🚀 Y Combinator Company Scraper – Extract Startup Data from Y Combinator (Bulk URLs Supported) 🧠💼

Easily collect startup information from the Y Combinator Startup Directory, one of the world's largest databases of funded startups.

Extract structured company data including company names, founders, industries, team size, locations, YC batch, hiring status, websites, funding stage, descriptions, tags, and more — ideal for startup research, VC sourcing, lead generation, competitive intelligence, market analysis, and sales prospecting.

This Apify Actor supports bulk Y Combinator search URLs, allowing you to scrape multiple YC directory searches in a single run.

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🔍 What This Scraper Does

Simply provide one or multiple Y Combinator directory URLs — the Actor handles the rest.

✅ Supports bulk search URLs

✅ Scrapes multiple YC company searches in one run

✅ Automatically handles pagination

✅ Extracts complete startup profiles

✅ Supports filtered searches (Hiring, Industry, Region, Batch, etc.)

✅ Limits results with a configurable maximum number of companies

✅ Outputs clean datasets ready for CRM, BI, and analytics

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📦 Field Descriptions

Field	Description
🆔 id	Company ID
🏢 name	Company name
📛 slug	URL slug
💬 oneLiner	Short company description
📝 description	Full company description
🌐 website	Official website
🏷️ tags	Company tags
👥 teamSize	Team size
🏭 industry	Main industry
📂 subIndustry	Sub-industry
🏷️ industries	Industry categories
📍 location	Company location
🌎 regions	Geographic regions
🖼️ logoUrl	Company logo
📅 launchedAt	Launch year
🚀 batch	YC batch
🟢 status	Company status
📈 stage	Company stage
💼 isHiring	Hiring status
⭐ topCompany	YC Top Company
❤️ nonprofit	Nonprofit status
🔄 formerNames	Previous company names

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🛠 How to Use

Getting started is simple:

1️⃣ Deploy the Actor on Apify

2️⃣ Paste one or multiple Y Combinator search URLs

3️⃣ Set the maximum number of companies

4️⃣ Run the Actor

5️⃣ Export your dataset

Supported export formats:

✅ JSON

✅ CSV

✅ Excel

✅ XML

✅ HTML

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💡 Why Use This Scraper?

🧲 Startup Lead Generation

💰 Venture Capital & Investor Research

📊 Startup Market Intelligence

🚀 Discover Fast-Growing Companies

💼 Find Hiring Startups

🧠 Competitive Analysis

🗂️ CRM & Database Enrichment

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💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a pay-per-result pricing model.

You only pay for successfully extracted records.

💳 Price: $0.99 / 1,000 results

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✏️ Input Schema Example

Supports bulk Y Combinator URLs.

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?isHiring=true",
    "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?industry=Artificial%20Intelligence",
    "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=W24",
    "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?regions=Europe"
  ],
  "max_items": 500
}

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📤 Output Example

{
  "id": "abc123",
  "name": "OpenAI",
  "slug": "openai",
  "oneLiner": "Making AI safe and useful",
  "description": "OpenAI develops and deploys advanced artificial intelligence technologies.",
  "website": "https://openai.com",
  "tags": [
    "AI",
    "Machine Learning"
  ],
  "teamSize": "500+",
  "industry": "Artificial Intelligence",
  "subIndustry": "General AI",
  "industries": [
    "AI",
    "Research"
  ],
  "location": [
    "San Francisco, CA"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "North America"
  ],
  "logoUrl": "https://logo.clearbit.com/openai.com",
  "launchedAt": "2015",
  "batch": "W15",
  "status": "Active",
  "stage": "Growth",
  "isHiring": true,
  "topCompany": true,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "formerNames": []
}

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📊 Built-in Views

🔹 Overview

Quick summary of all startups.

🔹 Company Profiles

Complete startup information.

🔹 Hiring Companies

Companies actively recruiting.

🔹 Industries

Browse startups by industry.

🔹 YC Batches

Analyze companies by batch.

🔹 Locations

Explore startups by country and region.

🔹 CRM Export

Minimal view for Salesforce, HubSpot, Airtable, Notion and Excel.

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🌍 Supported Search URLs

Supports any Y Combinator company directory URL, including:

• Hiring companies
• AI startups
• Fintech startups
• Healthcare startups
• Climate startups
• SaaS startups
• Developer Tools
• Security
• Europe
• North America
• Asia
• Batch pages (W24, S24, W23, etc.)
• Any combination of YC search filters

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