Y Combinator Scraper — Companies, Founders & Jobs

What is Y Combinator Scraper?

Y Combinator Scraper returns one record per company or job from YC's public company directory and jobs board. Company records have the name, batch, one-liner, description, website, team size, founding year, location, industries, stage, hiring status, social links and the YC page, plus founders and open jobs when you ask for them. Job rows have the title, role, location, job type, experience, visa, skills and the company behind it. Investors, sales teams, recruiters, job seekers and AI agents use it to research startups by batch, industry or region, with no YC account.

Why investors and sales teams use it

• Filter like the YC directory. Batch, industry, region, team size, Top Companies, hiring and nonprofit filters.
• Founders in the same row. scrapeFounders adds each founder's name, title, bio and LinkedIn.
• Open roles on demand. scrapeOpenJobs adds each company's jobs; jobs mode searches the whole YC jobs board.
• Paste any YC link. Company pages, filtered directory links and jobs links all work in startUrls.
• Only new companies. monitoringMode returns just the companies and jobs you have not seen before.

How to use it

Every B2B company from one batch that is hiring, with founders and jobs:

{
  "mode": "companies",
  "batches": ["Spring 2026"],
  "industries": ["B2B"],
  "isHiring": true,
  "scrapeFounders": true,
  "scrapeOpenJobs": true,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Remote engineering jobs at YC companies:

{
  "mode": "jobs",
  "jobRole": "eng",
  "jobLocation": "remote",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Input	What it controls
mode	companies (directory) or jobs (jobs board)
startUrls	Any YC company, directory or jobs link
query	Keyword across names, one-liners and descriptions, or job titles
batches, industries, regions	Directory filters, such as Spring 2026, B2B, Germany
topCompany, isHiring, nonprofit, minTeamSize, maxTeamSize	More directory filters
jobRole, jobLocation	Jobs-mode filters, such as eng and remote
scrapeFounders, scrapeOpenJobs, scrapeNewsAndLaunches, scrapeJobDescriptions	Extra detail per company or job
maxResults	Records to return (default 100)
monitoringMode	Return only records not seen in earlier runs

Want contact details for the companies you found? Continue with Bulk Website Contact Extractor linked below.

Output: Y Combinator data you receive

A real company row from Spring 2026 (founder name and bio replaced with examples, links and lists shortened):

{
  "itemType": "company",
  "id": 31540,
  "slug": "kugelaudio",
  "name": "KugelAudio",
  "batch": "P26",
  "batchName": "Spring 2026",
  "status": "Active",
  "oneLiner": "Kugel is an on-prem Voice AI model supporting 30+ languages",
  "website": "https://kugelaudio.com/en",
  "teamSize": 4,
  "yearFounded": 2025,
  "location": "Berlin, Germany",
  "country": "DE",
  "industries": ["B2B"],
  "regions": ["Germany"],
  "stage": "Early",
  "isHiring": true,
  "linkedinUrl": "https://de.linkedin.com/company/kugelaudio",
  "twitterUrl": "https://x.com/KugelAudio",
  "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kugelaudio",
  "ycUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kugelaudio",
  "founders": [
    { "fullName": "Alex Example", "title": "Founder", "founderBio": "Builds text-to-speech models for customer support...", "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-example" }
  ]
}

A real job row from jobs mode:

{
  "itemType": "job",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/webflow/jobs/f6mP23DLZ-senior-software-engineer",
  "location": "San Francisco, CA or Remote (US Only) / Remote",
  "jobType": "Full-time",
  "prettyRole": "Engineering",
  "roleSpecificType": "Backend",
  "minExperience": "3+ years",
  "visa": "Will sponsor",
  "skills": ["Node.js", "JavaScript", "MongoDB", "Docker"],
  "companyName": "Webflow",
  "companyBatch": "S13"
}

