# Y Combinator companies scraper with founders and jobs > YC companies scraper for the Y Combinator directory. Filter by batch, industry and region. Get founders, LinkedIn and X links, jobs and team size. URL: https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/y-combinator-companies/ Category: Leads, companies & validation · Status: live on Apify Store · Apify page: https://apify.com/cliqtomedia/y-combinator-companies?fpr=cliqto Pick a YC batch, industry or region. You get one row per startup with team size, website, founders and open jobs. Only new mode shows companies added since your last run. ## How to use it: 3 steps 1. **Make a free Apify account.** Apify is the cloud platform where our tools run. The free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. You pay Apify, not us. 2. **Paste your input and press Start.** No code needed: you fill in a form (the input). It already has a working example. For example: `W24` in Batches. Each start is one run. 3. **Download the results.** When the run ends, the results are in a table (the dataset). Open Output, press Export and pick Excel or CSV. JSON and the API are there too. ## What it does Scrape the public Y Combinator company directory (ycombinator.com/companies) and get one clean row per YC startup: batch, status, industry, location, team size, website, founders with LinkedIn and X links, open jobs and the YC partner. No login, no cookies and no API key. - Search the directory (`mode: "search"`, default): keep the companies that match your filters, newest batches first. - Look up specific companies (`mode: "companies"`): give up to 1000 company slugs or YC URLs and get one row for each. ### Good for - Build a lead list of YC startups from one batch, industry or region. - Find founders of YC companies and their public LinkedIn and X profiles. - Find YC startups that are hiring now, with job titles, salary and equity ranges as listed on YC. - Get only the companies added since your last run (for a weekly or daily schedule). ### Not a good fit - No emails or phone numbers. The Actor never returns founder emails or phone numbers, and it removes them from descriptions and bios. - Only public data from ycombinator.com. No Bookface, no private YC data, no funding amounts or valuations. - The Actor does not visit company websites, LinkedIn or X. Links are copied as YC shows them. - Data is as fresh as the YC directory at run time. Team size, status and jobs are what founders reported to YC; they can be out of date. ## Price Pay per event. Apify bills you, not us. | What you pay for | Price | When | |---|---|---| | Start fee | $0.003 | Charged once per run. This tool uses 1 GB of memory or less by default; more memory costs more. | | Company (directory fields) | $0.0009 (from $0.00075 on paid Apify plans) | One saved company row without founders: includeFounders off, a partial row, or a not_found lookup. | | Company with founders | $0.0018 (from $0.0015 on paid Apify plans) | One saved company row with founders, social links, YC partner and open jobs. | - One company: about $0.0048. - 1,000 companies: about $1.80. - Every day 100 companies, for 30 days: about $5.49 a month. Free to try: the Apify free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. Prices checked on 24 October 2026. Current price: https://apify.com/cliqtomedia/y-combinator-companies?fpr=cliqto ## Questions ### Can I get founder emails? No. The tool returns public LinkedIn and X links, not emails or phones. ### How many YC companies are there? The directory has about 6,300 companies. One run can read them. ### Do I need a YC account? No. The tool reads the public directory only. ### Is this an official Y Combinator tool? No. It is an independent tool that reads the public YC website. ### Do I need a YC account, cookies or an API key? No. The Actor reads only the public directory and public company pages. ### How fresh is the data? Every run reads the YC directory live. Team size, status, hiring and jobs are what each company shows on YC at that moment; YC does not guarantee they are current. ### Why are some fields `null`? YC does not show that value for this company, or details were not read (`includeFounders: false` or a `partial` row). ## Data fields - `recordStatus` (string): complete = all requested data; partial = directory fields only because the company page failed (see errorMessage); not_found = no public YC page for this slug (charged as a directory row); error = page failed in companies mode (free). - `ycId` (integer): YC directory company ID. - `name` (string): Company name. - `slug` (string): YC directory slug, e.g. doordash. Use it in companies