# Hacker News API: Get YC company profile > Looks up a Y Combinator company by name or YC company page link and returns its profile, founders, social links and open job count. Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Hacker News. - Page: https://fous.com/methods/ycombinator.com/get-company - Method: `ycombinator.com/get_company`, version 1 - Website: ycombinator.com - Returns: name, description, batch, status, industries, founders, social links, open jobs count, YC page link - Effect: read (it gets data and changes nothing) - Sign-in: none needed - Cost: 1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free - Verified: Nov 2, 2026 ## Inputs | Field | Type | Required | In the run below | Description | |---|---|---|---|---| | `company` | string | yes | `"Airbnb"` | The YC company name or its YC company page link, for example Airbnb or https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb. | ## Output From a run on Oct 23, 2026, shortened. Its input: ```json { "company": "Airbnb" } ``` Its output: ```json { "name": "Airbnb", "batch": "Winter 2009", "status": "Public", "website": "http://airbnb.com", "founders": [ { "name": "Brian Chesky", "title": "Founder/CEO", "linkedin_link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianchesky/" }, { "name": "Nathan Blecharczyk", "title": "Founder/CTO", "linkedin_link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/blecharczyk/" }, { "name": "Joe Gebbia", "title": "Founder/CPO", "linkedin_link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgebbia/" } ], "location": "San Francisco", "jobs_link": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb/jobs", "team_size": 6132, "industries": [ "Marketplace", "Travel" ], "founded_year": 2008, "social_links": { "github": null, "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Airbnb", "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/airbnb/", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/airbnb/", "crunchbase": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airbnb" }, "yc_page_link": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb", "open_jobs_count": 0, "long_description": "Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Ai…", "one_line_description": "Book accommodations around the world." } ``` ## Run it From code, with a Fous API key in `FOUS_API_KEY`; the answer's `data` holds the output: ```bash curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"method":"ycombinator.com/get_company","input":{"company":"Airbnb"}}' ``` From an AI agent connected to the Fous MCP server: its `run` with the same method and input. To connect one, give it `set up https://fous.com/SKILL.md`. ## Ask your agent - Can you pull up the Y Combinator profile for Stripe, including founders and how many jobs they have open? - What batch did Dropbox go through at YC, and what industries are they tagged under? - Show me the YC company page for https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gitlab with its social links and status. - I'm researching startups from the W21 batch. Look up Instacart and tell me who founded it and where to find them online. - Find the Y Combinator listing for Coinbase and give me a description plus the number of open roles. ## Input schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "company" ], "properties": { "company": { "type": "string", "description": "The YC company name or its YC company page link, for example Airbnb or https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb." } }, "additionalProperties": false } ``` ## Output schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "name", "one_line_description", "long_description", "batch", "status", "industries", "founded_year", "team_size", "location", "website", "founders", "social_links", "open_jobs_count", "jobs_link", "yc_page_link" ], "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "batch": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "status": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "website": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "founders": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "name", "title", "linkedin_link" ], "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "title": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "linkedin_link": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] } }, "additionalProperties": false } }, "location": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "jobs_link": { "type": "string" }, "team_size": { "type": [ "integer", "null" ] }, "industries": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "founded_year": { "type": [ "integer", "null" ] }, "social_links": { "type": "object", "required": [ "linkedin", "twitter", "facebook", "github", "crunchbase" ], "properties": { "github": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "twitter": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "facebook": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "linkedin": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "crunchbase": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] } }, "additionalProperties": false }, "yc_page_link": { "type": "string" }, "open_jobs_count": { "type": "integer" }, "long_description": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "one_line_description": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] } }, "additionalProperties": false } ``` ## See more - [Hacker News API: Search YC companies](https://fous.com/methods/ycombinator.com/search-companies.md): Searches the Y Combinator company directory by keyword, industry, batch, location, hiring and status, returning companies in directory order. - [Hacker News API: Search stories](https://fous.com/methods/news.ycombinator.com/search-stories.md): Searches Hacker News stories or comments by words, date range and sort order. Comments include their parent story's website link when one exists; text-only stories have no website link. - [Hacker News API: Get discussion](https://fous.com/methods/news.ycombinator.com/get-discussion.md): Gets a Hacker News story and its comments in the order shown on the site. The story can be given as a discussion link or as words from its title. Deleted and flagged comments are left out. - [Hacker News API: List Who is hiring posts](https://fous.com/methods/news.ycombinator.com/list-hiring-posts.md): Lists top-level job posts from a monthly Ask HN: Who is hiring? thread in thread order, with post text and the company, roles, location, work arrangement, salary and application contact inferred from each post. - [Hacker News API: List stories](https://fous.com/methods/news.ycombinator.com/list-front-page.md): Lists current Hacker News stories in rank order from the top, newest, best, Ask HN, Show HN or jobs list. - [LinkedIn API: Get company profile](https://fous.com/methods/linkedin.com/get-company-profile.md): Gets the public overview of a LinkedIn company from its name or company page link. Details not shown publicly are null. - [Companies House API: Get UK company profile](https://fous.com/methods/company-information.service.gov.uk/get-company-profile.md): Looks up a UK company on Companies House by name, company number or Companies House link and returns its public registration details; a name prefers an active exact match. - [Yahoo API: Get company news](https://fous.com/methods/finance.yahoo.com/get-company-news.md): Looks up a company by name or ticker on Yahoo Finance and returns its latest news headlines, with article summaries when the article page provides one. - [All Hacker News methods](https://fous.com/methods/ycombinator.com.md)