Wellfound Startup Directory Scraper

Slug: fatihtahta/wellfound-startup-scraper

Overview

This actor collects structured startup listings from Wellfound and stores them as startup records in an Apify dataset. It is designed for startup sourcing, market research, landscape analysis, and recurring monitoring workflows.

The actor stays lightweight: it uses HTTP requests against accessible Wellfound listing pages, follows pagination, applies optional company-size filtering, and saves clean startup-only JSON output.

Input

Supported inputs:

• getAll: scrape from the main Wellfound startup directory.
• startUrls: scrape one or more Wellfound startup listing URLs directly.
• industry: build an industry-filtered startup URL.
• location: build a location-filtered startup URL.
• tech: build a tech-filtered startup URL.
• company_size: keep only startups whose Wellfound size matches one of the selected ranges.
• limit: maximum startups to save per seed.
• proxyConfiguration: optional Apify Proxy configuration.

Example input:

{
  "getAll": false,
  "startUrls": [
    "https://wellfound.com/startups/industry/virtual-reality-3"
  ],
  "industry": "fintech",
  "location": "london",
  "tech": "python",
  "company_size": [
    "1-10",
    "201-500"
  ],
  "limit": 1500
}

Output

The dataset contains only startup records.

Example item:

{
  "type": "startup",
  "id": 28804,
  "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
      }
    ],
    "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"
    ]
  },
  "reputation_signals": {
    "badges": [
      {
        "badgeId": "ACTIVELY_HIRING",
        "badgeName": "ACTIVELY_HIRING_BADGE",
        "badgeLabel": "Actively Hiring",
        "badgeTooltip": "Actively processing applications"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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"
  }
}

Notes

• The actor does not use a full browser session.
• Output is startup-only JSON, suitable for ETL, analytics, and CRM intake pipelines.