Y Combinator Scraper - YC Companies, Founders & Jobs

What is Y Combinator Scraper?

Y Combinator Scraper is a tool that lets you scrape the Y Combinator startup directory: every YC company with its batch, status, team size, location, industries, tags, website and one-liner, plus, on request, social links, year founded, founders and open jobs from each company page. It also gives you the founders listed on each company page (name, title, bio and public LinkedIn and X links) and open jobs at YC startups with salary, equity, experience, visa terms and the exact posting date. Pick a batch, an industry or a keyword, click Start, and download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON.

• ⚡ Fast: the whole directory of 6,268 YC companies in under a minute; 1,000 full company profiles in about 30 seconds, 1,000 founders in about 20 seconds and 1,000 jobs in about 70 seconds (our tests)
• 🎯 Every filter of the directory: batch, industry, sub-industry, region, team size, status, tags, hiring, nonprofit and top companies
• 👥 Founders and jobs in the same tool: one row per founder or per job, with the company it belongs to
• 🔓 No login: no Y Combinator or Work at a Startup account needed

What can Y Combinator Scraper do?

• Export the YC company directory to Excel or CSV, the whole list or one batch at a time
• Scrape YC companies by batch, like Winter 2025 or Summer 2024, or by the short form W25 and S24
• Filter YC startups by industry and sub-industry: B2B, Fintech, Healthcare, Payments, Developer Tools and more
• Find YC companies by region and team size: remote teams, companies in Europe or India, startups with 1 to 10 people
• List acquired, public or inactive YC companies, or only top companies, nonprofits or companies hiring now
• Get YC founders for any batch or company: name, title, bio and the LinkedIn and X links shown on the company page
• Scrape YC startup jobs: title, location, salary range, equity, experience, visa sponsorship, skills and posting date
• Look up single companies by pasting their Y Combinator links
• Export to Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML or XML, or send the data to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier and more

What data can you extract from Y Combinator?

🏢 Company name, one-liner, description	🌐 Website and logo	🎓 YC batch
🚦 Status: active, acquired, public, inactive	👥 Team size	📍 Location, city, country, regions
🏭 Industry and sub-industry	🏷️ Tags	💼 Hiring now and open jobs count
⭐ Top company and nonprofit flags	📅 Year founded and launch date	🔗 LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Crunchbase, GitHub
🧑‍💼 Founders: name, title, bio	🔗 Founder LinkedIn and X links	🤝 Primary YC partner
💻 Job title, role, specialty, type	💰 Salary and equity range	🗓️ Job posting date and description

How to scrape Y Combinator

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Open Y Combinator Scraper.
3. Choose Companies, Founders or Jobs under What to scrape.
4. Pick filters (batch, industry, region, status...), type a keyword, or paste YC company links.
5. Click Start, then download the results as Excel, CSV, JSON or HTML.

⬇️ Input

Setting	What it does
What to scrape	Companies (one row per company), Founders (one row per founder) or Jobs (one row per open job)
Keyword	Words to search company names and descriptions for, like developer tools
Batches	YC batches, like Winter 2025 or W25, S24, F25 (Fall), P26 (Spring)
Industries and Sub-industries	Like B2B, Fintech, Healthcare, or narrower ones like Payments and Infrastructure
Regions	Countries or regions, like United States of America, Europe, India, Remote
Status	Active, Acquired, Public or Inactive
Tags	Topic tags, like Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Developer Tools
Team size from / to	Smallest and largest team size
Hiring now, Nonprofits only, Top companies only	Narrow the list to these companies
Company or job links	YC company links (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb), short names (airbnb) or job links
Company details	Companies only: adds year founded, city, social links, founders, primary partner and open jobs count from each company page
Job roles, Job types, Job location contains	Jobs only: keep Engineering, Sales, Design... jobs, Full-time, Internship or Contract, and jobs whose location contains words like Remote
Max results	Most rows to save in the whole run (default 100). Set 0 for no limit

Every Winter 2025 company:

{
  "dataType": "companies",
  "batches": ["Winter 2025"],
  "maxResults": 0
}

Founders of active fintech companies with 1 to 20 people:

{
  "dataType": "founders",
  "industries": ["Fintech"],
  "statuses": ["Active"],
  "teamSizeMin": 1,
  "teamSizeMax": 20,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Remote engineering jobs at YC startups:

{
  "dataType": "jobs",
  "jobRoles": ["Engineering"],
  "jobLocation": "Remote",
  "maxResults": 200
}

Full profiles of a few companies:

{
  "dataType": "companies",
  "startUrls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe", "airbnb", "doordash"]
}

⬆️ Output

Each run saves one kind of row; the type field says which. A company with Company details on:

{
  "type": "company",
  "id": 240,
  "name": "Stripe",
  "slug": "stripe",
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe",
  "oneLiner": "Economic infrastructure for the internet.",
  "longDescription": "Launched out of Y Combinator’s 2009 Summer batch, Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet...",
  "website": "http://stripe.com",
  "batch": "Summer 2009",
  "status": "Active",
  "stage": "Growth",
  "teamSize": 7000,
  "location": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "country": "US",
  "regions": ["United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote"],
  "industry": "Fintech",
  "subindustry": null,
  "industries": ["Fintech"],
  "tags": ["Banking as a Service", "Fintech", "SaaS"],
  "isHiring": true,
  "topCompany": true,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "yearFounded": 2009,
  "launchedAt": "2012-01-17T08:56:24Z",
  "formerNames": [],
  "logoUrl": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e5ccedd9995f6524b4a0379062eb67f7c991613e.png",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/stripe/",
  "twitterUrl": "https://twitter.com/stripe",
  "facebookUrl": null,
  "crunchbaseUrl": null,
  "githubUrl": "https://github.com/stripe",
  "primaryPartner": null,
  "founders": [
    {"name": "Patrick Collison", "title": "Founder/CEO", "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickcollison/", "twitterUrl": "https://twitter.com/patrickc"},
    {"name": "John Collison", "title": "Founder/President", "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbcollison/", "twitterUrl": "https://twitter.com/collision"}
  ],
  "openJobs": 3,
  "source": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-02T14:37:21Z"
}

Without details, a company row has the same fields with yearFounded, city, country, the social links, primaryPartner, founders and openJobs empty.

