Look Up a YC Company Profile and Its Founders

Provide a company name or its original YC profile link. After confirming the company, let your Agent organize the available business description, YC participation and founder information into a brief with sources.

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Help me read a YC company profile using https://toolmu.com/tools/get-yc-company-profile-y-combinator. I will provide [company name] or [YC company profile link]. Ask for ordinary missing details; bracket placeholders are not completed values. If I provide only a name, first confirm the actual company entry in the YC directory. Verify a provided original YC profile link rather than guessing a page from the name. If the company is ambiguous, show actual candidates with their available source context and ask me to choose. If it cannot be confirmed, ask for the original YC company page and pause. Prepare a brief from the returned descriptions, YC participation, reported founding year, team and location, and available founder details. Keep each founder’s information together and distinguish the YC profile from the reported company website. Preserve missing information and attribute source status, counts and roles; do not infer current hiring, legal identity, contact details or investment quality. Keep participation and founding year separate. Stay within my authorized task and spending limit.

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Prepare a YC company brief for [company name]. Confirm the correct company first, then summarize its available description, YC participation, reported team and location, and founder information with original source links.

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Look Up a YC Company Profile and Its Founders

You receive

You receive the available YC profile information for the confirmed company. Your Agent can organize its description, company categories, YC participation, reported founding year, team size and location, together with available founder names, roles and profile links. Keep the YC profile link distinct from the company website reported in that profile.

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Prepare a YC company brief for [company name]. Confirm the correct company first, then summarize its available description, YC participation, reported team and location, and founder information with original source links.

What to know

Company status, team size and founder roles are source reports, without a guarantee that they are current. Missing text or links remain unavailable. Profile links do not guarantee contact, and the profile does not independently verify legal identity, hiring or investment quality. Job and news sections on the website are outside this result.

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Input schema

Input schema
Field / Path	Type	Requirement	Meaning
queryParams`queryParams`	`object`	Required	Required fields `slug`
YC company identifier`queryParams.slug`	`string`	Required	Required source company slug, such as stripe, airbnb or coinbase, available from company-search results. Supply the identifier rather than a full name, URL or legal-registration number.

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{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "queryParams"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "queryParams": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "slug"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "slug": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Company slug identifier (e.g. 'airbnb', 'coinbase', 'stripe'). Obtainable from search_companies results."
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Result schema

No fixed output contract is available. Field types reflect saved result evidence; individual responses can differ.

Result schema
Field / Path	Type	Meaning
YC company record ID`result.data.id`	`number`	Source directory identifier for this company record, not a legal-registration number.
Company display name`result.data.name`	`string`	Name reported by the source. It identifies the profile display, without independently verifying a legal entity.
Returned company identifier`result.data.slug`	`string`	Original source identifier for the returned company profile. Keep it with the source record and profile URL.
YC profile link`result.data.ycdc_url`	`string`	Link to this company’s Y Combinator profile. It is distinct from the company’s own website.
Reported company website`result.data.website`	`string`	Company website URL supplied in the YC profile. Retain the original link; this lookup does not independently verify site ownership.
YC cohort label`result.data.batch_name`	`string`	Readable YC participation cohort, such as Summer 2009. The cohort is distinct from the company’s founding year.
YC directory status`result.data.ycdc_status`	`string`	Source directory status label, such as Active. It does not establish current hiring or legal registration status.
Company summary`result.data.one_liner`	`string`	Short company description supplied by the source. Treat statements as source descriptions.
Company description`result.data.long_description`	`string`	Longer source company description, when supplied. It is not an independently verified research report.
Reported location`result.data.location`	`string`	Location label in the profile, not a complete office list or verified registered address.
Reported country`result.data.country`	`string`	Country value supplied for the profile. It does not establish incorporation jurisdiction or all operating countries.
Reported team size`result.data.team_size`	`number`	Team count reported in the source profile, not independently verified current headcount, founder count or vacancies.
Reported founding year`result.data.year_founded`	`number`	Company founding year supplied by the source. Keep it separate from the YC participation cohort.
Source category tags`result.data.tags`	`array`	Original category-label collection. Retain labels as supplied rather than treating them as a complete industry taxonomy.
Source-listed founders`result.data.founders`	`array`	Founder records supplied for the company, with available names, role labels, biography text and profile links. Keep each person’s details together; availability varies.
Founder name`result.data.founders[].full_name`	`string`	Display name supplied for this founder record, without independent person-identity verification.
Source founder role`result.data.founders[].title`	`string`	Role label shown by the source, such as Founder/CEO. It does not guarantee the person’s current employment or authority.
Founder LinkedIn link`result.data.founders[].linkedin_url`	`string`	LinkedIn profile URL supplied for this founder. Keep it distinct from company links and do not infer a contact address.
Founder social link`result.data.founders[].twitter_url`	`string`	Twitter profile URL supplied for this founder, retained in its original form. It is not an email address or reachability guarantee.
Founder biography`result.data.founders[].founder_bio`	`string`	Source biography text when available. A blank value means no text was supplied here, not that no biography exists.
Founder-associated company name`result.data.founders[].latest_yc_company.name`	`string`	Company name linked in the founder’s source record. The field does not verify when the association began or a current role.
Founder-associated YC profile`result.data.founders[].latest_yc_company.href`	`string`	YC company-profile link supplied with the founder-associated company. Preserve the source link without inferring ownership or employment.

Additional notes

Source: Stripe’s official YC company profile. This illustrates the company descriptions, cohort, source status, reported team/location and founder names or roles available in a YC profile. Use the exact company identifier and keep company links distinct from founder links.

The YC participation cohort is separate from the company’s founding year. Source labels and counts should remain attributed; they do not independently verify current operations. Optional blank or missing information remains unavailable rather than proof that the company or founder lacks it. Website job and news sections do not become part of this Tool’s company-profile result.

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No. YC participation describes the company’s accelerator cohort; the founding year describes when the company was founded. Keep the two facts separate even when their years happen to match.

Look Up a YC Company Profile and Its Founders

Look Up a YC Company Profile and Its Founders

You receive

Start with your task

What to know

Inputs & outputs

Input schema

Result schema

Provide the company name or profile link

Send the request and confirm the company

Read the company brief with sources

Questions about this tool.

You receive

Start with your task

What to know

Inputs & outputs

Input schema

Result schema

Provide the company name or profile link

Send the request and confirm the company

Read the company brief with sources

Questions about this tool.

Is the YC participation period the company’s founding year?

Does the profile confirm that the company is hiring?