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Public YC startup directory: browse or search companies by batch and filters (directory and industry URLs route here), list batches, read one or up to 25 company profiles with founders and stage, read a company's advertised jobs, search jobs across all YC companies, and list Launch YC posts.

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Find the first page of active YC companies tagged Developer Tools that are currently marked as hiring, with company names, descriptions and profile links.

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1Request
string

Exact batch label as published by YC, e.g. Summer 2025 or Winter 2022. Use the batches function to list valid labels.

boolean

Only companies the directory flags as hiring (true) or not hiring (false).

string

Exact industry label, e.g. B2B, Consumer, Healthcare, Fintech.

string

Free-text search over company names and descriptions. Omit or leave empty to browse by filters only.

5 credits
Codefollows the fields above
const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "ycombinator-com",
    capability: "companies/search",
    options: {
      query: "Firecrawl",
    },
  },
});
2Response example

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next_page
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page
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source_url
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies
total
1
all_locationsbatchidindustryisHiringnameone_linerregionsslugstagestatussubindustrytagsteam_sizeurlwebsite
San Francisco, CA, USASummer 202227152B2BtrueFirecrawlUnited States of AmericaAmerica / CanadaRemotefirecrawlGrowthActiveB2BDeveloper ToolsOpen SourceAI3ycombinator.com/companies/firecrawlfirecrawl.dev

Firecrawl tools

4

Ready-made Firecrawl tools that call Y Combinator.

Uses Y Combinator, FullEnrichYC batch founder outreachUse when a company sells to startups and wants a contact list for a Y Combinator batch, industry or hiring cohort: each company with its founders' verified work emails.4 toolsOpen
Uses Fireround, Y Combinator, Greenhouse job boards, ApolloFreshly funded hiring shortlistUse when a recruiter, agency or job seeker wants companies that just raised money but have not yet posted most of their roles. Pulls recent rounds, checks how many jobs each company already advertises against the size of the raise, and finds the founders, producing a shortlist ranked by hiring gap.6 toolsOpen
Uses Fireround, Y Combinator, Built In, Greenhouse job boards, Apollo+1New-grad employer outreach listUse when a university career services director or employer relations manager wants new employers to bring to campus. Finds recently funded startups and accelerator companies posting entry-level and intern roles, checks their hiring volume and location, producing an outreach list of employers likely to recruit graduates this cycle.7 toolsOpen
Uses Fireround, FullEnrich, Similarweb, Y Combinator, Greenhouse job boards+1Startup offer runway checkUse when a candidate, or a recruiter trying to close one, needs to judge the real risk in a startup job offer. Reads the funding history and last valuation, whether the lead investor follows on, headcount and traffic momentum, and whether the company is still hiring, producing a plain-language risk read and the questions to ask before signing.6 toolsOpen

Benchmarks

Jobs benchmarks

Quality, speed and cost, last 24 hours, across every agent call to Y Combinator through Alexandria.

Quality
97.9%
Calls answered without a tool error
Speed
9.7 s
95% of successful calls finish faster
Cost
5 credits
Firecrawl credits per call
Calls
906
Last 24 hours, every Alexandria user
Quality and speed of each tool, last 24 hours
ToolQualitySpeedCalls
Job search98.7%13.0 s371
Search99.4%3.7 s332
Company84%1.9 s75
Launches100%617 ms60
Jobs100%682 ms57

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