🚀 Y Combinator Founders Scraper

Want to track the brilliant minds behind the world's most successful startups? This Y Combinator Founders scraper makes it super easy!

Just apply your desired filters on the YC Founders directory (by industry, batch, region, or gender), copy the resulting URL, and let the scraper extract up to 300 detailed founder profiles, seamlessly packing personal backgrounds, company details, and social media links into a clean CSV or JSON file.

💡 Perfect for...

• Investors & VCs: Build targeted lists of founders in specific industries (e.g., Fintech, AI, Healthcare) or recent batches to track promising startups and reach out directly.
• B2B Sales & Recruiting: Find verified LinkedIn and X (Twitter) handles for founders to power high-quality outreach campaigns.
• Market Researchers: Analyze trends in YC's portfolio by extracting team sizes, geographic locations, and industry tags.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Feed rich founder bios and company descriptions into vector stores to let AI agents answer questions like "Who are the YC founders working on AI in London?"

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🎯 Total Flexibility: Instead of rigid categories, you simply paste the URL from your own search on the YC Founders page. The scraper respects any combination of filters you apply.
• ⚙️ Deep Dual Extraction: Extracts not just the founder's name and bio, but also seamlessly navigates to the associated company page to pull full company metrics, taglines, and descriptions.
• 🔗 Comprehensive Social Links: Captures the founder's personal LinkedIn and X accounts, plus the company's website, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, GitHub, and Crunchbase profiles (when available).
• 👤 Clean Structured Data: Returns highly structured data ready for your CRM or spreadsheet, bypassing the need to parse dynamic JavaScript or hidden UI elements manually.

📦 What's inside the data?

For every single founder, you will get:

• Founder Details: id, founder_name, current_title, description (bio), avatar_thumb
• Founder Socials: linkedin_url, x_url
• YC Metadata: yc_titles, batches, yc_industries, yc_parent_industries, yc_subindustries, current_region, top_company
• Company Details: current_company, company_tagline, company_description, company_founded, company_size, company_status, company_location
• Company Links: ycombinator_company_url (YC page), company_website, company_linkedin_url, company_x_url, company_facebook_url, company_github_url, company_crunchbase_url

🚀 Quick start

1. Go to the YC Founders page (ycombinator.com/founders) and apply any filters you want.
2. Copy the URL from your browser's address bar.
3. Paste the URL into the input_url field of this actor.
4. Set num_founders (how many founders you want to scrape, up to 300).
5. Click Start and let it run! 🚀 Once it's done, you can export your data as a CSV, Excel spreadsheet, or JSON file.

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Tech details for developers 🧑‍💻

Input Example:

{
  "num_founders": 200,
  "input_url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/founders?yc_parent_industries=Education"
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "967",
  "founder_name": "Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock",
  "current_title": "Founder",
  "description": "Cofounder & CEO of the Recurse Center.",
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasbs",
  "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/nicholasbs",
  "avatar_thumb": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/avatars/bdb1f6ec56b4bf7ba6eb4b1150031d502b8efabb.jpg",
  "current_company": "Recurse Center",
  "yc_titles": [
    "Founder"
  ],
  "batches": [
    "S10"
  ],
  "yc_industries": [
    [
      "Education"
    ]
  ],
  "yc_parent_industries": [
    "Education"
  ],
  "yc_subindustries": [
    "Education"
  ],
  "current_region": "United States of America",
  "top_company": false,
  "company_slug": "recurse-center",
  "ycombinator_company_url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/recurse-center",
  "company_website": "https://www.recurse.com",
  "company_linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/recurse-center/",
  "company_x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/recursecenter",
  "company_facebook_url": null,
  "company_github_url": "https://github.com/recursecenter",
  "company_crunchbase_url": null,
  "company_founded": 2010,
  "company_size": 7,
  "company_status": "Active",
  "company_location": "New York",
  "company_tagline": "The retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow",
  "company_description": "The Recurse Center is a self-directed, educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming, whether they've been programming for three decades or three months.\n\nThe retreat is free for all participants because we run an integrated recruiting agency and provide (optional) personalized recruiting services to anyone in our community considering a new job."
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
input_url	string	Yes	The URL from the YC Founders directory with your desired filters applied. Default: https://www.ycombinator.com/founders?yc_parent_industries=Fintech.
num_founders	integer	No	Target number of founders to scrape. Min 10, max 300, default 100.