A founder:

{
  "type": "founder",
  "founderId": 1455159,
  "name": "Hammad Malik",
  "title": "Founder/CEO",
  "bio": "CEO at Uplift AI. Building Voice Models for regional languages...",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hammad2",
  "twitterUrl": null,
  "currentFounder": true,
  "companyId": 30806,
  "companyName": "Uplift AI",
  "companySlug": "uplift-ai",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplift-ai",
  "companyBatch": "Summer 2025",
  "companyStatus": "Active",
  "companyWebsite": "https://upliftai.org/",
  "source": "directory search: Summer 2025, Active",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-02T14:36:53Z"
}

A job:

{
  "type": "job",
  "jobId": 15934,
  "title": "Machine Learning Engineer",
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tempo/jobs/9yHUaZmrv-machine-learning-engineer",
  "location": "San Francisco, CA",
  "jobType": "Full-time",
  "role": "Engineering",
  "specialty": "Machine learning",
  "salaryRange": "$100K - $200K",
  "salaryMin": 100000,
  "salaryMax": 200000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "equityRange": "0.10% - 1.00%",
  "experience": "1+ years",
  "visa": "US citizen/visa only",
  "skills": ["C++", "Python", "Machine Learning", "CUDA"],
  "postedAt": "2019-05-31T19:05:51Z",
  "description": "At SmartSpot, you'll be responsible for improving our pipeline for processing 3D data of human exercise...",
  "descriptionHtml": "<p>At SmartSpot, you'll be responsible for improving our pipeline for processing 3D data...",
  "applyUrl": "https://account.ycombinator.com/authenticate?continue=...",
  "companyName": "Tempo",
  "companySlug": "tempo",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tempo",
  "companyBatch": "Winter 2015",
  "companyOneLiner": "Live home fitness training powered by computer vision.",
  "source": "directory search (all companies)",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-02T14:46:47Z"
}

The Overview tab lists every row, and the Companies, Founders and Jobs tabs show each kind as its own table. The run report names any company or job link that does not exist.

How can I use Y Combinator data?

• Lead generation: build lists of YC startups by batch, industry, region and size, with websites and LinkedIn pages
• Investor and market research: map a sector across batches, see which companies were acquired, went public or shut down
• Founder outreach and recruiting: reach founders through the LinkedIn and X links they publish on their YC page
• Job search and salary research: compare salary and equity ranges, visa terms and experience asked across YC startups
• Competitor tracking: follow which startups in your space are hiring and how fast their teams grow
• Datasets for analysis: every YC company since 2005 with consistent fields, ready for a spreadsheet or a database

How many results can I get?

All of them. The whole directory (6,268 companies when we tested) comes out in one run; a single filter is never cut short. Founders and jobs runs read the company pages of the companies your filters match, so their size follows the filters: in our tests 554 company pages gave 1,000 founders, and 327 hiring companies gave 1,000 jobs. A company or job found twice in one run is saved once.

❓FAQ

How much does it cost to scrape Y Combinator?

You pay per row saved: per company, per company with details, per founder or per job. See the Pricing tab for the current prices. Max results keeps the cost of a run under control, and you can also set a maximum cost per run.

Do I get founders' emails or phone numbers?

No. The founders rows hold what Y Combinator publishes on each company page: name, title, bio, and the LinkedIn and X links the founder chose to show. Contact details that are not shown publicly are not collected.

What is the difference between a company row with and without details?

Without details, a row comes straight from the directory list and is the fastest and cheapest way to export many companies. With Company details on, each company page is read too, adding year founded, city and country, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Crunchbase and GitHub links, founders, the primary YC partner and the number of open jobs.

Which jobs are included?

Open jobs that YC startups list publicly on their Y Combinator company pages. Jobs runs only look at companies that are hiring, and you can keep only some roles, job types or locations.

Do I need a Y Combinator account?

No. The scraper reads the public directory, company pages and job pages anyone can see without signing in.

What happens with a wrong link or a company that no longer exists?

The run goes on with the other inputs and the run report lists the links that do not exist. A filter value the directory does not know, like a misspelled batch, is named in the error message before the run starts, with the values you can use.

Can I call it as an API?

Yes. Run it through the Apify API from any language, or use its real-time endpoints /companies?batch=W25&q=ai, /founders?batch=W25 and /jobs?role=Engineering that answer with the rows directly.

Is it legal to scrape Y Combinator?

This scraper collects publicly available information. Make sure your use follows applicable laws, including data protection rules when you contact founders, and Y Combinator's terms. This tool is not affiliated with or endorsed by Y Combinator.

Something is not working, or I need another field

Open an issue in the Issues tab with your input and what you expected. We read every one and usually reply within a day.

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