LinkedIn Company Search — Find Companies by Industry & Size

Find companies on LinkedIn by keyword, location, industry, company size, headquarters and followers, without a LinkedIn account. Describe the companies you want ("fintech in London, 11 to 500 employees") and get one clean row per matching company: website, industry, size, employees on LinkedIn, followers, headquarters and full address, founded year, specialties, locations, similar companies and recent posts.

LinkedIn's own company search needs a login. This Actor finds companies from two public sources instead:

1. Companies hiring for your keywords in your locations, from LinkedIn's public job search. A company hiring right now is a company with budget and needs: a strong signal for sales and recruiting.
2. Look-alike companies from LinkedIn's "Similar pages" of every company that matches, which also finds companies that are not hiring.

Every candidate's public LinkedIn page is read and checked against your filters. You pay only for companies that match.

In a test search for fintech and payments companies headquartered in London with 11 to 500 employees, one run returned 60 matching companies in about 4 minutes: 21 found because they were hiring, 39 as look-alikes (lenders, payment companies, wealth apps and crypto firms), with no duplicates and no personal data.

What you can use it for

• Lead lists for B2B sales: companies in your segment, size and region, with website and LinkedIn link.
• Account-based marketing: start from a few best customers (seed companies) and collect their look-alikes.
• Recruiting and staffing: companies hiring for the roles you place, in your cities.
• Market maps: who the players are in a niche and region, with size and follower counts.
• Investor and partner sourcing: small and mid-size companies in a sector that are growing (hiring).

Quick start

Press Start with the example input (fintech companies in London with 11 to 500 employees), or give your own:

{
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity", "security engineer"],
  "locations": ["Germany"],
  "industries": ["Security", "Software"],
  "companySizes": ["51-200", "201-500"],
  "maxCompanies": 200
}

Look-alikes of your best customers:

{
  "seedCompanies": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/monzo-bank/", "revolut"],
  "industries": ["Financial"],
  "headquartersIn": ["London"],
  "maxCompanies": 100
}

Output

One row per matching company, with foundVia telling you how it was found:

{
  "foundVia": "hiring for \"fintech\" in London",
  "name": "Acme Pay",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/acme-pay/",
  "companyId": "10293847",
  "website": "https://acmepay.com",
  "domain": "acmepay.com",
  "industry": "Financial Services",
  "companySize": "51-200 employees",
  "companySizeMin": 51,
  "companySizeMax": 200,
  "employeesOnLinkedIn": 143,
  "followers": 12840,
  "headquarters": "London, England",
  "address": {"city": "London", "region": "England", "country": "GB"},
  "foundedYear": 2017,
  "specialties": ["Payments", "Open Banking", "B2B"],
  "tagline": "Payments for platforms",
  "similarPages": [{"name": "Another Fintech", "industry": "Financial Services", "location": "London", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/another-fintech/"}],
  "recentPosts": [{"postedAt": "2026-10-21T09:12:00.000Z", "text": "We're hiring ...", "reactions": 54, "comments": 3}],
  "jobsUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?f_C=10293847"
}

The same fields as LinkedIn Company Scraper: description, logo, every office location, products and affiliated pages are in the full results.

Input

Field	What it does
Keywords	What the companies do or hire for: fintech, data engineer, cybersecurity.
Locations	Where to look: city, region or country.
Seed companies	Companies like the ones you want; their look-alikes are searched.
Industry contains	LinkedIn industry words: Financial, Software, Hospitals.
Company size	LinkedIn size ranges, from 1-10 to 10,001+.
Headquarters in	City, region or country code in the headquarters or address.
Min / max followers	LinkedIn follower range.
Profile mentions	Words that must appear in the name, tagline, description, industry or specialties.
Leave out staffing agencies	On by default.
Max matching companies, Max company pages to check	Result and effort limits.
Also search look-alike companies, Look-alike steps	Follow "Similar pages" of every match (on by default). 1 step keeps results closest to your keywords; 2-3 find more.

Pricing

You pay per matching company (recent posts included), plus a tiny fee per run. Company pages that do not match your filters, pages that cannot be read and job searches are free. Apify's free plan credit covers a first test.

Tips

• Narrow filters need more checks. If a run ends with few matches, raise Max company pages to check or add more keywords and locations. The log shows why companies did not match (industry, size, headquarters ...).
• Use several keywords. "fintech", "payments", "open banking" and a few job titles like "backend engineer" find more companies than one word.
• Seed companies give the most precise look-alikes. Combine them with an industry and headquarters filter. Seeds do not have to match your filters themselves: a large company can seed a list of smaller ones.
• Pick seeds of the size you want. LinkedIn's look-alikes of a large company are mostly other large companies, so for 11-200 employee targets use seeds of that size (or keywords). Look-alike steps 2 helps a little: on-topic companies of the wrong size are used as a bridge to their look-alikes, without being returned or charged.
• Duplicates are removed. The same company under two LinkedIn page names (same company id or website) is returned once.

FAQ

Does it need a LinkedIn account or cookies? No. It reads LinkedIn's public job search and public company pages, the ones visitors who are not signed in see.

Is this LinkedIn's own company search? No, that one needs a login. This Actor builds the list from hiring companies and LinkedIn's similar pages, then checks each company against your filters. It finds active, real companies; it will not list every company that exists.

Does it return employees or people? No. Employee lists and posts written by people are skipped on purpose.

Why are some fields empty? Companies fill in their pages differently, and LinkedIn hides some numbers (like followers on a few large pages) from visitors who are not signed in. Missing fields are left out.

Some pages fail with a sign-in wall. The Actor retries from other proxy addresses. If many fail, choose the RESIDENTIAL proxy group under Advanced. Failed pages are free.

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