Gregslist Software Companies

The full Gregslist directory of local software & SaaS companies — as structured data. Every company comes with its funding tier, its named founders (with LinkedIn), its city, and its website. A curated, operator-focused list you can't get anywhere else on Apify.

Why Gregslist, not a generic company database

• The company, with its funding and founders — not just a name. Each record carries the funding classification (self-funded / VC-funded / acquired / public), the named founders and executives with their LinkedIn profiles, the company's website and careers page, and its city. Prospecting-ready in one row.
• A curated source you can't scrape elsewhere. Gregslist is hand-maintained by Greg Head — a clean, deduplicated list of operating software and SaaS companies across 12 North American hubs, heavy on the bootstrapped and self-funded companies that Crunchbase and PitchBook under-cover. No other Apify actor covers it.
• By city. Pull a specific tech hub (Austin, Denver, Boston, …) — the 12 metros Gregslist tracks — to build a local company list.
• Clean, not noisy. A human editor keeps it current, so you get real companies with real founders, not a scrape full of duplicates and dead entries.

Who it's for

• Sales & lead-gen teams — founders + LinkedIn + website on every company — a target list becomes reachable prospects, not just names.
• Recruiters & talent researchers — map the software employers in a city, with their founders and funding stage.
• Investors & market researchers — track the bootstrapped / self-funded SaaS landscape by city — the segment the VC databases miss.

Quick start

Two cities

{
  "cities": [
    "austin",
    "denver"
  ]
}

One city, founders included

{
  "cities": [
    "boston"
  ],
  "includePeople": true
}

Cap the run

{
  "cities": [
    "denver"
  ],
  "maxCompanies": 50
}

Output

One record per company:

field	meaning
name	Company name.
description	One-line description of what the company does.
funding	Funding classification: Self-funded, VC-funded, Acquired, Public, and so on.
employees	Employee band (e.g. 51-200 employees).
city	The Gregslist city hub the company is listed under.
website	The company's own website.
careers_url	The company's careers / jobs page, when listed.
linkedin	The company's LinkedIn page.
people	Founders and executives, each with name, role, and LinkedIn profile.
profile_url	The company's Gregslist profile page.
slug	Gregslist slug — a stable identifier for the company.
maps_url	Google Maps location, when Gregslist lists one.

Example record:

{
  "name": "23blocks",
  "description": "Backend as a Service using low code platform.",
  "funding": "Self-funded",
  "employees": "11-50 employees",
  "city": "Boulder",
  "website": "https://23blocks.com/",
  "careers_url": null,
  "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/23blocks/about/",
  "people": [
    {
      "name": "Jose Bastidas",
      "role": "CEO and Co-Founder",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-felipe-bastidas-2b173a9/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Juan Pelaez",
      "role": "Chief Technology Officer",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/juancarlospelaez/"
    }
  ],
  "profile_url": "https://gregslist.com/denver/company/23blocks/",
  "slug": "23blocks",
  "maps_url": "https://goo.gl/maps/L428PqHhreH6Pkdp9"
}

Pricing

$0.005 per result ($5 per 1,000 companies) — pay only for the companies a run returns, with no start fee. Company and lead data prices above job data, and this is a curated source — founders with LinkedIn, funding tier, careers page — that no other Apify actor covers. Top-of-commodity plus a premium for the enrichment.

Usage patterns

• Build a local company list — Pass one or more cities and get every software company there with funding tier, founders, and website.
• Founder outreach — Every company carries its founders and executives with LinkedIn profiles — turn the directory into a contact list.
• Segment by funding stage — Filter the results by funding to separate self-funded from VC-funded or acquired companies.

Input configuration

field	type	default	what it does
cities	array	["atlanta", "austin", "boston", "chicago", "dallas", "denver", "houston", "phoenix", "raleigh-durham", "salt-lake-city", "san-diego", "toronto"]	Which city directories to scrape. Valid slugs: atlanta, austin, boston, chicago, dallas, denver, houston, phoenix, raleigh-durham, salt-lake-city, san-diego, toronto. Leave empty for all of them.
includePeople	boolean	true	Include each company's listed founders and executives with their LinkedIn profiles.
maxCompanies	integer	0	Stop after this many companies in total. 0 means no limit (the full directory).
requestDelaySecs	number	0.5	Politeness delay between page requests.
maxPagesPerCity	integer	60	Safety cap on pagination depth per city (each page is ~90 companies).
concurrency	integer	6	Maximum simultaneous Gregslist requests. Lower it if the site starts returning fetch warnings.

FAQ

How is this different from a Crunchbase scraper?

Crunchbase is VC-skewed, paywalled, and rate-limited. Gregslist is a free, human-curated list focused on operating software companies — including the bootstrapped ones Crunchbase under-covers — organized by city, with founders and funding tier. Different source, different segment.

Which cities are covered?

The 12 hubs Gregslist maintains: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Toronto.

Is the data live?

It reflects Gregslist at run time. Greg Head updates the directory on his own cadence; this Actor returns whatever is current when you run it.

Integration

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('hyperbach/gregslist-companies').call({"cities": ["austin", "denver"]});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('hyperbach/gregslist-companies').call(run_input={'cities': ['austin', 'denver']})
items = client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).list_items().items

CLI

$apify call hyperbach/gregslist-companies --input '{"cities": ["austin", "denver"]}'

REST

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hyperbach~gregslist-companies/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"cities": ["austin", "denver"]}'

Support

support@hyperbach.com

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