Y Combinator Companies Scraper — Startups & Founders

Scrape the Y Combinator startup directory (5,000+ companies) by keyword and filters: batch (W24, S25...), industry, region, tags, hiring now, status and top companies. Each company comes with one-liner, description, batch, status, industry, team size, locations, website, tags and launch date. Turn on founders mode to add every founder's name, title, LinkedIn, Twitter and bio, plus the company's year founded, LinkedIn, Crunchbase and GitHub.

Built for B2B sales to startups, VC and accelerator research, recruiting, and building lists of founders to contact.

Why this one

• All directory filters: batch, industry, region, tags, hiring, status, top companies.
• Founders with LinkedIn in founders mode: a ready outreach list.
• Batch shortcuts: write W24 or Winter 2024, both work.
• Fast: uses the directory's own search, hundreds of companies in seconds.

Input

Hiring fintech startups from recent batches, with founders:

{
  "query": "",
  "batches": ["W24", "S24", "W25"],
  "industries": ["Fintech"],
  "isHiring": true,
  "includeFounders": true,
  "maxCompanies": 300
}

Output (one item per company)

Field	Description
name, slug, url, website, oneLiner, description, logo	identity
batch, status, stage, topCompany, launchedAt, yearFounded	YC data
industry, subindustry, industries, tags, teamSize, locations, regions, isHiring	profile
founders (name, title, linkedin, twitter, bio), linkedin, twitter, crunchbase, github	founders mode

Example output

One real item from a test run (long texts and lists shortened):

{
  "type": "company",
  "name": "burnt",
  "slug": "burnt",
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/burnt",
  "website": "https://getburnt.ai/",
  "oneLiner": "Agentic Operating System for Food Supply Chain",
  "description": "Food Supply Chain companies have been using legacy ERPs for decades. Everyone knows these are necessary evils that essentially run the business but take up a...",
  "batch": "Summer 2025",
  "status": "Active",
  "industry": "B2B",
  "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics",
  "industries": [
    "B2B",
    "Supply Chain and Logistics"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "Supply Chain",
    "Food Tech",
    "AI"
  ],
  "teamSize": 3,
  "locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
  "regions": [
    "United States of America",
    "America / Canada"
  ],
  "isHiring": true,
  "topCompany": false,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "stage": "Early",
  "launchedAt": "2025-08-07",
  "logo": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2af9e43cd6c77970b3bff5071024e812ac9ee3e0.png",
  "formerNames": [
    "burnt AI"
  ],
  "yearFounded": 2023,
  "location": "San Francisco"
}

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How much does it cost?

You pay only for results delivered, at a fixed price per item. Apify platform usage is included in that price, so there are no compute costs on top. Errors and items that couldn't be found are free.

What you get	Price	Example
Company with founders	$0.003 each	1,000 company with founderss = $3.00
Company	$0.001 each	1,000 companys = $1.00

The Apify Free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, enough for about 1,666 company with founderss per month at no cost. You can also set a maximum spend per run.

On paid Apify plans it gets cheaper automatically: 10% off on Starter, 20% on Scale and 30% on Business.