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Y Combinator Companies & Founders Scraper

Y Combinator Companies & Founders Scraper

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Y Combinator company directory scraper — batch, industry, hiring status, one-liner, description and founder names/titles/LinkedIn/Twitter for every YC-funded startup, one row per company.

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What is Y Combinator Companies & Founders Scraper?

Y Combinator Companies & Founders Scraper is an Apify Actor that reads Y Combinator's public startup directory at ycombinator.com/companies and returns one clean row per company — batch, status, industries, team size, hiring status, one-liner, description and, optionally, founder name, title, LinkedIn and Twitter/X. It reads the same public search index the directory page itself queries (with YC’s public api.ycombinator.com feed as a fallback), so there is no browser, no anti-bot wall and no API key required, and it can return the whole directory (6,000+ companies), newest launches first. Founder details come from the server-rendered JSON embedded in each company's own profile page. Try it with the default input to pull the 200 most recently launched YC companies, or filter by batch (W25, S25, F26…), industry, status or hiring status.

Why use Y Combinator Companies & Founders Scraper?

YC has funded over 5,000 startups, and its directory is one of the highest-signal sources of pre-seed and seed-stage company data on the internet — every listed company has passed YC's selection process and has real founders behind it. Buyers of this data include:

  • VCs and angel investors sourcing deal flow by batch or industry before a demo day.
  • Recruiters and talent scouts targeting companies that are actively hiring.
  • B2B sales and lead-gen teams building prospect lists of well-funded, fast-growing startups.
  • Market researchers tracking which industries and sectors YC is funding batch over batch.

Because founders are extracted with their name, title, LinkedIn and Twitter/X handle, this Actor doubles as a founder-contact-discovery tool — no manual profile-by-profile browsing needed.

How to use Y Combinator Companies & Founders Scraper

  1. Click Start with the default input to fetch the 200 newest companies with founders included, or
  2. Fill in Batches (e.g. W25), Industries (e.g. B2B), Company statuses and/or turn on Is hiring to narrow the list.
  3. Set Max companies to the number of rows you need (up to 10,000).
  4. Leave Include founders on to get founder name/title/LinkedIn/Twitter per company, or turn it off for a faster, founder-free run.
  5. Click Start, then export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Example input

{
    "batches": ["W25"],
    "industries": ["B2B"],
    "isHiring": true,
    "maxCompanies": 50,
    "includeFounders": true
}

Example output

{
    "id": 30365,
    "name": "Mentra",
    "slug": "mentra",
    "ycUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mentra",
    "website": "https://mentra.glass",
    "oneLiner": "Building the open source smart glasses operating system.",
    "batch": "W25",
    "status": "Active",
    "industries": ["Consumer", "Virtual and Augmented Reality"],
    "teamSize": 12,
    "isHiring": true,
    "founders": [
        { "name": "Cayden Pierce", "title": "Founder/CEO", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/cayden-pierce/", "twitter": "https://x.com/caydengineer" }
    ],
    "founderCount": 2,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-12T18:29:20.320Z"
}

Data table

FieldTypeDescription
id, name, slug, ycUrl, website, logoUrlnumber, stringIdentity fields and links
oneLiner, descriptionstringShort pitch and long description (truncated to 2,000 characters)
batch, statusstringYC batch code (e.g. W25) and Active/Acquired/Public/Inactive
industries, tags, locations, regionsarrayIndustry tags, free-form tags, self-reported offices and region groupings
teamSizenumberSelf-reported headcount
launchedAtstring or nullWhen the company launched on YC (ISO 8601)
isHiringboolean or nullWhether the company lists open jobs on YC
founders, founderCountarray, number{name, title, linkedin, twitter} per founder, from the company's own profile page
errorstring or nullSet only if founder enrichment failed for this row; all listing fields are still populated
scrapedAtstringISO 8601 timestamp of the run

Pricing

Y Combinator Companies & Founders Scraper is pay-per-event at $0.002 per company row. Scraping 1,000 companies with founders costs $2, well below the cost of hiring someone to browse the directory manually or building your own scraper against an undocumented API.

Y Combinator Companies & Founders Scraper vs. manual directory browsing

The YC directory's website only shows 20 companies per page with no bulk export, and founder contact details require opening each profile individually. This Actor pulls thousands of rows in minutes, runs on a schedule, and outputs structured JSON/CSV ready for your CRM, spreadsheet or BI tool — instead of hours of copy-paste.

Using Y Combinator Companies & Founders Scraper with AI agents / MCP

This Actor is built pay-per-event with limited permissions, so it is directly callable by AI agents through the Apify MCP server or the search-actors/call-actor tools. Ask an agent to "find YC W25 companies hiring in B2B with founder LinkedIn URLs" and it can call this Actor with the matching input and read the results straight from the dataset.

FAQ

Is this legal? The Actor reads only YC's own public directory data (the search index behind ycombinator.com/companies and api.ycombinator.com) and the public HTML of company profile pages — the same data anyone can see by visiting ycombinator.com/companies while logged out. No login, scraping of private Bookface data, or circumvention of access controls is involved.

Does this include founder emails? No — only publicly listed name, title, LinkedIn and Twitter/X, exactly as shown on the company's own YC profile page.

Integrations: Pipe the dataset into Google Sheets, Airtable, HubSpot or Salesforce via Apify's built-in integrations, or connect it to n8n/Make/Zapier for automated lead-list building.

Something not working? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — YC occasionally reshapes its page markup, and a broken founder parser is usually a quick fix.

Part of the webdatatools web-intelligence suite — every Actor is pay-per-event, reads public data without a login, and returns one clean row per entity:

Browse the whole suite at webdatatools, or call ten of these Actors straight from Claude, Cursor or Cline with the webdatatools MCP server.

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Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's Apify Store page — custom scraping and data-enrichment work is also available on request.

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