Which YC Companies Are Hiring

Get the full list of Y Combinator companies that are hiring right now, as structured data, in one run.

Right now that is 1,477 of YC's 6,202 companies — about 24% of the portfolio. The list changes every day as companies open and close roles, and this Actor gives you the current version of it whenever you ask.

No login, no cookies, no browsing 6,000 company pages. A full run takes a few seconds.

What this Actor does

The YC company directory hides a useful signal: which startups are actively hiring. That signal is scattered across thousands of individual company pages and mixed in with companies that are dormant, acquired, or fully staffed.

This Actor returns just the hiring ones, filtered the way you want them, as a clean list you can send to a spreadsheet, a CRM, a database, or your own app.

Ask it things like:

• Every Fintech company from the last four batches that is hiring
• Remote-friendly startups with fewer than 10 people that are hiring
• Companies in London or Bangalore that are hiring
• Every YC "top company" that is hiring

Who it's for

Job seekers and recruiters. Skip the companies that are not hiring. Every row includes a direct link to that company's live YC job listings, so you can go from list to application in one click. 760 of the companies currently hiring are remote-friendly.

Sales and BD teams. Hiring is the cheapest public signal that a startup has money and is growing. Filter to your ICP — B2B, Fintech, 10+ people, US-based — and you have a prospect list of companies that just raised or are scaling, complete with website, location, team size, and description for personalization.

VCs and analysts. Track hiring as a growth proxy across batches, industries, and regions. Run it on a schedule and diff the results to see who started hiring this week.

Builders. Power a job board, a newsletter, a Slack alert, or an AI agent with a reliable, structured feed of hiring startups.

What you get

One row per company:

Field	Example
name	Tesora
oneLiner	Frontier AI for Actuaries
description	Full YC company description
website	https://tesora.ai
jobsUrl	https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tesora/jobs
ycUrl	https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tesora
logoUrl	Company logo
batch	Summer 2025
industry / subindustry	Fintech / Fintech -> Insurance
industries / tags	["Fintech", "Insurance"] / ["API", "Insurance", "AI"]
teamSize	5
stage	Early or Growth
status	Active or Public
allLocations	San Francisco, CA, USA
regions	["United States of America", "America / Canada"]
isRemoteFriendly	true when YC lists the company as remote or partly remote
topCompany	true for YC's top companies
nonprofit	false
launchedAt	2025-08-19
ycCompanyId	30663
slug	tesora
checkedAt	Timestamp of this run

Sample output

{
  "name": "Tesora",
  "slug": "tesora",
  "oneLiner": "Frontier AI for Actuaries",
  "description": "Tesora builds frontier AI agents for actuaries at P&C carriers, reinsurers, and MGAs...",
  "website": "https://tesora.ai",
  "ycUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tesora",
  "jobsUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tesora/jobs",
  "logoUrl": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2793bc4802e1c1cddfc383aed3ac255ec33a0465.png",
  "batch": "Summer 2025",
  "industry": "Fintech",
  "subindustry": "Fintech -> Insurance",
  "industries": ["Fintech", "Insurance"],
  "tags": ["API", "Insurance", "AI"],
  "teamSize": 5,
  "stage": "Early",
  "status": "Active",
  "allLocations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
  "regions": ["United States of America", "America / Canada"],
  "isRemoteFriendly": false,
  "topCompany": false,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "launchedAt": "2025-08-19",
  "ycCompanyId": 30663,
  "checkedAt": "2026-09-05T15:54:05+00:00"
}

Every run also writes a summary to the key-value store under OUTPUT:

{ "totalHiring": 1477, "totalReturned": 5, "checkedAt": "2026-09-05T15:54:05+00:00" }

How to use it

1. Click Start with empty input to get every YC company that is hiring.
2. Add filters to narrow it down (all optional, see below).
3. Export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML, or pull them from the Apify API.
4. Optional: set a schedule to re-run it daily and watch the list change.

Input

Everything is optional. An empty input returns the complete list.

Field	Type	What it does
maxCompanies	integer	Cap the number of companies returned
search	string	Free-text match on name, tagline, and description
batch	array	W25, S25, or Summer 2025 — both styles work
industry	array	Matches industry, sub-industry, industries, and tags
location	array	Matches locations and regions
stage	array	Early or Growth
minTeamSize	integer	Only companies with at least this many people
remoteOnly	boolean	Only companies whose YC regions include remote
topCompaniesOnly	boolean	Only YC's top companies

Filters combine with AND. Values inside one filter combine with OR. Text matching is case-insensitive and partial, so "industry": ["fin"] catches Fintech.

Example — small remote-friendly fintech startups from the newest batches:

{
  "batch": ["S25", "F25", "W26"],
  "industry": ["Fintech"],
  "remoteOnly": true,
  "maxCompanies": 50
}

Example — everything, no filters:

{}

Pricing

$0.15 per run on the free plan, dropping to $0.08 on higher Apify plans.

You are charged once per run, regardless of what comes back. Pulling all ~1,500 hiring companies costs exactly the same as pulling three, so there is no reason to hold back on the broad queries. A daily schedule works out to roughly $4.50 a month.

There is no per-result fee and no compute surprise: the Actor caps at 1 GB of memory, which is one billable event per run.

Integrations

Because the output is a plain list, it drops straight into the rest of the Apify ecosystem: push results to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable, Zapier, Make, or your own webhook, or query the dataset from the API. Schedule it daily and you have a live feed of hiring YC startups.

Where the data comes from

yc-oss/api, a community-maintained mirror of Y Combinator's public company directory, rebuilt daily. This Actor reads its companies/hiring.json slice — exactly the set of companies flagged isHiring: true, the same flag that puts a company on the YC jobs board.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? The upstream mirror rebuilds daily, so the list reflects YC's directory as of the last sync rather than the last minute. For a hiring list that turns over across days and weeks, that is the right resolution.

Does "hiring" mean a specific role is open? It means the company has open roles listed with YC. Individual postings can be filled between syncs, which is why every row carries jobsUrl pointing at that company's live listings.

Can I get the individual job postings, titles, and salaries? Not from this Actor — it returns companies, by design. For per-role detail including titles, salary ranges, equity, and founders, use YC Jobs Scraper.

Does it need a YC login or proxy? No. It reads a public data source, so there is nothing to authenticate and nothing to get blocked.

Is this legal? It reads public company directory data, no personal data and nothing behind a login. As always, what you do with the data afterwards is on you — check the Apify guide on ethical scraping if you plan to use it commercially.

Feedback

Found a bug or want another filter? Open an issue on the Actor's GitHub repo or use the Issues tab on the Actor page.