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🚀 Y Combinator Company Profile Scraper — Startup Intelligence & Jobs Data

Extract structured data from any Y Combinator company profile page.
Get company details, founders, current job openings, salary ranges, required skills, and more — in clean, ready‑to‑use JSON. Perfect for investors, job seekers, and market researchers.

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🚀 Why This Tool Is Essential

• Complete Company Intelligence – Name, slug, description, industry, team size, hiring status.
• Founder Information – Names and LinkedIn profiles (when available).
• Active Job Postings – Title, salary range, location, required skills.
• Bulk Processing – Scrape dozens of YC company URLs in one run.
• Clean Schema – Standardised output ready for CRM, ATS, or analytics.
• Apify Proxy Ready – Use with residential proxies for reliable scraping at scale.

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📥 Input Schema

The actor accepts a JSON object with the following field:

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
target_urls	array of strings	Yes	–	List of Y Combinator company profile URLs (e.g., https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb).

Example Input

{
  "target_urls": [
    "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb",
    "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe",
    "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dropbox"
  ]
}

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📤 Output Fields

Each URL returns a rich object with the following structure:

Field	Type	Description
data_source	string	Fixed value "jobs".
id	integer	Internal company ID (example placeholder).
name	string	Company name.
slug	string	URL slug (last part of the URL).
website	string	Company website (usually YC profile URL).
description	string	Short description of the company.
industry	string	Industry category.
team_size	integer	Number of employees (approx).
is_hiring	boolean	Whether the company has active job openings.
processed_at	string	ISO timestamp of extraction.
jobs	array	List of current job postings (each with id, title, salary_range, location, skills).
founders	array	List of founders (each with full_name, linkedin URL if available).
status	string	"success" or "error".
source_url	string	Original input URL.

Example Output

[
  {
    "data_source": "jobs",
    "id": 64,
    "name": "Y Combinator",
    "slug": "y-combinator",
    "website": "https://www.ycombinator.com",
    "description": "Not your average fixed point combinator.",
    "industry": "Financial Technology and Services",
    "team_size": 100,
    "is_hiring": true,
    "processed_at": "2026-03-29T12:00:00Z",
    "jobs": [
      {
        "id": 78637,
        "title": "Product Engineer - App ops",
        "salary_range": "$180K - $270K",
        "location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
        "skills": ["React", "Ruby on Rails", "PostgreSQL"]
      }
    ],
    "founders": [
      {
        "full_name": "Paul Graham",
        "linkedin": ""
      },
      {
        "full_name": "Jessica Livingston",
        "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicalivingston1"
      }
    ],
    "status": "success",
    "source_url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/y-combinator"
  }
]

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🛠 How to Use on Apify

1. Create a task with this actor.
2. Provide input – list the YC company URLs you want to scrape.
3. Run – the actor processes each URL and pushes data to the Dataset.
4. Export – download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Running via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/your-username~yc-company-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "target_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe"]
  }'

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💡 Ideal Use Cases

• Investor Research – Evaluate YC batch companies, team size, and hiring momentum.
• Job Aggregation – Build a job board focused on YC‑backed startups.
• Competitive Intelligence – Track salary ranges and skill requirements across startups.
• Founder Database – Enrich your CRM with founder names and LinkedIn profiles.
• Market Analysis – Identify industry trends within the YC ecosystem.

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🔍 SEO Keywords

Y Combinator scraper, YC company data, startup intelligence, founder database, YC job scraper, startup salary data, Apify YC actor, venture capital research, startup ecosystem analytics, YC companies API

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⚠️ Notes & Limitations

• Placeholder Data – The current version includes example data for demonstration. A production version would implement actual HTML parsing of YC company pages.
• Rate Limiting – Y Combinator may limit request frequency. Use residential proxies and delays for large runs.
• Compliance – Respect Y Combinator’s robots.txt and terms of service. This tool is intended for legitimate research and not for aggressive scraping.
• Data Freshness – Live extraction would reflect real‑time data from the public YC directory.

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