🚀 Y Combinator Scraper - Rental ($10/month) 🚀

A high-performance web scraper for extracting comprehensive company data from Y Combinator - the world's leading startup accelerator.

Whether you're an investor, founder, researcher, or developer, this tool helps you gather detailed data on 5000+ YC-backed companies — perfect for market analysis, investment research, competitive intelligence, and identifying emerging startups.

✨ Key Features

✅ Super simple to get started

• Just provide a Y Combinator URL to start scraping company data in 2 steps.
• Alternatively select your filters directly in Apify.

✅ Comprehensive Company Data

• Scrape detailed information from Y Combinator's company directory
• Access data on 5000+ startups across all YC batches
• Real-time data directly from Y Combinator's official sources

✅ Rich Company Information

• Company names, descriptions, and taglines
• Founding year and batch information
• Team size and location data
• Hiring status and job openings
• Industry categories and tags
• Company websites and social links
• Logo and visual assets
• Optional founder details and profiles

✅ Advanced Filtering & Search

• Filter companies by batch (e.g., W24, S23)
• Search by industry vertical (AI, B2B, Consumer, etc.)
• Location-based filtering (SF, NYC, Remote, etc.)
• Custom result limits for controlled data extraction

✅ Bulk Processing & High Performance

• Process entire batches or filtered searches efficiently
• Built-in retry mechanisms for reliability
• Optimized concurrent request handling
• Smart rate limiting for stable performance

✅ Structured Data Output

• Clean, structured JSON output
• Export-ready for analysis, CRM systems, or databases
• Consistent data schema across all companies

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🗂 Use Cases

• Investors & VCs
  Identify promising startups, track portfolio companies, analyze investment trends across YC batches, and discover opportunities early.

• Founders & Entrepreneurs
  Research successful YC companies, analyze competitive landscapes, find potential partners or collaborators, and learn from YC alumni.

• Market Researchers
  Track startup trends, analyze emerging industries, understand YC's impact on various sectors, and identify market gaps.

• Sales & Business Development
  Build targeted lead lists of YC companies, identify potential customers or partners, and understand company growth stages.

• Recruiters & Talent Acquisition
  Discover fast-growing YC startups hiring talent, track company expansions, and identify opportunities at early-stage companies.

• Job Seekers & Career Changers
  Find exciting opportunities at YC startups, discover companies actively hiring, identify fast-growing teams, and explore career paths at innovative companies.

• Journalists & Analysts
  Research YC ecosystem trends, track unicorn trajectories, analyze batch success rates, and identify newsworthy startups.

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🔖 Output Example

Standard company data output:

{
  "id": 531,
  "name": "DoorDash",
  "slug": "doordash",
  "former_names": [],
  "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d13287c52acc96909f32342e85c26a33cfdac310.png",
  "website": "http://doordash.com",
  "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
  "long_description": "Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants in more than 600 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time. \r\n\r\nRead more at blog.doordash.com, and find us on Glassdoor.",
  "one_liner": "Restaurant delivery.",
  "team_size": 8600,
  "industry": "Consumer",
  "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage",
  "launched_at": 1367523459,
  "tags": [
    "Marketplace",
    "E-commerce"
  ],
  "tags_highlighted": [],
  "top_company": true,
  "isHiring": true,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "batch": "Summer 2013",
  "status": "Public",
  "industries": [
    "Consumer",
    "Food and Beverage"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "United States of America",
    "America / Canada"
  ],
  "stage": "Growth",
  "app_video_public": false,
  "demo_day_video_public": false,
  "app_answers": null,
  "question_answers": false,
  "objectID": "531"
}

With founder details and job postings enabled:

{
	..., // in addition to the standard info (see above):

