Wellfound Startup Scraper With Emails | AngelList Directory

Slug: fatihtahta/wellfound-startup-scraper-with-contacts

Overview

This actor is built upon the ValidatedMails.com architecture for email enrichment workflows.

Wellfound Startup Scraper With Emails | AngelList Directory collects structured startup records, including company profile attributes, hiring indicators, market and location tags, reputation signals, crawl metadata, and optional contact enrichment details. It is designed to convert Wellfound directory and company pages into consistent JSON records that are ready for analytics and operational workflows. Wellfound is a widely used startup ecosystem platform, making its directory data valuable for sourcing, benchmarking, and trend analysis. This actor automates repetitive collection steps so teams can run the same data workflow reliably at scale. The result is less manual work, more consistent datasets, and faster time to insight.

Why Use This Actor

• Market researchers and analysts: Build recurring startup landscape datasets for sector sizing, regional comparisons, hiring momentum tracking, and category-level trend reporting.
• Product and content teams: Discover emerging companies, monitor category movement, and prioritize editorial or product opportunities with structured startup and market-tag data.
• Developers and data engineers: Feed ETL jobs, internal data marts, dashboards, and APIs with machine-readable records that are stable and easy to process.
• Lead generation and enrichment teams: Source target accounts, append business contact signals (when enabled), and streamline CRM enrichment for outreach preparation.
• Monitoring and competitive intelligence teams: Track changes across startup profiles, hiring posture, and market positioning over time for ongoing competitive visibility.

Input Parameters

Provide any combination of URLs, queries, and filters to match your collection goal.

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
getAll	boolean	When true, collects broadly from the full Wellfound startup directory and ignores startUrls, industry, location, and tech. Allowed values: true, false.	false
startUrls	array<string>	One or more Wellfound URLs to collect directly, such as startup search/directory pages or specific startup profile pages.	–
industry	string	Optional industry keyword or slug to narrow results (for example: fintech, health-tech, artificial-intelligence).	–
location	string	Optional hiring-location keyword or slug to target startups hiring in a region (for example: new-york, london, remote).	–
tech	string	Optional technology keyword or slug to filter by startup tech footprint (for example: python, react, management, microsoft-office).	–
getContacts	boolean	When true, includes available business contact enrichment fields (emails, phone numbers, social profiles). Allowed values: true, false.	false
limit	integer	Maximum listings to save per query. Minimum value: 10. Use smaller values for validation runs and larger values for deeper coverage.	50000
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional connection settings for long or large runs. Default uses Apify Proxy with Residential group.	{"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]}

Example Input

{
  "getAll": false,
  "startUrls": [
    "https://wellfound.com/startups/industry/virtual-reality-3"
  ],
  "industry": "fintech",
  "location": "london",
  "tech": "python",
  "getContacts": true,
  "limit": 1500
}

Output

6.1 Output destination

The actor writes results to an Apify dataset as JSON records. And the dataset is designed for direct consumption by analytics tools, ETL pipelines, and downstream APIs without post-processing.

6.2 Record envelope (all items)

Every dataset item includes the following stable envelope fields:

• type (string, required)
• id (number, required)
• url (string, required)

Recommended idempotency key: type + ":" + id
Use this key for deduplication and upserts when the same entity appears across multiple inputs or repeated runs.

6.3 Examples

Example: startup (type = "startup")

{
  "type": "startup",
  "id": 28804,
  "url": "https://wellfound.com/company/homelight",
  "title": "HomeLight",
  "company_profile": {
    "website_url": "https://www.homelight.com",
    "logo_url": "https://photos.wellfound.com/startups/i/28804-00e4e7d1013076846b81724c74c417e0-medium_jpg.jpg?buster=1589639645",
    "one_liner": "Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying",
    "description": "We’re the essential technology platform used by homebuyers and sellers to partner with top real estate agents and improve transaction outcomes.",
    "company_size": "501 to 1,000 Employees"
  },
  "hiring_overview": {
    "open_roles_total": 9,
    "roles_breakdown": [
      {
        "positionId": "154874",
        "positionName": "Management",
        "totalJobPostings": 1
      },
      {
        "positionId": "80488",
        "positionName": "Sales",
        "totalJobPostings": 3
      }
    ],
    "is_actively_hiring": true
  },
  "market_presence": {
    "market_tags": [
      {
        "marketTagId": "16",
        "marketTagName": "real estate",
        "marketTagSlug": "real-estate-1",
        "marketTagDisplayName": "Real Estate",
        "marketTagNoindex": false
      }
    ],
    "location_tags": [
      {
        "id": "1692",
        "name": "san francisco",
        "slug": "san-francisco",
        "displayName": "San Francisco",
        "locationTagNoindex": false
      }
    ],
    "business_models": [
      "B2B",
      "B2C"
    ]
  },
  "reputation_signals": {
    "badges": [
      {
        "badgeId": "ACTIVELY_HIRING",
        "badgeName": "ACTIVELY_HIRING_BADGE",
        "badgeLabel": "Actively Hiring",
        "badgeTooltip": "Actively processing applications"
      }
    ],
    "high_ratings": [
      {
        "label": "Highly rated",
        "rating": "4.8",
        "tooltip": "Highly rated on external review sources"
      }
    ]
  },
  "crawl_metadata": {
    "listing_url": "https://wellfound.com/company/homelight",
    "source_url": "https://wellfound.com/startups",
    "seed": {
      "type": "all",
      "value": "all-startups"
    },
    "scraped_time": "2026-03-03T17:31:40.067257+00:00"
  },
  "contact_enrichment": {
    "provider": "validatedmails_discover",
    "request_url": "https://www.homelight.com",
    "api_status_code": 200,
    "response": {
      "status": "ok",
      "http_status": 200,
      "source_url": "https://www.homelight.com/",
      "response_ms": 431,
      "bytes_read": 559811,
      "email": {
        "values": [
          "pr@homelight.com"
        ]
      },
      "phone_number": {
        "values": [
          "855-999-7971"
        ]
      },
      "social_media": {
        "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/gohomelight",
        "twitter": "https://twitter.com/gohomelight?lang=en",
        "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/homelight"
      },
      "trace_id": "3fa836ae-4a27-4e89-bbc5-695d899d5ebc"
    }
  }
}

Field reference

Startup fields (type = "startup")

• title (string, optional): Startup display name.
• company_profile.website_url (string, optional): Company website URL.
• company_profile.logo_url (string, optional): Company logo URL.
• company_profile.one_liner (string, optional): Short company summary.
• company_profile.description (string, optional): Long-form company description.
• company_profile.company_size (string, optional): Company size label.
• hiring_overview.open_roles_total (number, optional): Total open roles.
• hiring_overview.is_actively_hiring (boolean, optional): Hiring activity flag.
• hiring_overview.roles_breakdown (array