Wellfound Companies Scraper

Scrape Wellfound (formerly AngelList) startup profiles as clean structured JSON: name, tagline, full description, logo, website, Twitter / LinkedIn / Facebook / blog / Product Hunt links, company size, stage, badges ("YC Funded", "Top Investors", "Valuation $1B+"...), markets, locations, company types, hiring status, open jobs with a per-role breakdown, total raised, funding rounds with dates, founders and past founders (name, profile, role, bio, location), perks, media, the first open jobs and similar companies.

Or list Wellfound's startup directory by location or industry - optionally with every company's full profile.

Features

• Company profiles - from a Wellfound company URL or its slug (stripe, chalk-ai).
• Startup directory by location - new york, san-francisco, london, berlin...
• Startup directory by industry - saas, artificial-intelligence, e-commerce, fintech-2...
• Directory + full profiles - turn on fetchProfiles to get the full profile of every directory company in one run.
• Deep paging - up to 1000 companies per directory search; the SEARCHES record tells the total on Wellfound and the page to continue from.
• Deduplicated - a company given twice, or found in several directories, is returned and billed once (it still counts toward each directory's limit).

Use cases

• Lead generation - startups by city or industry with website, size, stage, markets and social links.
• Investor and market research - total raised, funding rounds, founders and similar companies.
• Recruiting intelligence - who is hiring, how many open jobs per role, and the perks they offer.
• CRM enrichment - add Wellfound data to a list of startups.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
companies	array	-	Wellfound company URLs or slugs.
locations	array	-	Directory locations as text or slug.
industries	array	-	Directory industry slugs.
maxResultsPerSearch	integer	10	Companies per location / industry (1-1000).
fetchProfiles	boolean	false	Fetch the full profile of every directory company.
proxyCountry	string	-	ISO-2 country to send requests from.

All three lists can be combined. A run with none of them uses two example companies.

Example input

{
  "companies": ["https://wellfound.com/company/stripe", "gustohq"],
  "locations": ["new york"],
  "industries": ["artificial-intelligence"],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 20,
  "fetchProfiles": false
}

Output

One dataset item per company. A full profile (source: "profile", shortened):

{
  "id": "37232",
  "name": "Stripe",
  "slug": "stripe",
  "url": "https://wellfound.com/company/stripe",
  "tagline": "A new, comprehensive and clean standard for online payment processing",
  "companySize": "5000+",
  "stage": "Scale Stage",
  "badges": ["Actively Hiring", "B2B", "Scale Stage", "Top Investors", "YC Funded", "Valuation $1B+"],
  "website": "https://stripe.com",
  "linkedInUrl": "http://www.linkedin.com/company/stripe",
  "markets": ["Internet", "SaaS", "Payments", "Developer APIs"],
  "locations": ["San Francisco", "New York City", "London", "Dublin"],
  "hiring": true,
  "openJobs": 133,
  "openJobsByRole": [{"role": "Engineering", "count": 67}, {"role": "Designer", "count": 7}],
  "totalRaised": 8138000000,
  "fundingRoundsCount": 15,
  "fundingRounds": [{"type": "Series I", "date": "2023-03-16", "valuation": null}],
  "founders": [{"name": "John Collison", "url": "https://wellfound.com/p/collision", "role": "Founder"}],
  "perks": [{"category": "healthcare", "title": "Inclusive coverage", "description": "..."}],
  "jobs": [{"title": "Engineering Manager, Mobile Development Productivity", "url": "https://wellfound.com/jobs/4811558-..."}],
  "jobsTotal": 133,
  "similarCompanies": [{"name": "AngelList", "slug": "angellist", "url": "https://wellfound.com/company/angellist"}],
  "source": "profile",
  "input": "stripe"
}

A directory record (source: "directory", without fetchProfiles):

{
  "name": "Gusto",
  "slug": "gustohq",
  "url": "https://wellfound.com/company/gustohq",
  "tagline": "Integrated Payroll, Benefits, HR, Tax Credits, and more",
  "companySize": "501-1000",
  "stage": "Scale Stage",
  "badges": ["Actively Hiring", "B2B", "YC Funded", "Valuation $1B+"],
  "website": "https://www.gusto.com/",
  "description": "Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams...",
  "markets": ["SaaS", "Financial Services", "Human Resources"],
  "locations": ["Denver", "New York City", "San Francisco"],
  "openJobs": 12,
  "openJobsByRole": [{"role": "Engineering", "count": 5}],
  "source": "directory",
  "search": {"location": "new york"},
  "position": 1
}

The key-value store also holds:

• SEARCHES - per location / industry: total companies on Wellfound, page count, companies listed and delivered, pages fetched and nextPage to continue from.
• ERRORS - companies, locations or industries that returned nothing (unknown slug, no directory, blocked) with the reason. These are not billed.

Pricing

$1.40 per 1000 companies - a full profile and a directory record cost the same. You pay only for companies delivered; failed inputs are not charged.

Notes

• Company profiles sit behind a bot challenge on Wellfound, so a profile can take up to about a minute; directory pages are fast.
• Industry directories use Wellfound's own slugs, and some carry a suffix (fintech-2). An unknown slug ends in ERRORS - copy the slug from a wellfound.com/startups/industry/... page.