Y Combinator Scraper with Founders & Emails

Y Combinator Scraper with Founders & Emails 🟠

Y Combinator Scraper collects the complete YC company directory — company names, descriptions, websites, batches, industries, team sizes, locations, open jobs, news, and the founders behind each startup, including their contact details. Whether you are selling to startups, recruiting, investing, or researching the ecosystem, this Y Combinator Scraper gathers everything in one run.

No coding needed. Choose your filters, press Run, and download a clean spreadsheet. With email discovery switched on, the Y Combinator Scraper doubles as a practical Y Combinator email scraper for outreach teams.

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🚀 Why Choose This Y Combinator Scraper?

Feature	What It Means for You
✅ The Whole Directory	Covers the full Y Combinator company directory, not just the latest batch
✅ Founders Included	The YC founders scraper returns every founder with their title, bio, LinkedIn, and X/Twitter
✅ Contact Discovery	A built-in founder email finder works out likely email addresses for each founder
✅ Rich Filtering	Narrow by batch, industry, region, team size, hiring status, top companies, and nonprofits
✅ Jobs and News	Every company can bring its open roles and recent press coverage along with it
✅ Spreadsheet-Ready	Well-labelled columns let you export Y Combinator data to CSV, Excel, or JSON instantly

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🔑 Key Features of the Y Combinator Scraper

• 🔎 Keyword Search — enter product categories, markets, or technologies and the YC scraper runs each as its own search
• 🎓 Batch Filtering — pick specific batches such as W25 or S24, or leave it open to collect every batch ever
• 🏭 Industry Filtering — narrow to fintech, healthcare, developer tools, or any other YC industry
• 🌍 Region Filtering — focus on companies in a particular part of the world
• 👥 Team Size Range — set a minimum and maximum headcount to find companies at the stage you care about
• 💼 Hiring Filter — keep only companies currently recruiting, which is gold for startup lead generation
• ⭐ Top Companies Only — restrict results to the startups YC itself highlights as standouts
• 🤝 Nonprofit Filter — isolate YC's nonprofit organisations when that is your focus
• 🧑‍💼 Founder Profiles — the YC founders scraper adds names, roles, biographies, avatars, and social links
• 📧 Email Discovery — turn on the founder email finder to work out reachable addresses from each company's own domain
• 🎚️ Confidence Control — keep only confidently matched addresses, or include less certain ones too
• 💼 Open Roles — job titles, employment type, location, remote status, and salary ranges where published
• 📰 Company News — recent headlines, sources, dates, and links for each startup
• 🔗 Social Links — LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, and Crunchbase links where available
• ✅ Quality Flags — each row tells you which details were missing, so you know what to trust
• 🗂️ Whole-Directory Access — with no filters at all, the YC scraper simply works through the Y Combinator company directory from end to end
• 🔁 Repeatable Runs — save your settings and scrape YC companies again each time a new batch is announced

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📝 Input

Everything can be set up with the simple form in the Apify Console. If you prefer to enter settings directly, this is what a full configuration looks like:

{
  "queries": ["developer tools", "climate"],
  "batches": ["W25", "S24"],
  "industries": ["B2B", "Fintech"],
  "regions": ["America / Canada"],
  "minEmployeeSize": "10",
  "maxEmployeeSize": "50",
  "topCompanies": false,
  "isHiring": true,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "get_founders": true,
  "getEmails": true,
  "includeRiskyEmails": false,
  "smtpVerify": false,
  "limit": 200
}

Input Settings

Setting	Type	Default	What It Does
queries	list	—	Keywords such as a product category, market, technology, or location. Each one runs its own search, so more keywords widen your coverage.
batches	list	—	Limit results to specific YC batches. Leave empty to include every batch.
industries	list	—	Limit results to chosen YC industries. Leave empty to include all of them.
regions	list	—	Limit results to companies based in chosen regions.
minEmployeeSize	text	—	Only include companies with at least this many people.
maxEmployeeSize	text	—	Only include companies with at most this many people.
topCompanies	yes/no	—	Keep only the companies YC flags as top companies.
isHiring	yes/no	—	Keep only companies currently hiring.
nonprofit	yes/no	—	Keep only nonprofit organisations.
get_founders	yes/no	true	Include founder details, open jobs, and news for each company.
getEmails	yes/no	true	Switch on the founder email finder to work out likely addresses.
includeRiskyEmails	yes/no	true	Keep addresses that could not be positively confirmed. Turn this off to keep only confirmed ones.
smtpVerify	yes/no	false	An advanced live-verification option that does not work on the Apify platform. Leave it off — addresses are marked unconfirmed instead.
limit	number	—	The most companies to save for each search path.
proxyConfiguration	object	—	Optional connection settings for larger runs. The default suits most people.

