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Y Combinator directory as data: ~6,300 startups with a domain and a hiring flag

Y Combinator has funded thousands of startups, and its public directory is the single best list of them — but only as a website. The Y Combinator Company Directory Scraper takes a keyword or filters and returns matching companies as clean rows — website, domain, batch, status, funding stage, team size, location, industry, tags, description and whether they're hiring. The whole directory (~6,300 companies, batch-swept so nothing is lost to pagination) or any slice. No login, no API key.

Who it's for

• Startup sales teams targeting YC companies by industry and hiring status, with a domain to enrich.
• VC and market researchers tracking a batch or industry over time, or studying acquisition and IPO outcomes.
• Recruiters sourcing fast-growing startups that are actively hiring.
• Data teams joining YC rows onto a CRM or an enrichment actor by domain.

What you get

Input

{ "industry": ["B2B"], "status": ["Active"], "isHiring": true, "maxResults": 100 }

Honest limits

• YC's directory only — for firmographics beyond it, enrich the domain with a company-enrichment actor or pull a broader view from Crunchbase.
• YC doesn't fill every field for every company — empty values are returned absent, never fabricated.
• The full directory is a long run — set maxResults: 0 deliberately; rows are pushed and charged in blocks of 200.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.003 per delivered company. Empty lookups are never billed; the whole directory or any slice scales linearly. Current prices are on the actor's Pricing tab on Apify.

Related

For broader firmographics use the Crunchbase Scraper; for daily launches the Product Hunt Scraper; and for companies from official registries with decision-makers, the B2B Company & Decision-Maker Finder.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a Y Combinator API key?

No. There is no official YC API; this reads the public company directory directly, with no key or login.

How many companies are in the directory?

Around 6,300 and growing with every batch. The Actor returns all of them (or any filtered subset), sweeping batch by batch so nothing is lost to pagination limits.

Can I filter by batch or status?

Yes — by batch, status, industry, region or tags, plus a free-text query and hiring / top-company flags.

Does it include each company's website?

Yes — every company carries its website and a parsed bare domain, the join key for CRM matching and enrichment.

How current is the data?

Every run reads the live directory, so acquisitions, new companies and hiring flags update automatically. A field YC doesn't fill is returned absent, never fabricated.

Using the data lawfully

The Actor reads only the publicly published company directory — company data, not private user data. Results can still contain personal data (a founder name in a description); personal data is protected by the GDPR and similar laws, so only process it with a legitimate basis. Not affiliated with Y Combinator Management, LLC.