Y Combinator Company Profile Scraper

Extracts structured company profile data — name, description, founders, team size, location, batch, status, industries, and open roles — from individual Y Combinator company pages. Built for investors, recruiters, and researchers who need clean, structured data on YC-backed companies without manually copying fields off each company page.

Why this scraper

• Parses the company data straight out of the page's embedded JSON payload instead of scraping visible DOM elements with CSS selectors, so results don't break when YC changes its page layout or styling.
• Covers founders, batch code, team size, and current hiring counts alongside the standard profile fields — data that requires piecing together multiple page sections.
• Priced per successfully parsed company, so you only pay for records that actually came back complete.

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
company_name	string	Official company name
company_url	string	Canonical YC company page URL
one_liner	string	Short tagline describing the company
long_description	string	Full description text from the meta description / about section
founded_year	integer	Year the company was founded
founders	string	Comma-separated list of founder names
team_size	integer	Current employee count as listed on the page
location	string	City/region where the company is based
batch	string	YC batch code, e.g. S09, W21
status	string	Company status, e.g. Active, Acquired, Public
industries	string	Comma-separated industry/tag labels
website_url	string	Company's external website URL
hiring_roles_count	integer	Number of open roles currently listed as hiring
logo_url	string	URL of the company logo image

Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
}

startUrls is a list of YC company page URLs to scrape. maxItems caps how many URLs are processed in a run.

Output

{
  "company_name": "Stripe",
  "company_url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe",
  "one_liner": "Economic infrastructure for the internet.",
  "long_description": "Economic infrastructure for the internet. Founded in 2009 by John Collison and Patrick Collison, Stripe has 7000 employees based in San Francisco. Stripe is hiring for 3 roles in engineering.",
  "founded_year": 2009,
  "founders": "Patrick Collison, John Collison",
  "team_size": 7000,
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "batch": "S09",
  "status": "Active",
  "industries": "Banking as a Service, Fintech, SaaS",
  "website_url": "http://stripe.com",
  "hiring_roles_count": 3,
  "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e5ccedd9995f6524b4a0379062eb67f7c991613e.png"
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result at $0.001 per company scraped — you're charged only for company URLs successfully parsed into a full profile. A run covering 500 companies costs $0.50.

Use cases

• Building a sourcing list of YC-backed companies by batch for an investor pipeline or scouting report.
• Tracking hiring activity across a set of YC companies to identify recruiting targets for a talent agency.
• Enriching a CRM or research database with founder names, locations, and industry tags for market mapping.