Search YC Company Founders by Name or Company

Search with a founder’s name or company name, or browse without a search term. Have your Agent organize the returned people, company background and YC information, with optional page and result-count choices.

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Help me explore existing YC-company founder records using https://toolmu.com/tools/search-yc-founders-y-combinator. I can browse without a search term, or add [founder name or company name] and optionally [page number] or [results per page]. Use my ordinary search wording directly and prepare paging choices internally. If an optional bracket is unfilled, ask whether I want to fill it or browse without it. Organize only the actual returned names, source-listed company, role, region and YC background. Keep each person’s details together and help me choose between ambiguous matches using the source company context; do not assume the first entry is the right person. Keep separate company-association text, YC batches and industry groups separate instead of inventing a paired or dated career history. Do not construct profile links or contact addresses from names or source references. Preserve missing information as unknown, distinguish page records from reported totals, and do not present source roles as verified current employment, private contact access or co-founder availability.

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Help me explore founders associated with YC companies. Organize the returned names, source-listed companies, roles, regions and YC background. Keep each person’s details together, separate this page’s records from the reported match total, and point out matches that need confirmation.

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Search YC Company Founders by Name or Company

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Receive a page of founder records with available names, source-listed company, role and region, company background, YC batches and industry information. Your Agent can prepare a research table, keeping each person’s details together and distinguishing this page’s records from the source’s reported match total.

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Help me explore founders associated with YC companies. Organize the returned names, source-listed companies, roles, regions and YC background. Keep each person’s details together, separate this page’s records from the reported match total, and point out matches that need confirmation.

What to know

Names, companies, roles and regions are source records, not independent confirmation of identity or present employment. Separate company, batch and industry lists do not establish a chronological career history or a company-by-company pairing. Coverage and counts describe the source directory, not every founder. This search does not assess co-founder compatibility or arrange introductions.

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Input schema

Input schema
Field / Path	Type	Requirement	Meaning
queryParams`queryParams`	`object`	Optional
Page number`queryParams.page`	`integer`	Optional	Optional integer page index; 0 is the first page. No default or sorting order is documented.
Results per page`queryParams.limit`	`integer`	Optional	Optional integer requested number of results per page. No default or maximum is documented.
Founder or company keyword`queryParams.query`	`string`	Optional	Optional search keyword for a founder name or company. Search association does not guarantee an exact person-identity match or only the source-listed current company.

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{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [],
  "properties": {
    "queryParams": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "page": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Page number (0-indexed)."
        },
        "limit": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Results per page."
        },
        "query": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Search keyword for founder name or company."
        }
      },
      "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
Current-page founder records`result.data.hits`	`array`	Source founder matches returned on this page. This is not a list of compatible co-founders or every founder in the source.
Source person record ID`result.data.hits[].id`	`number`	Identifier for this source person record, without independent person-identity verification.
Source first name`result.data.hits[].first_name`	`string`	First-name text supplied by the source. Keep it with the matching record’s surname and identifiers.
Source surname`result.data.hits[].last_name`	`string`	Surname supplied by the source, retaining its spelling and association with this person record.
Source person identifier`result.data.hits[].url_slug`	`string`	Original person slug supplied in the record. Retain it as this record’s identifier; no full person-profile URL or email address is supplied here.
Source-listed company`result.data.hits[].current_company`	`string`	Company label reported for the person. It does not independently verify current employment or establish the company that caused this search match.
Source-listed role`result.data.hits[].current_title`	`string`	Role label supplied by the source, not independently verified current employment or authority.
Source-listed region`result.data.hits[].current_region`	`string`	Region label reported by the source, not verified residence, nationality, contact location or applicant eligibility.
Source-listed company identifier`result.data.hits[].company_slug`	`string`	Company identifier supplied with the person record, retained for company context or a separate company-profile lookup. It is distinct from the person identifier.
Company-association text`result.data.hits[].all_companies_text`	`string`	Original source text that can name several associated companies. Keep the wording without inferring a dated sequence, ownership or structured company history.
Source YC batch codes`result.data.hits[].batches`	`array`	YC batch-code collection associated with this record. It is not founding-year data; no positional pairing with company names or industry groups is established.
Source YC industry groups`result.data.hits[].yc_industries`	`array`	Grouped source industry labels for this record. Preserve the nested groups without assuming their order matches companies or batches; this output does not add an industry filter.
Hacker News identifier`result.data.hits[].hnid`	`string`	Source Hacker News account identifier when supplied. It is not a private email address or guarantee of contact access.
Reported total matches`result.data.nbHits`	`number`	Total source index matches for this search state, distinct from the records actually returned on this page. It is not an all-founder census.
Returned page number`result.data.page`	`number`	Source page index starting at 0, kept with this page’s records.
Reported available pages`result.data.nbPages`	`number`	Source-reported page count. Accessible pagination can be limited independently of total matches, so not every reported match is necessarily retrievable.
Reported page size`result.data.hitsPerPage`	`number`	Source-reported page-size setting, not the actual number of records on this page.
Source count completeness flag`result.data.exhaustiveNbHits`	`boolean`	Whether the source reports the index match count as exhaustive. It does not establish complete current founder coverage; false does not mean zero matches.

Additional notes

Source context: Stripe’s official YC profile and founder section. It illustrates company-associated founder information. The company page’s links, job sections and fuller profiles do not become extra fields in this founder-search result.

Keep each person’s source record intact. Company-association text can contain several company names. The source does not establish which batch or industry group belongs to each named company, so do not turn their positions into a verified company history. Read actual current-page records and reported index totals separately, and keep source-listed roles or regions attributed.

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It searches existing founder records associated with YC companies. It does not assess compatibility, confirm that someone is available to join a company, or introduce you to them.

Search YC Company Founders by Name or Company

Search YC Company Founders by Name or Company

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What to know

Inputs & outputs

Input schema

Result schema

Add a name or company if you want to focus the search

Send your request

Review the actual people and company context

Questions about this tool.

You receive

Start with your task

What to know

Inputs & outputs

Input schema

Result schema

Add a name or company if you want to focus the search

Send your request

Review the actual people and company context

Questions about this tool.

Is this a service for finding a compatible co-founder?

Can I narrow the search by YC batch, industry or region?