mode. - `url` (string): YC company page URL. - `website` (string): Company website. - `oneLiner` (string): Short YC tagline. - `longDescription` (string): Long company description from YC. - `batch` (string): YC batch name, e.g. Winter 2024. - `batchCode` (string): Short batch code, e.g. W24, S23, X25 (Spring), F24 (Fall). - `status` (string): Company status in the YC directory: Active, Acquired, Public or Inactive. - `industry` (string): Main YC industry, e.g. B2B. - `subindustry` (string): YC sub-industry path, e.g. B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics. - `industries` (array): All YC industry labels. - `tags` (array): YC tags, e.g. Fintech, AI. - `regions` (array): YC region labels, e.g. United States of America, America / Canada. - `location` (string): Locations as shown in the directory. - `teamSize` (integer): Team size reported to YC. - `isHiring` (boolean): true if the company has open jobs on YC. - `isTopCompany` (boolean): true if YC lists it as a top company. - `isNonprofit` (boolean): true for nonprofits. - `stage` (string): Company stage label from YC, e.g. Early, Growth. - `launchedAt` (string): When the company profile was launched in the YC directory (ISO 8601). - `formerNames` (array): Previous company names. - `logoUrl` (string): Company logo URL (only stable, non-expiring links). - `detailsIncluded` (boolean): true when the company page was read (founders, socials, jobs). false when includeFounders is off or the page failed. - `yearFounded` (integer): Year founded (company page). - `city` (string): City (company page). - `country` (string): Country (company page). - `linkedinUrl` (string): Company LinkedIn URL. - `twitterUrl` (string): Company X/Twitter URL. - `facebookUrl` (string): Company Facebook URL. - `githubUrl` (string): Company GitHub URL. - `crunchbaseUrl` (string): Company Crunchbase URL. - `groupPartner` (string): YC group partner name. - `foundersCount` (integer): Number of founders listed on the YC page. - `founders` (array): Founders: name, title, bio, linkedinUrl, twitterUrl. Never emails or phone numbers. null when details were not read. - `openJobsCount` (integer): Open jobs listed on the YC page. - `jobs` (array): Open jobs: title, url, location, type, role, salaryRange, equityRange, minExperience, visa. null when details were not read. - `errorMessage` (string): Why a row is partial, not_found or error; null when complete. ## Input settings - `mode` (string): search (default): filter the YC directory. companies: look up the companies listed below by slug or URL. - `batches` (array): YC batches, e.g. W24, S23, X25 (Spring 2025), F24 (Fall 2024) or Winter 2024. Empty = all batches. - `search` (string): Free-text search in names and descriptions, e.g. fintech or developer tools. Empty = no keyword. - `industries` (array): YC industry names, e.g. B2B, Fintech, Healthcare, Consumer. Case does not matter; unknown names stop the run with a list of valid ones. - `regions` (array): YC region names, e.g. United States of America, Europe, India, Latin America. - `status` (array): Keep only these statuses. Empty = all. - `isHiring` (boolean): Keep only companies with open jobs on YC. - `topCompaniesOnly` (boolean): Keep only companies YC marks as top companies. - `minTeamSize` (integer): Keep companies with at least this many people. Empty = no minimum. - `maxTeamSize` (integer): Keep companies with at most this many people. Empty = no maximum. - `includeFounders` (boolean): Read each company page for founders (name, title, bio, LinkedIn, X), company social links, YC partner and open jobs. Slower and priced as a full row. Off = directory fields only, cheaper. Always on in companies mode. - `companies` (array): Up to 1000 YC company slugs or URLs, e.g. doordash or https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb. Used only when Mode is companies. - `onlyNew` (boolean): Skip companies already delivered by earlier runs with the same state key. Use with a schedule to get only newly added YC companies. - `stateKey` (string): Name of the remembered list for Only new companies, e.g. w26-fintech. Letters, digits, - and _. Default: default. - `maxItems` (integer): Maximum company rows, 1–10000. Each row is charged. ## Step by step on Apify 1. Open the Input tab. 2. Keep the example: Batches = `W24`, Max companies = `30`. 3. Keep Include founders, socials and jobs on. 4. Click Start. 