	"batch_name": "Summer 2013",
	"small_logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d13287c52acc96909f32342e85c26a33cfdac310.png",
	"ycdc_status": "Public",
	"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/logos/7537815bdd5f34914ea5445ea3589061df16769c.png",
	"year_founded": 2013,
	"location": "San Francisco",
	"city": "San Francisco",
	"city_tag": "san-francisco-bay-area",
	"country": "US",
	"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/doordash/",
	"twitter_url": "http://twitter.com/doordash",
	"fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/DoorDash/",
	"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/doordash",
	"github_url": null,
	"free_response_question_answers": [
		{
			"id": "1",
			"answer": "",
			"question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)"
		},
		... // other questions
	],
	"dday_video_url": null,
	"dday_presenter_id": null,
	"app_video_url": null,
	"ycdc_company_url": "/companies/doordash",
	"fundraising_meeting_url": null,
	"company_photos": [],
	"primary_group_partner": null,
	"founders": [
		{
			"user_id": 14644,
			"is_active": true,
			"founder_bio": null,
			"full_name": "Tony Xu",
			"title": "Founder/CEO",
			"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1d5915aa4f0da14e3b2e60fc1c3322fc42d58e20.jpg",
			"twitter_url": null,
			"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/xutony",
			"has_email": true,
			"latest_yc_company": {
				"name": "DoorDash",
				"href": "/companies/doordash"
			}
		},
		... // other founders
	],
	"jobPostings": [
		{
			"id": 249,
			"title": "Software Engineer, Android",
			"url": "/companies/doordash/jobs/BV8AJW4Tt-software-engineer-android",
			"applyUrl": "https://account.ycombinator.com/authenticate?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.workatastartup.com%2Fapplication%3Fsignup_job_id%3D249&defaults%5BsignUpActive%5D=true&defaults%5Bwaas_company%5D=531",
			"location": "901 Market, SF, CA 94105",
			"askUs": true,
			"type": "Full-time",
			"role": "eng",
			"roleSpecificType": "Android",
			"salaryRange": "",
			"equityRange": "",
			"minExperience": "3+ years",
			"minSchoolYear": "",
			"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
			"isIncomplete": false,
			"companyUrl": "/companies/doordash",
			"companyLogoUrl": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d13287c52acc96909f32342e85c26a33cfdac310.png",
			"companyName": "DoorDash",
			"companyBatchName": "S13",
			"companyOneLiner": "Restaurant delivery.",
			"hiringManager": {
				"id": 14622,
				"first_name": "Stanley",
				"last_name": "Tang",
				"avatar_thumb": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/avatars/90a4c921fcc51c82efbcea7449f418310c258201.jpg",
				"avatar_medium": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3fd1147ba974d80e6160b07dfef41eb9ee55349c.jpg"
			},
			"createdAt": "over 7 years",
			"lastActive": null,
			"description": "**What You’ll Achieve**\r\n\r\n- Be an owner of the architecture of our Android applications\r\n- Scale our test infrastructure and automate releases\r\n- Introduce tools and best practices that accelerate our development process\r\n- Build awesome product features to improve our marketplace\r\n\r\n**About you**\r\n\r\n- High-energy and courageous - you’ll do what it takes to win\r\n- You’re an owner - driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work\r\n- Humble - you’re willing to get into the details and you’re open to feedback\r\n- Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity - things change quickly in our dynamic startup and you’ll need to be able to keep up!\r\n- Growth-minded - you’re eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting\r\n- Desire for impact - ready to take on a lot of responsibility and work collaboratively with your team\r\n\r\n**Qualifications**\r\n\r\n- Eager to work in fast-paced startup environment and a desire to disrupt logistics\r\n- B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent\r\n- 4+ years developing with Android SDK in a production environment\r\n- Strong systems and OOP knowledge\r\n- Well-versed in Android architecture paradigms\r\n- Expert knowledge of Android testing frameworks and best practices for testing\r\n- High bar for code quality\r\n\r\n**Nice To Haves**\r\n\r\n- Experience working full-stack\r\n- Contributor to open source projects",
			"interview_process": null
		},
		... // other job postings
	],
	"jobsUrl": "https://bookface.ycombinator.com/workatastartup",
	"newsItems": [
		{
			"title": "DoorDash wants to deliver everything - The Hustle",
			"url": "https://thehustle.co/11212022-doordash/",
			"date": "Nov 20, 2022"
		},
		... // other news items
	],
	"newsUrl": "https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/531/company_news",
	"launches": []
}

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🚀 Getting Started

Input

Method 1 (copy & paste Y Combinator URL)

Method 2 (Select filters in Apify)

Method 3 (Via JSON, easy to integrate into your automations)

Example 1

{
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?industry=Artificial%20Intelligence",
  "scrape_founder_details": true,
  "max_results": 500
}

Example 2

{
    "app_answers": true,
    "app_video_public": true,
    "batches": [
        "Winter 2025",
        "Summer 2025"
    ],
    "demo_day_video_public": true,
    "industries": [
        "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design",
        "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange"
    ],
    "is_hiring": true,
    "max_results": 50,
    "nonprofit": true,
    "question_answers": true,
    "regions": [
        "Remote",
        "Partly Remote",
        "Europe"
    ],
    "scrape_company_details": true,
    "scrape_job_posting_details": true,
    "sort_by": "launch_date",
    "team_size_min": "1",
    "team_size_max": "10",
    "top_company": true
}

Configuration Options

• url: [Required] Y Combinator companies URL with optional filters
• scrape_founder_details: Fetch detailed founder information (default: false)
• max_results: Maximum number of companies to scrape (default: no limit)

Supported URL Filters

You can add these filters to the base URL:

• batch: YC batch (e.g., W24, S23, F22)
• industry: Industry vertical (AI, B2B, Consumer, Fintech, etc.)
• location: Company location
• team_size: Company size range
• is_hiring: Is the Company currently hiring
• ...

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Performance

• Processes 1000+ companies per minute
• Automatic session management for uninterrupted scraping
• Concurrent request handling for optimal speed

Data Freshness

• Real-time data directly from Y Combinator's database
• No stale or cached information
• Immediate updates when YC adds new companies or batches

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📊 Output Schema

The scraper returns structured JSON data with the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Company name
slug	string	Unique company identifier
description	string	Company description
batch	string	YC batch (e.g., W24, S23)
year_founded	number	Founding year
location	string	Company headquarters
team_size	string	Employee count range
is_hiring	boolean	Whether company is actively hiring
industries	array	Industry categories
website	string	Company website URL
logo_url	string	Company logo URL
status	string	Current company status
tags	array	Special tags (Unicorn, Top Company, etc.)
founders	array	Founder details (when enabled)
social_links	object	Social media profiles

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🤝 Support

For questions, feature requests, or issues, contact us through the Apify platform.