Field	What it contains
name, slug, batch, batchName, status, ycUrl	The company and its YC batch
oneLiner, longDescription, website	What it does and where to find it
teamSize, yearFounded, location, country, regions	Size, age and location
industries, stage, topCompany, isHiring, nonprofit	Directory labels
linkedinUrl, twitterUrl, crunchbaseUrl	Company profiles elsewhere
founders	Name, title, bio and LinkedIn per founder (with scrapeFounders)
openJobs, newsItems, launches	Open roles, news and YC Launch posts (with the matching options)
title, jobUrl, location, jobType, prettyRole, minExperience, visa, skills	Job details in jobs mode
salaryRange, equityRange	Pay and equity when the company lists them

Example workflow: a seed investor's batch review

An angel investor reviews each new batch. They use companies mode with the new batch in batches, scrapeFounders on, and minTeamSize at 2. They sort by industries to match their thesis, read oneLiner and founders[].founderBio to shortlist, and open each ycUrl before Demo Day. Then they collect emails from the shortlisted website values with Bulk Website Contact Extractor.

Pricing

This Actor uses Pay per event. Apify platform usage is included in the event price. You pay one event per company or job returned, a small extra event per founder or open job added to a company, and a start event per run. The live Pricing tab on this page shows the current prices.

• 100 companies without founders = 100 result events.
• 100 companies with founders = 100 result events + one small event per founder.
• maxResults caps each run, so it doubles as a cost ceiling.

Startup research with AI agents (MCP)

Connect this Actor to an AI agent through Apify MCP and ask in plain language:

List the fintech companies from YC's last two batches that are hiring, with their founders and a one-line summary.

Agent checklist:

1. Use mode: "companies" with batches, industries or regions; use mode: "jobs" for job questions.
2. Turn on scrapeFounders or scrapeOpenJobs only when the user asks for founders or roles.
3. Keep maxResults close to the request; read rows with get-dataset-items.
4. Share ycUrl or jobUrl so the user can open each record.

API example

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/khadinakbar~ycombinator-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "companies", "query": "developer tools", "isHiring": true, "maxResults": 25}'

Related startup research tools from the same developer

Your next step	Use	Why
When you then want company emails and phones	Bulk Website Contact Extractor	Contacts from company websites
When you want the LinkedIn company page	LinkedIn Company Finder from Website	Website to LinkedIn page
When you look at startup jobs beyond YC	Wellfound Jobs Scraper	Startup jobs with salary and equity
When you research the people behind a company	LinkedIn Company Search Scraper	Company pages by keyword and location

Best results

Starting situation	Helpful action	Expected outcome
Tracking each new batch	Schedule a task with monitoringMode on	Only newly listed companies each run
Building a sales list	Combine industries, regions and isHiring	Growing companies in your market
Recruiting or job hunting	Use jobs mode with jobRole and jobLocation	Matching roles across all YC companies
A filtered view from the YC site	Paste the directory link into startUrls	The same set of companies

Builder's note

I found that most people browsing the YC directory want to know who the founders are and whether the company is hiring, so scrapeFounders and scrapeOpenJobs add both to the company row. I learned that many users check new batches every week, so monitoringMode keeps a memory of what each task has already returned.

FAQ

Do I need a YC or Work at a Startup account?

No. The Actor reads YC's public directory and jobs pages.

How do I pick a batch?

Use the batch name as YC shows it, such as Spring 2026, Winter 2026 or Summer 2025.

Why are salaryRange and equityRange empty on some jobs?

Companies choose whether to list pay and equity. When they do, the fields are filled.

Can I get every YC company?

Yes. Leave the filters empty and raise maxResults; the directory is paged automatically.

What does monitoringMode do?

It remembers the companies and jobs returned in earlier runs of the same task, so each run returns only new ones.

Responsible use

This Actor collects public information from Y Combinator's directory and jobs board, which includes founders' names and public profiles. Use it with a lawful basis, respect people's privacy in outreach, and follow Y Combinator's terms. Read Apify's guide on whether web scraping is legal for more context. Y Combinator is a trademark of Y Combinator Management, LLC. This independent Actor is not affiliated with, associated with, or endorsed by Y Combinator. For questions or bugs, open a ticket in the Issues tab.