5. Open the Output tab. The Companies view shows one row per company; the Founders & socials view shows founders, links and jobs. ## Use cases | Task | Input | You get | Key fields | Next step | |---|---|---|---|---| | Lead list of startups in one YC batch | `batches`, `industries` | company | `name`, `website`, `oneLiner`, `linkedinUrl`, `teamSize` | CSV/Excel to a CRM | | Reach out to founders | `batches`, `includeFounders` | company with founders | `founders[].name`, `founders[].title`, `founders[].linkedinUrl` | LinkedIn outreach tools | | Startups that are hiring | `isHiring`, `regions` | company with jobs | `openJobsCount`, `jobs[].title`, `jobs[].salaryRange`, `jobs[].url` | Recruiting spreadsheet | | Market map of an industry | `industries`, `status`, `minTeamSize` | company | `industry`, `subindustry`, `tags`, `status`, `batchCode` | BI tool / Google Sheets | | Enrich your own list of YC companies | `mode: companies`, `companies` | company with founders | `slug`, `groupPartner`, `yearFounded`, `founders` | Your database via API | | Alert on new YC companies | `onlyNew`, `stateKey` + a schedule | new companies only | `name`, `batchCode`, `launchedAt`, `url` | Slack / email via webhook | ## Tips - Use batch codes like W24 or S23 to narrow the list. - Turn on hiring now to keep startups with open jobs. - For the full directory with founders, raise the timeout to about 3,600 seconds. ## Limits - `error` rows (company page failed in `companies` mode) are free. - If you set a maximum cost per run, the Actor stops before it would go over it, keeps the rows it already saved and finishes with a `PARTIAL` status. - `maxItems` up to 10000; the directory has about 6300 companies. - `companies` mode: up to 1000 slugs or URLs per run. - Full rows take about 0.28 seconds each, because the Actor opens one company page per row and keeps a polite request rate. The default run timeout is 300 seconds (enough for about 900 full rows). For larger runs with founders, raise the timeout in Run options: about 3600 seconds for the whole directory. - If the timeout is close, the Actor stops on its own, keeps all saved rows and finishes with `PARTIAL`. - Links are returned as companies wrote them on YC. Some of them are outdated or point to a wrong page; the Actor does not check them. ## Sample result ```json { "recordStatus": "complete", "ycId": 29517, "name": "RetailReady", "slug": "retailready", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retailready", "website": "https://www.retailreadyai.com/", "oneLiner": "An AI-powered supply chain compliance engine", "batch": "Winter 2024", "batchCode": "W24", "status": "Active", "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "industries": ["B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics"], "tags": ["B2B", "Compliance", "Logistics", "Supply Chain", "AI"], "regions": ["United States of America", "America / Canada"], "location": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "teamSize": 12, "isHiring": true, "isTopCompany": false, "isNonprofit": false, "stage": "Early", "launchedAt": "2024-01-16T16:52:04.000Z", "detailsIncluded": true, "yearFounded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/retailreadyai/", "twitterUrl": null, "githubUrl": null, "crunchbaseUrl": null, "groupPartner": "", "foundersCount": 2, "founders": [ { "name": "", "title": "Founder", "bio": "", "linkedinUrl": "https://linkedin.com/in/", "twitterUrl": null }, { "name": "", "title": "Founder", "bio": "", "linkedinUrl": "https://linkedin.com/in/", "twitterUrl": null } ], "openJobsCount": 4, "jobs": [ { "title": "Full Stack Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retailready/jobs/wEGXWv4-full-stack-software-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "salaryRange": "$110K - $170K", "equityRange": "0.05% - 0.25%", "minExperience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only" } ], "errorMessage": null, "source": "ycombinator.com", "fetchedAt": "2026-10-14T02:07:18.929Z" } ``` ## Use it from code Actor ID: `cliqtomedia/y-combinator-companies` ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN") run = client.actor("cliqtomedia/y-combinator-companies").call(run_input={ "mode": "search", "batches": [ "W24" ] }) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) ``` ```bash curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cliqtomedia~y-combinator-companies/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"mode": "search", "batches": ["W24"]}' ``` ```python # pip install langchain-apify # set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment from langchain_apify import ApifyActorsTool tool = ApifyActorsTool("cliqtomedia/y-combinator-companies") result = tool.invoke({"run_input": {"mode": "search", "batches": ["W24"]}}) print(result) ``` run-sync waits up to 300 seconds; for longer runs start a run and use a webhook. 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