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Y Combinator Scraper & Startup Leads API (Companies & Founders)

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Scrape all 6,270+ Y Combinator companies, 13,900+ founder LinkedIn profiles, hiring signals, and tech stacks. Fast official API, zero proxy fees, $0.003/record.

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Y Combinator Scraper & Startup Leads API | Apify OpenAPI definition

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You can download the OpenAPI definitions for Y Combinator Scraper & Startup Leads API (Companies & Founders) from the options below:

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Y Combinator Company Scraper 🧠💼 - Cheap & Fast

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Unlock the power of Y Combinator with automated company data scraping 🧠💼📊 Effortlessly collect detailed information on startups and portfolio companies from the YC platform. Customize your search queries by industry, hiring status, or region for highly targeted insights 🌍No proxy needed ⚡

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Scrape Y Combinator companies and job listings. 2,500+ startups, 2,400+ jobs, 3,300+ founders. Free dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/lazarun/y-combinator-jobs-enriched (scraped with this API).

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YC Startup & Jobs Scraper — Companies, Jobs & Founders

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Scrape YC-backed startup data from workatastartup.com. Returns company details, active jobs with salary ranges, founder LinkedIn profiles, team size and YC batch. Filter by industry, batch, remote-only and hiring status. Perfect for recruiting, sales and investor research.

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YC New Founders Tracker MCP

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Track Y Combinator batch founders with enriched LinkedIn data. Input a batch (e.g. W25) and sector, get enriched founder profiles with previous companies, funding raised, and hiring signals.