have an API token. ```bash curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~wellfound-company-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=" \ -X POST \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"companies":["stripe"]}' ``` **n8n.** Add an HTTP Request node: Method `POST`, URL `https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~wellfound-company-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=`, Body Content Type `JSON`, JSON Body `{"companies":["stripe"]}` (swap in an expression from an earlier node for a real value). **Clay.** Add an "HTTP API" column: Method `POST`, URL `https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~wellfound-company-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=`, Body `{"companies":["{{company}}"]}`, mapping the row's company into the `companies` array. **MCP.** In Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client with the Apify MCP server, ask for "Wellfound Company Lookup: Startup API from $3/1k" — the agent will find and run this actor. ### Tips - `location` is the first office listed on the company's own Wellfound profile, not a verified headquarters — a company with several offices (a large one can list a dozen or more) may show a secondary office here. For a single-office startup this is reliably the HQ. - Run "Try it first" on a handful of companies you already know the numbers for, to sanity-check the output against what you can see on the profile page yourself. - `jobsOpenCount` reflects roles currently listed on Wellfound specifically — a company that hires entirely off-platform will show `0` even if it's actively hiring elsewhere. - If a company you know is on Wellfound comes back `NOT_FOUND`, double-check the slug against its actual profile URL — Wellfound slugs don't always match a company's common name. ### vs. alternatives | | What it costs | What you get | Trade-off | |---|---|---|---| | **This actor** (`wellfound-company-lookup`) | $0.003 per found row (FREE tier, less on paid tiers), plus a $0.00005 actor start, nothing for a miss | One row per company — tagline, size, stage, primary location, website, open job count, and market tags, read live from the company's own Wellfound profile | Only what the company's own profile shows; `location` is the first-listed office, not a verified single HQ for multi-office companies | | **blackfalcondata/wellfound-scraper** | Not publicly priced per row (n/d) | The closest existing Wellfound scraper on Apify Store, 286 users | Established incumbent — this actor is the same category of extraction, priced per row instead | | Doing it yourself | Your time + working around Wellfound's bot-detection wall on every request | The same data | Rate limits, a bot-check on a bare fetch, and re-testing the Apollo cache shape as Wellfound's frontend changes are the maintenance burden this actor absorbs | Prices for third-party tools are their published list prices as of September 2026 and are not tracked here — check the vendor before relying on the comparison. ### FAQ **Why is a row empty, or why does `found` say `false`?** Either the slug doesn't match a real Wellfound company (`status: NOT_FOUND`) or the request was blocked (`status: BLOCKED`, usually a bot-detection challenge). Check the `message` column for the specific reason. Neither is billed. **Am I charged for a miss?** No. `Actor.charge()` only fires when a real company profile is parsed. A bad slug or a blocked request produces a row (unless you turn on "Hide rows with no result") and costs nothing. **Is this a live check or a stored database?** Live. Every run fetches the company's current Wellfound profile — there's no cached snapshot behind it. A stage, job count, or size band that changed since your last run will show the new value. **Do I need to configure proxies?** No. Wellfound fronts its company pages with a bot-detection check, so this actor ships with the UNBLOCKER proxy group as its default — there's nothing to set up unless you want to override it. **Can an AI agent call this directly?** Yes. It's registered on the Apify MCP server — an agent in Claude, Cursor, or another MCP client can find and run it by name ("Wellfound Company Lookup"), or you can call the REST endpoint shown above from any script or workflow tool. ### Related actors - [LinkedIn Company Lookup](https://apify.com/accountable_eel/linkedin-company-lookup) — firmographic and headcount data straight from a company's LinkedIn page. - [Company Domain Enrichment](https://apify.com/accountable_eel/company-domain-enrichment) — broader firmographic and technical enrichment across multiple sources per domain. - [Clutch Agency Lookup](https://apify.com/accountable_eel/clutch-agency-lookup) — rating, reviews, and service mix for an agency's own Clutch.co profile. # Actor input Schema ## `companies` (type: `array`): One company per line — a full wellfound.com company URL, or just the slug from it (the part after /company/). Accepted formats: https://wellfound.com/company/stripe, stripe. You're only charged for the ones we actually find — a miss costs nothing. ## `testRun` (type: `boolean`): Turn this on to test your input on a small sample before running the full list. Turn it off to process everything. ## `onlyFound` (type: `boolean`): Only keep rows where something was actually found. Misses are always free, whether or not you show them here. ## `includeKeywords` (type: `array`): Optional. Only keep results that mention at least one of these words (e.g. a job title, a city, a product name). Leave empty to keep everything. ## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`): Optional. Drop any result that mentions one of these words. Leave empty to skip nothing. ## `maxResults` (type: `integer`): Optional. Stop the run once this many results have been found — useful for a quick, cheap sample. Leave blank for no limit. ## `columns` (type: `array`): Choose which pieces of information to include in each result row. All are included by default. ## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`): Parallel requests. Keep conservative — this target has no browser fallback, so getting blocked costs more than slow-and-steady. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Apify Proxy config. Residential recommended for anti-bot-sensitive targets. ## Actor input object example ```json { "companies": [ "stripe" ], "testRun": false, "onlyFound": false, "includeKeywords": [], "excludeKeywords": [], "columns": [ "slug", "name", "tagline", "size", "stage", "location", "website", "jobsOpenCount", "markets", "wellfoundUrl" ], "maxConcurrency": 5, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "UNBLOCKER" ] } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "companies": [ "stripe" ], "includeKeywords": [], "excludeKeywords": [] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("accountable_eel/wellfound-company-lookup").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "companies": ["stripe"], "includeKeywords": [], "excludeKeywords": [], } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("accountable_eel/wellfound-company-lookup").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}") for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "companies": [ "stripe" ], "includeKeywords": [], "excludeKeywords": [] }' | apify call accountable_eel/wellfound-company-lookup --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,accountable_eel/wellfound-company-lookup" } } } ``` The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations). ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/zz11PdyCR4ElRTFQz/builds/aLGShuSZ4uxYjzRAG/openapi.json