AngelList Startup Search

Search a live startup directory for deal sourcing. Built for VCs, deal scouts, founders and AI agents.

Data source note: Wellfound (AngelList) serves a DataDome anti-bot challenge to server traffic, so this actor runs on the Y Combinator company directory (public search index) — a live, key-free startup directory with the same shape of data (name, markets, stage, team size, location, remote, website, profile URL). Records carry source: "ycombinator". If the source is blocked or unreachable, the run fails with a message saying why — it never returns a green run with no explanation, and nothing is charged.

⏰ Run this as a market watch (recommended)

Schedule a weekly sweep and catch new companies as they land:

{
  "query": "climate",
  "limit": 100
}

Weekly cron (0 8 * * 1) turns this into an always-on market watch.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per company (full output has 18 fields):

• all_locations — All locations
• industries — Industries
• is_hiring — Is hiring
• location — Location
• markets — Markets
• name — Name
• one_liner — One liner
• regions — Regions
• remote_friendly — Remote friendly
• source — Source

Pricing: $0.05 per company record (Pay-Per-Event), plus the standard $0.005 Actor start event — about 20 companies per $1. Rows are charged only when a real company record is delivered; blocked runs and empty results charge nothing.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run startup directory search for deal sourcing on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

Find startups in a market that are hiring.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

🔗 Related funding actors

Startup funding & deal-sourcing web: Startup Funding Tracker, Form D Scraper, Form D Tracker, Private Funding Intelligence, Pre-IPO Secondary Prices

Funding → outreach chain (a funding event is a lead): Company Enrichment, Email/Contact Extractor, B2B Leads Finder

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Data from public funding, filing and directory sources.