🚀 Y Combinator Companies Scraper

🚀 Pull 5,700+ Y Combinator-funded startups in minutes. Companies, founders, batches, industries, open jobs. No API key, no manual CSV wrangling.

Pull live company data from the Y Combinator directory, the canonical record of every YC-funded startup since the very first batch. The actor walks the YC catalog with your filter combination, paginates through results, fetches each company detail page, and returns one structured record per company ready for investor research, sales prospecting, lead-gen, or talent sourcing.

Every run fetches data live so you get the current state of the YC directory, not a stale dump. Records include logo URL, batch, batchName, growth stage, year founded, team size, location, founder names with bios, social handles, current job listings with salary and equity ranges, and a back-reference URL to the canonical YC profile.

👥 Built for	🎯 Primary use cases
Venture capital and angels	Track new YC batches as they launch
Sales and BD teams	Build prospect lists of YC-funded startups
Recruiters	Source candidates from YC company hiring pages
Founders and operators	Map competitor landscape and funding signals
Researchers and journalists	Study startup ecosystem trends across batches
BizDev and partnerships	Identify integration partners by industry

📋 What the Y Combinator Companies Scraper does

• 🎓 Filter by batch. Pass batch codes like W25, S25, X25, F25 or full names.
• 🏭 Industry filters. B2B, Consumer, Healthcare, Fintech, Industrials, Real Estate, Education, Government.
• 🔬 Sub-industries. Drill down into Payments, Drug Discovery, Engineering, Product and Design, etc.
• 🌍 Region filters. USA, Europe, Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, India, UK.
• 📊 Status and stage. Active, Public, Acquired, Inactive plus the YC growth stage.
• 💼 Hiring filter. Return only companies with open job listings.
• ⭐ Top Companies. Filter to YC's curated Top Companies list.

The scraper accepts any combination of these filters, builds the matching YC search URL, and walks the result pages. For each company it fetches the detail page to extract founders, social handles, job listings (with salary and equity ranges), and the full company description.

💡 Why it matters: the YC directory is the canonical record of YC-funded startups but its UI is paginated, JS-rendered, and lacks bulk export. A live, structured pull beats manual sourcing for VC research, BD outreach, and recruiting at scale.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: batch, batchName, companyPhotos, contactEmail, country, crunchbase, demoVideoUrl, facebook, formerNames, founders, github, id, industries, industry, isHiring, jobs, launchedAt, launches, linkedin, location, logoUrl, longDescription, name, nonprofit, oneLiner, primaryPartner, regions, scrapedAt, slug, stage, status, subindustry, tags, teamSize, topCompany, twitter, url, website, yearFounded. All 39 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: when startUrls is set, every other filter is ignored. Use it for ad-hoc enrichment of known YC companies.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Y Combinator Companies Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set filters. Pick batch, industry, region, and other filters, then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Y Combinator or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages and is intended for legitimate research, analytics, and lead-generation use. Users are responsible for compliance with the source site's Terms of Service and applicable law.

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