Y Combinator Companies

Extract YC startup leads, founder emails, LinkedIn profiles, and hiring data from a URL

$5 / 1k companies

Extract YC startup leads, founder emails, LinkedIn profiles, and hiring data from a URL

Endpoint

POST /api/v1/agents/ycombinator/companies/run

Parameters

url · string · required

Text · Companies search URL.

Go to link, search using the required filters, and once you are done, copy the full URL from the address bar and paste it here.

scrapeFounders · boolean · default: true

Toggle · If true, the actor will scrape information about all company founders.

scrapeOpenJobs · boolean · default: false

Toggle · Set to true if you want to get information about open jobs.

maxCompanies · integer · default: 0

Number · Maximum number of results to return. Use 0 for all.

Response columns

Field	Display name	Type
ycUrl	YC URL	url
company	Company	text
shortDescription	Short Description	text
longDescription	Long Description	text
logo	Logo	url
website	Website	url
location	Location	text
batch	Batch	text
status	Status	text
industry	Industry	text
subindustry	Subindustry	text
tags	Tags	text
founded	Founded	number
teamSize	Team Size	number
hiring	Hiring	boolean
openJobs	Open Jobs	number
ycPartner	YC Partner	text
linkedin	LinkedIn	url
twitter	Twitter	url
crunchbase	Crunchbase	url
github	GitHub	url
founder	Founder	text
founderTitle	Founder Title	text
founderBio	Founder Bio	text
founderLinkedin	Founder LinkedIn	url
founderTwitter	Founder Twitter	url
founderEmail	Founder Email	email
emailAvailable	Email Available	boolean
emailStatus	Email Status	text
companyId	Company ID	text
founderId	Founder ID	text

Example

curl

curl -X POST https://api.mindcase.co/api/v1/agents/ycombinator/companies/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer mk_live_abc123def456" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "params": {
    "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=Spring%202026",
    "scrapeFounders": true,
    "scrapeOpenJobs": false,
    "scrapeAllCompanies": false
  }
}'

Example response

Response

{
  "job_id": "job_7f3a2b1c",
  "status": "completed",
  "data": [
    {
      "ycUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gikl-inc",
      "company": "Gikl, Inc",
      "shortDescription": "Accelerating scientific discovery with AI",
      "longDescription": "ScienceSwarm makes AI useful for what matters. Coding assistants turned millions of people into software developers \u2014 we're doing the same for science. Our platform lets anyone point their AI at unsolved problems in math, science, and engineering, submit approaches and hypotheses, and verify the work with a community of AI-powered enthusiasts. AI's biggest impact won't be personal productivity. It will be unlocking scientific breakthroughs that humans alone can't reach.",
      "logo": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/671f22915a13be6fba0e1479fe843328102d944c.png",
      "website": "https://scienceswarm.ai",
      "location": "San Francisco",
      "batch": "Spring 2026",
      "status": "Active",
      "industry": "Consumer",
      "subindustry": null,
      "tags": [
        "Swarm AI",
        "AI",
        "AI Assistant",
        "San Francisco"
      ],
      "founded": "2026",
      "teamSize": "2",
      "hiring": false,
      "openJobs": 0,
      "ycPartner": "Garry Tan",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/scienceswarm-ai",
      "twitter": null,
      "crunchbase": null,
      "github": null,
      "founder": null,
      "founderTitle": null,
      "founderBio": null,
      "founderLinkedin": null,
      "founderTwitter": null,
      "founderEmail": null,
      "emailAvailable": null,
      "emailStatus": null,
      "companyId": 31333,
      "founderId": null
    }
  ]
}