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Y Combinator Startups Founder Profiles & Hiring Scraper

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Scrape Y Combinator funded startups, batch cohorts, founder social profiles, company tags, team sizes, and open job roles.

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🏛️ Y Combinator Startups Founder Profiles & Hiring Scraper

Scrape Y Combinator funded startups, batch cohorts, founder social profiles, company tags, team sizes, and open job roles.

🥊 Why This Actor Beats the Competition

Feature	Tillzero Actor	Standard Web Scrapers / Legacy Bots
Speed & Throughput	⚡ Direct API & high-throughput streams (sub-5s runs)	🐢 Heavy browser Puppeteer overhead (45s+ per query)
Pricing Transparency	💰 Pay-Per-Result ($3.50 / 1k items)	💸 Expensive $49–$99/month subscriptions or compute lock-in
Data Quality & Schemas	🛡️ Strictly typed, validated ISO 8601 JSON	❌ Raw messy HTML dumps with missing columns
Bot Protection & Proxies	🌐 Built-in smart rotation and residential resilience	🚫 Frequent Cloudflare/Akamai 403 blocking

🛠️ Step-by-Step: How to Use

Method 1: Apify Web Console

Navigate to the Actor page in the Apify Store.
Configure your search parameters in the intuitive Web UI.
Click Start to run the scraper and export results to CSV, Excel, or JSON.

Method 2: Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("litezero/yc-startup-directory-scraper").call(run_input={"batch": "W25", "maxResults": 5})

dataset_items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(f"Extracted {len(dataset_items)} items!")

Method 3: Node.js SDK

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('litezero/yc-startup-directory-scraper').call({"batch": "W25", "maxResults": 5});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Extracted ${items.length} items!`);

Method 4: REST API / cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/litezero~yc-startup-directory-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"batch": "W25", "maxResults": 5}'

📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Default
`batch`	String	Filter by YC batch cohort (e.g. W25, S24, W24, or 'all').	`W25`
`industry`	String	Filter by industry (e.g. B2B, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, Healthcare).	``
`hiringOnly`	Boolean	Only return companies that currently have active open jobs.	`False`
`maxResults`	Integer	Maximum startups to return.	`100`

📤 Output Data Dictionary & Sample JSON

{
  "companyName": "NexusAI",
  "batch": "W25",
  "tagline": "Autonomous compliance agent for EU healthcare regulations",
  "description": "AI agent platform automating clinical and healthcare regulatory filing checks.",
  "website": "https://nexusai.health",
  "teamSize": 5,
  "isHiring": true,
  "industries": [
    "Artificial Intelligence",
    "Healthcare",
    "B2B"
  ],
  "founders": [
    {
      "name": "Sarah Chen",
      "role": "CEO",
      "linkedinUrl": "https://linkedin.com/in/sarahchen-ai",
      "bio": "Former DeepMind research scientist and Stanford CS alum."
    }
  ],
  "ycUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nexusai"
}

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