Y Combinator Scraper — Companies, Founders & Jobs

Extract the entire Y Combinator startup directory as clean, structured data: every company across every batch, their founders with LinkedIn & Twitter, and live job postings with salary and equity ranges.

Built for B2B prospecting, tech recruiting, VC/startup research and lead generation — find and reach the people behind YC-funded companies.

The actor reads only public, official YC data (the YC company directory and public company profile pages), so it needs no login, no API key and no proxy, and it stays reliable run after run.

What you can scrape

Mode	One row per	Best for
Companies	Company	Market research, building a YC company list, B2B prospecting
Founders	Founder	Recruiting, founder outreach, lead lists (name, title, LinkedIn, Twitter)
Jobs	Open role	Candidate sourcing, job boards, hiring-signal monitoring
Company details	Company (deep)	Full profile + founders + jobs for a specific list of companies

Filters

Narrow the directory down to exactly the segment you want:

• Search text — match name, one-liner, description and tags
• Batch — Winter 2024 or short code W24 / S23 / F24 / SP25
• Status — Active, Acquired, Public, Inactive
• Industry — Fintech, Healthcare, B2B, …
• Tag — Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Developer Tools, …
• Region — United States of America, Europe, Remote, …
• Only hiring / Only top companies

Example: all Active Fintech companies from Winter 2024 that are hiring → set status=Active, industry=Fintech, batch=W24, isHiring=true.

Example output

Founders mode

{
  "fullName": "Brian Chesky",
  "title": "Founder/CEO",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianchesky",
  "twitterUrl": "https://twitter.com/bchesky",
  "hasEmail": true,
  "companyName": "Airbnb",
  "companySlug": "airbnb",
  "batch": "Winter 2009",
  "companyWebsite": "https://airbnb.com"
}

Jobs mode

{
  "title": "Full-Stack Robotics Engineer",
  "role": "Engineering",
  "type": "Full-time",
  "location": "Deerfield, MA, US / Remote (US)",
  "salaryRange": "$140K - $250K",
  "equityRange": "0.10% - 0.40%",
  "skills": ["React", "Node.js"],
  "applyUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/circuithub/jobs/...",
  "companyName": "CircuitHub",
  "batch": "Winter 2012"
}

A note on founder emails

YC keeps founder email addresses behind a logged-in account and does not expose them publicly. This scraper does not fabricate or guess emails. Instead it gives you what is reliable and verifiable: each founder's name, title, bio, LinkedIn and Twitter, plus a hasEmail flag indicating whether YC holds an email on file. LinkedIn is the most dependable outreach channel for founders anyway.

How it works

1. The company directory is read from the public, daily-updated YC data mirror (sourced from YC's own search index).
2. For founders, jobs and social links, the actor reads each company's public profile page on ycombinator.com.

No credentials are required and the actor degrades gracefully — if a single profile is unavailable, it is skipped and the run continues.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing: you pay only for the rows you actually get.

Disclaimer

This actor collects publicly available information only. Y Combinator is a trademark of its respective owner; this actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Y Combinator. Use the data in compliance with applicable laws and the platforms' terms.