💡 Tip: broad directory searches are split internally by batch and industry, so a large limit still returns a well-spread sample rather than only the alphabetically first companies.

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📦 Output

The Y Combinator Scraper writes one row per company, with its founders, jobs, and news attached. The layout is identical every time, so you can filter, sort, and export Y Combinator data to CSV without cleanup. Here is one company row:

[
  {
    "type": "company",
    "id": 28471,
    "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gridwise-labs",
    "name": "Gridwise Labs",
    "one_liner": "Forecasting software for renewable energy grids",
    "description": "Gridwise Labs helps utilities predict supply and demand across renewable-heavy grids...",
    "website": "https://gridwiselabs.com",
    "status": "Active",
    "is_hiring": true,
    "company_details": {
      "team_size": 24,
      "stage": "Early",
      "industry": "B2B",
      "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design",
      "yc_batch": "W25",
      "is_top_company": false,
      "is_nonprofit": false,
      "tags": ["Climate", "Machine Learning", "Energy"]
    },
    "location": {
      "city": "San Francisco",
      "country": "US",
      "regions": ["America / Canada"],
      "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA"
    },
    "links": {
      "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gridwise-labs",
      "twitter_url": "https://x.com/gridwiselabs",
      "github_url": "https://github.com/gridwiselabs",
      "crunchbase_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gridwise-labs"
    },
    "founders": [
      {
        "name": "Priya Raman",
        "title": "Co-founder & CEO",
        "bio": "Previously led grid forecasting at a national utility.",
        "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyaraman",
        "twitter_url": "https://x.com/priyaraman",
        "email_available": true,
        "email": "priya@gridwiselabs.com",
        "email_status": "verified",
        "avatar_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/avatars/priya.jpg"
      }
    ],
    "jobs": [
      {
        "title": "Senior Backend Engineer",
        "role": "Engineering",
        "employment_type": "fulltime",
        "location": "San Francisco, CA",
        "is_remote": false,
        "salary_range": "$180K - $220K"
      }
    ],
    "news": [
      {
        "headline": "Gridwise Labs raises seed round to forecast renewable supply",
        "source": "TechCrunch",
        "publication_date": "2026-02-18",
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/gridwise-labs-seed"
      }
    ],
    "data_quality": { "completeness_flags": [] }
  }
]

Company Columns

Column	Type	What It Contains
type	text	Always company
id	number	YC's own identifier for the company
url	text	Link to the company's YC directory page
name	text	The company name
one_liner	text	The short pitch shown in the directory
description	text	The full company description
website	text	The company's own website
status	text	Whether the company is active, acquired, or inactive
is_hiring	yes/no	Whether it is currently recruiting
company_details.team_size	number	How many people work there
company_details.stage	text	The company's stage, such as Early or Growth
company_details.industry	text	Its main industry
company_details.subindustry	text	A more specific classification
company_details.yc_batch	text	The batch it went through, such as W25
company_details.is_top_company	yes/no	Whether YC highlights it as a standout
company_details.is_nonprofit	yes/no	Whether it is a nonprofit
company_details.tags	list	Topic tags describing what it does
location.city / country	text	Where the company is based
location.regions	list	The broader regions it operates in
links	object	LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, and Crunchbase links
founders	list	Every founder, with the details in the next table
jobs	list	Open roles, each with title, type, location, remote status, and salary range
news	list	Recent headlines with source, date, and link
source_context	object	Which search produced this row, and when it was collected
data_quality.completeness_flags	list	Notes on anything missing, e.g. missing website

Founder Columns

Column	Type	What It Contains
name	text	The founder's full name
title	text	Their role, e.g. Co-founder & CEO
bio	text	Their background, as published on YC
linkedin_url	text	Their LinkedIn profile
twitter_url	text	Their X/Twitter profile
email_available	yes/no	Whether an address was found for this person
email	text	The address itself, when one was found
email_status	text	verified for confirmed addresses, or risky when it could not be confirmed
avatar_url	text	Their profile photo

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🚀 How to Use the Y Combinator Scraper (Step by Step)

1. Sign in — go to console.apify.com and open the Actors tab.
2. Open the actor — search for Y Combinator Scraper and click its card.
3. Add keywords — enter product categories or markets, or leave this empty to browse the whole directory.
4. Narrow your search — choose batches, industries, regions, and a team size range.
5. Add quick filters — switch on hiring, top companies, or nonprofits if they match your goal.
6. Include the people — leave founder details on to get names, bios, and social profiles.
7. Find emails — switch on email discovery, and decide whether unconfirmed addresses are useful to you.
8. Set your size — choose how many companies to save. Start small to review the output, then scale up.
9. Press Run and download — open the OUTPUT tab and save as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, or RSS.

