Y Combinator Scraper: YC Startup Directory + Job Boards

Export the entire Y Combinator startup directory (6,300+ companies across every batch) or just the slice you need: by batch, industry, region, status, stage, team size, launch date or "is hiring". Each company comes with its website, one-liner, description, batch, status, team size, industries, tags, locations, logo and YC profile link.

Unique add-on: Careers/ATS Finder. Optionally visit each startup's website and detect its careers page and ATS job board (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Workable, BambooHR, Rippling, YC Work at a Startup). Then feed the board URLs into our ATS Job Scraper or Workday Jobs Scraper to get every open job at YC startups.

Why use this Y Combinator scraper?

• ⚡ Fast and cheap: the full directory (6,338 companies) exported in about 15 seconds in our test. There's no browser; it uses the same search endpoint as the ycombinator.com/companies page.
• 🎯 All the directory's filters, plus team size and launch-date filters the website doesn't have.
• 🧾 Company data only. No founder names, emails or other personal data are collected.
• 💸 Pay only for companies you get. The ATS add-on is charged only when a job board is actually found.

What can you use YC company data for?

• Lead lists for selling to startups (dev tools, SaaS, recruiting, fintech)
• Recruiting: find hiring YC startups and their job boards
• VC/market research: batch-by-batch analysis of industries, outcomes (Active / Acquired / Public / Inactive) and team growth
• Feeds for AI agents, CRMs (HubSpot, Salesforce), Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, Make, n8n

Input examples

All hiring B2B companies from the Summer 2025 batch, with their job boards:

{"batches": ["Summer 2025"], "industries": ["B2B"], "onlyHiring": true, "detectCareersPage": true}

Every YC company with 50–500 employees in Europe:

{"regions": ["Europe"], "minTeamSize": 50, "maxTeamSize": 500}

Batch, industry and region values are the same labels shown in the directory's filters (e.g. Winter 2024, Fintech, United States of America, Remote).

Output

Here's a real item from a test run, with the description shortened:

{
  "id": 1005,
  "name": "Truebill",
  "slug": "truebill",
  "oneLiner": "Live your best financial life",
  "description": "Rocket Money (formerly Truebill) is a leading personal finance app that analyzes members' spending habits, identifies inefficiencies, and offers immediate metho...",
  "website": "https://www.truebill.com",
  "batch": "Winter 2016",
  "status": "Acquired",
  "stage": "Growth",
  "teamSize": 225,
  "industry": "Fintech",
  "subindustry": "Fintech -> Consumer Finance",
  "industries": [
    "Fintech",
    "Consumer Finance"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "Fintech"
  ],
  "locations": "Silver Spring, MD, USA",
  "regions": [
    "United States of America",
    "America / Canada",
    "Remote",
    "Partly Remote"
  ],
  "isHiring": false,
  "topCompany": true,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "formerNames": [],
  "launchedAt": "2015-11-12",
  "logoUrl": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fae52e07d79df342dcfc28d120038d2083ae0679.png",
  "ycUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truebill",
  "ycJobsUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truebill/jobs",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-26T13:49:19+00:00",
  "careersUrl": "https://www.rocketmoney.com/careers",
  "atsProvider": "greenhouse",
  "atsBoardToken": "truebill",
  "atsBoardUrl": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/truebill"
}

The careersUrl, atsProvider, atsBoardToken and atsBoardUrl fields only appear when the add-on is on. atsBoardToken is the board slug that ATS Job Scraper accepts directly (for Workday it's tenant/site). You can download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API. A RUN_SUMMARY record shows matched, saved and detected counts.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• company: each company saved to the dataset.
• careers-lookup (add-on): charged only when an external ATS job board is detected. Lookups with no board, and YC Work at a Startup links, are free.

See the Pricing tab for current prices. Set Max cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly at your budget.

Notes

• ATS detection reads the homepage HTML and one careers page. Sites that build their careers page fully in JavaScript, or host jobs on their own domain (e.g. Stripe), return no board. In our tests it found a board or YC job link for 10 of 25 hiring Summer 2024 startups and 2 of 14 top fintech companies.
• The data comes from YC's public directory, so it's as fresh as YC's listing. Team size and status are what YC shows.

Is it legal?

It reads the public YC company directory, the same data anyone sees at ycombinator.com/companies. It collects business information only, with no personal data. Use the results in line with applicable laws and YC's terms.

Other Actors by Birchwood Data

Our Actors are built to chain together: find companies → find their job boards → scrape every job → screenshot or structure the results.

Actor	What it does
ATS Job Scraper	Jobs from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters and Recruitee career pages, with salary, remote flag and new/removed-job tracking.
Workday Jobs Scraper	Jobs from any Workday (myworkdayjobs.com) career site: NVIDIA, Salesforce, Adobe and thousands more. Same core fields as ATS Job Scraper.
Website Screenshot API	Bulk full-page or mobile screenshots of any URL, e.g. company websites from the YC list or career pages you monitor.
Text to JSON	Turn job descriptions, emails or PDFs into JSON matching your own schema. For example, pull skills or tech stack out of descriptionText.

Example pipeline: Y Combinator Scraper (onlyHiring, detectCareersPage) → feed the atsBoardUrl values into ATS Job Scraper or Workday Jobs Scraper → schedule daily with onlyNewJobs → send new jobs to Slack, Google Sheets or your ATS via Apify integrations.

Support

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