Y Combinator Companies Scraper with Founders and Batch Filters

What does Y Combinator Companies Scraper do?

It returns companies from the public Y Combinator directory (ycombinator.com/companies): name, batch, status, team size, industry, one liner, website, location, tags, hiring flag and more. Turn on includeFounders to also get each company's founders with titles, LinkedIn and Twitter links. Filter by keyword, batch, industry, status or hiring so you only pay for the companies you want. Pricing is per result.

Data source

The directory's own public search index, the same one the YC companies page queries for every visitor, so the data is as fresh as the website (about 6,000 companies).

Why use it?

• Build lead lists of startups by batch, industry or location, for sales, recruiting or investor outreach.
• Track new YC batches and see which companies are hiring.
• Research a market: every YC company tagged with a keyword like "insurance" or "climate".
• Replaces copying rows from the website by hand.

How to use it

1. Open the Actor and set the filters.
2. Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.
3. Add a Schedule and an Integration (Slack, Google Sheets, webhook) to get new records automatically.

Input

Field	Description
search	Free text matched against name, description, tags and location.
batches	Batch names such as Winter 2025 or Summer 2023. Empty means all batches.
industries	Top level industry: B2B, Consumer, Fintech, Healthcare, Industrials, and so on.
statuses	Active, Inactive, Acquired or Public.
hiringOnly	Only companies with open jobs.
includeFounders	Adds founders and company social links by visiting each company page. Slower.
maxResults	Hard stop for the run. You are billed per result, so this caps the cost.
proxyConfiguration	Apify proxy is recommended for larger runs.

Example input:

{ "batches": ["Winter 2025"], "industries": ["Fintech"], "includeFounders": true, "maxResults": 50 }

Output

Every record has the same shape (trimmed example):

{
  "id": "yc:30357",
  "name": "Vantel",
  "batch": "Winter 2025",
  "status": "Active",
  "teamSize": 5,
  "industry": "Fintech",
  "subindustry": "Fintech -> Insurance",
  "oneLiner": "AI Platform for Commercial Insurance Brokerages",
  "website": "https://vantel.com/",
  "location": "Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden",
  "stage": "Early",
  "isHiring": false,
  "tags": ["Documents", "Insurance", "CRM"],
  "ycUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vantel",
  "founders": [
    { "name": "Love Redin", "title": "Founder/CEO", "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/love-redin/", "twitterUrl": "https://x.com/redinvantel" }
  ],
  "yearFounded": 2024
}

Field	Meaning
id	Stable key, safe for deduplication between runs
batch, status, stage	YC batch, company status, funding stage
teamSize, industry, subindustry, tags, regions	Size and classification
website, location, ycUrl	Where to find the company
isHiring, topCompany, nonprofit	YC flags
founders, yearFounded, social links	Only with includeFounders

Pricing

Pay per event: a small fee when a run starts, then a fixed price per result returned. You only pay for records that pass your filters. Set maxResults to cap any run.

Limitations

• Only information YC publishes on its public directory. Founder emails and phone numbers are not available.
• Founders are fetched from each company page, so runs with includeFounders are slower.
• Some older companies have no founder list or team size.

FAQ

Is this legal? The Actor reads listings the site publishes for any visitor without a login and stores only business information published for that purpose. You are responsible for how you use the data.

Something is missing or broken? Open an issue in the Issues tab; response time is usually under a day.