No coding required — the Y Combinator Scraper gives you a complete dataset in minutes.

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🎯 What Makes This Y Combinator Scraper Different

• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 People, Not Just Logos — most directory tools stop at the company name; this Y Combinator Scraper connects each startup to its actual founders
• 📧 Honest Email Labelling — every address carries a status, so you always know which ones were confirmed and which were a best guess
• 🧭 Genuinely Broad Coverage — large searches are split behind the scenes by batch and industry, so you get a spread across the whole directory rather than a narrow slice
• 💼 Hiring Signals Built In — open roles arrive with each company, so you can see who is growing and in which functions
• 📰 Press Included — recent news gives you a conversation starter and a sense of momentum before you reach out
• ✅ Transparent Gaps — quality flags tell you exactly what was missing on each row instead of leaving you guessing
• 🎛️ Filters That Combine — batch, industry, region, size, and hiring status all stack together to produce a tightly targeted list
• 📚 One Source, Many Views — the same run yields YC startup data, YC batch data, hiring signals, and press coverage together, instead of forcing separate lookups

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💡 Best Use Cases for the Y Combinator Scraper

• 🤝 Sales Prospecting — build a startup lead generation list of funded companies that match your ideal customer, with founder contacts attached
• 💼 Investor Sourcing — track every new batch and spot companies in your thesis as soon as they are listed
• 🎯 Recruiting — the hiring filter surfaces companies actively growing, and the jobs data shows exactly which roles they need
• 📊 Ecosystem Research — analyse YC startup data by industry and region to see where funding and attention are heading
• 🎓 Batch Analysis — compare YC batch data across years to track how cohort composition shifts over time
• 🔍 Competitive Intelligence — find every YC company operating in your space and study how they position themselves
• 📰 Media and Newsletters — scrape YC companies to build accurate, up-to-date roundups for your readers
• 🤝 Partnership Development — identify complementary startups and reach the right founder directly, using the Y Combinator Scraper as a Y Combinator email scraper for warm introductions
• 🏫 Accelerator Benchmarking — study the Y Combinator company directory to see how YC cohorts compare with other programmes
• 📥 CRM and Dashboards — export Y Combinator data to CSV and load it straight into your CRM or reporting tool

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🔧 Good to Know

A few practical notes before you run the Y Combinator Scraper:

• What you can start from
  • Keywords, or no keywords at all if you want to browse the directory by filters alone
• Filters available
  • Batch, industry, region, team size, hiring status, top companies, and nonprofits
• Download formats
  • CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, and RSS
• Please note
  • ❌ Live email verification does not work on the Apify platform — leave that option off, and addresses come back marked as unconfirmed
  • ❌ Addresses can only be worked out when a company has a usable website, so some founders will come back empty
  • ❌ Private or unlisted founder details are never collected
  • ℹ️ Founder, job, and news details require the founder option to be switched on, which makes runs take longer
  • ℹ️ Email discovery adds extra time, so allow a little longer when it is enabled

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🤝 Support & Feature Requests

Need a hand, or have an idea for the Y Combinator Scraper?

• 💡 Feature Requests — want alumni tracking, funding-round data, or scheduled runs for each new batch? Just ask.
• 📧 Contact — email us at scrapershub@gmail.com.

Your feedback shapes what we build next and helps keep this the most complete Y Combinator Scraper on the Apify Store.

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Start today with the most complete Y Combinator Scraper available — companies, founders, jobs, and contact details in one run.

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Disclaimer

This Y Combinator Scraper collects information only from publicly available sources. It does not access private profiles, internal YC systems, or any password-protected content. Email addresses are worked out from public company domains and published information. You are responsible for following applicable data privacy and anti-spam laws, including GDPR and CAN-SPAM, and for respecting Y Combinator's terms of service.

For data removal requests, please contact scrapershub@gmail.com. Always use these tools responsibly, ethically, and for legitimate purposes only.