Y Combinator Companies Scraper — Batch, Industry, Hiring

Scrape every Y Combinator startup with batch, industry, region, status, hiring, team size, founders' description, website, and YC profile URL. Filter by W24/S24/X25 batches or any criteria.

What you get

• One row per YC company — over 5,000 companies, from MC07 to the latest batch
• Company name, slug, YC profile URL, external website, tagline (one-liner) and full description
• Batch, status (Active / Public / Acquired / Inactive), stage, team size
• isHiring flag — perfect for filtering active job postings
• topCompany flag — YC's curated "Top Companies" list (Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, etc.)
• Industries, sub-industry, tags, regions, and all office locations
• Founded date (ISO + Unix) and logo URL
• Direct export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets

Use cases

• Lead generation — every Fintech B2B company hiring in 2024–2025, exported to a CRM
• Investor research — track active, public, and acquired startups by batch or industry
• Competitive landscape — pull all companies in a category (AI Agents, Climate, Bio) for a market map
• Recruiting — find YC companies currently hiring in your region for outbound outreach
• News / content — auto-update a "latest YC batch" dashboard when each new batch launches
• M&A / banking — track acquired or public YC alumni for deal-flow analysis

How to use

1. Optionally enter a Search query — full-text search across name, description, and tags
2. Restrict by Batches (e.g. Winter 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2025)
3. Restrict by Industries (e.g. Fintech, Healthcare, B2B), Regions (e.g. United States of America, Europe)
4. Filter by Status (Active / Public / Acquired / Inactive), Currently hiring, Top YC company, Nonprofit
5. Restrict by Founded after / before year
6. Set Max items (default 100; 0 for no cap) and run
7. One company per row in the Dataset tab — paste into Sheets or download as CSV

Output format

{
  "ycId": 240,
  "name": "Stripe",
  "slug": "stripe",
  "ycUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe",
  "website": "http://stripe.com",
  "oneLiner": "Economic infrastructure for the internet.",
  "longDescription": "Launched out of Y Combinator's 2009 Summer batch, Stripe is a global technology company...",
  "batch": "Summer 2009",
  "status": "Active",
  "stage": "Growth",
  "teamSize": 7000,
  "isHiring": true,
  "topCompany": true,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "industry": "Fintech",
  "subindustry": "Fintech",
  "industries": ["Fintech"],
  "tags": ["Banking as a Service", "Fintech", "SaaS"],
  "regions": ["United States of America", "America / Canada"],
  "allLocations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
  "launchedAt": "2012-01-17T11:36:24.000Z",
  "launchedAtUnix": 1326790584,
  "logoUrl": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/...",
  "formerNames": []
}

Pagination

Each run fetches up to 100 results per page and pages through automatically until maxItems is reached or the result set is exhausted. For very large pulls (5,000+ companies, no filters), use the pageId cursor:

1. Open the Key-value store tab on the run page
2. Copy the value of NEXT_PAGE_ID
3. Start a new run, paste it into Page ID

When NEXT_PAGE_ID is null, you've fetched every matching company.

Input options

Field	Type	Description
Search query	string	Optional full-text search
Batches	array	Specific batches, e.g. ["Winter 2024", "Summer 2024"]
Industries	array	Specific industries, e.g. ["Fintech", "Healthcare"]
Regions	array	Specific regions, e.g. ["United States of America"]
Status	enum	Any / Active / Public / Acquired / Inactive
Currently hiring	enum	Any / Yes / No
Top YC company	enum	Any / Yes / No — YC's curated "Top Companies"
Nonprofit	enum	Any / Yes / No
Founded after	string	4-digit year, e.g. 2020
Founded before	string	4-digit year, e.g. 2024
Max items	integer	Cap per run. 0 = no cap
Page ID	string	NEXT_PAGE_ID from previous run, to resume