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Y Combinator Companies, Batches & Founders

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Scrape the Y Combinator startup directory as data. One row per company: name, website, one-liner, description, batch (W25), status, industry, tags, team size, region, launch date — filtered by batch, industry, status, region or keyword. Optionally adds founders and socials. No API key, no login.

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from $0.30 / 1,000 company returneds

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Insight Solutions

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3 days ago

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Marketing

You can access the Y Combinator Companies, Batches & Founders programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "batches": [
12        "Winter 2025"
13    ],
14    "topCompaniesOnly": false,
15    "nonprofitOnly": false,
16    "isHiring": "any",
17    "sortBy": "default",
18    "queries": [],
19    "industries": [],
20    "statuses": [],
21    "regions": [],
22    "tags": [],
23    "includeFounders": false,
24    "founderRows": false,
25    "maxCompanies": 500,
26    "maxConcurrency": 4,
27    "proxyConfiguration": {
28        "useApifyProxy": true
29    }
30};
31
32// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
33const run = await client.actor("insight.solutions/yc-companies-directory").call(input);
34
35// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
36console.log('Results from dataset');
37console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
38const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
39items.forEach((item) => {
40    console.dir(item);
41});
42
43// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

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The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Y Combinator Companies, Batches & Founders API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

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