🚀 [Fast & Low Cost] Y Combinator Scraper

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Scrape Y Combinator startup data in seconds. Filter by batch, industry, and region, or scrape directly from a YC URL. Perfect for investors, founders, or lead generation specialists looking to scout the ecosystem.

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🧠 What It Does

This scraper collects structured data from Y Combinator startup listings, and outputs a clean, exportable dataset in CSV or JSON format — ready for analysis, automation, and CRM import.

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🔧 Inputs

• Function (required):
  Select whether you want to scrape using filters or using a URL.

• Batch (optional):
  Select from all YC batches from Summer 2005 to Spring 2025.

• Industry (optional):
  Choose the startup’s sector: B2B, Fintech, Healthcare, Education, etc.

• Region (optional):
  Target startups based in Remote, Europe, Southeast Asia, and more.

• URL (optional):
  Give a custom link including filters from the Y Combinator website.

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🛠️ How to use

Using the function input, you can pick one of two modes:

1. Extract from filters

Use dropdown filters (Batch, Industry and Region) to scrape customized results.

If no filter is selected, all companies will be scrapped (not recommended)

2. Extract from URL

Paste a Y Combinator directory URL (e.g., https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=Winter%202025&industry=B2B) to scrape results directly.

⚙️ Note: You can automatically configure a proxy (custom or Apify's) to rotate IPs and avoid blocks.

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📤 Output Format

You’ll get structured startup data like this (CSV or JSON):

{
    "company_name": "Mentra",
    "batch": "Winter 2025",
    "founded": "2024",
    "location": "San Francisco",
    "status": "Active",
    "tags": [
      "artificial-intelligence",
      "hardware",
      "consumer",
      "open-source",
      "ar",
      "San Francisco"
    ],
    "short_description": "Building the open source smart glasses operating system.",
    "long_description": "Mentra is building the open source operating system for smart glasses. The smart glasses hardware is finally ready, so we're building the OS and app store to power the next computing platform.",
    "primary_partner": "Jared Friedman",
    "founders_1": {
      "name": "Cayden Pierce",
      "role": " Founder",
      "twitter/X": "https://x.com/caydengineer",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/cayden-pierce/"
    },
    "founders_2": {
      "name": "Alexander Israelov",
      "role": " Founder",
      "twitter/X": "https://x.com/a_israelov",
      "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/in/alexanderisraelov"
    },
    "company_websites": {
      "official": "https://mentra.glass",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/mentra-labs",
      "twitter/X": "https://x.com/MentraLabs",
      "github": "https://github.com/mentralabs"
    },
    "number_of_open_jobs": 1,
    "open_jobs": [
      "Smart Glasses OS - Engineer - Wearables - iOS/AndroidTypescript Backend"
    ]
  }

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🎯 Common Use Cases

• 🔍 Search by batch, industry, and region
• 🕸️ Scrape full startup and founder profiles in bulk
• ⚡ Export clean data for deal sourcing, hiring, and analysis
• 💸 Runs fast, uses few resources
• 🔌 Seamless integration with Apify for scheduling, proxies, datasets and webhooks

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The team

• 🐐 Developed and maintained by the ScrapeGoats.

• 💬 Feel free to contact us through Discord if you are interested in custom scrapers or if you have an idea you'd like us to develop and publish.