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Y Combinator Founder Directory Search

omnial/search-founders

Search the public Y Combinator founder directory by a founder's name or a company name. Each match returns the founder's name, current company and title, the YC batch(es) they went through, their industry tags, region, and a profile photo URL. Per the vendor's own documentation, a blank query returns the full directory, page by page.

activeper callv1
Provider
Web & Business Data Network
Category
people-enrichment
Provider price
$0.01365 per call
Latency p50 / p95
— / —
Success rate
—
Verified
—

Provider list price; Omnial MCP charges provider cost plus a platform markup on top.

Contract

input_schema.json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "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
}
output_schema.json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "status",
    "data"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "data": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "hits",
        "nbHits",
        "page",
        "nbPages",
        "query"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "hits": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "id": {
                "type": "number",
                "description": "The founder's directory id."
              },
              "batches": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "description": "YC batch code(s), e.g. 'S09'. More than one entry when a founder went through more than one batch."
              },
              "url_slug": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Identifier for the founder's own directory page."
              },
              "last_name": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "first_name": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "top_company": {
                "type": "boolean"
              },
              "avatar_thumb": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "A hosted profile photo URL for the founder."
              },
              "company_slug": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "current_title": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "Observed null on three of five real hits (e.g. a founder with no title on file) -- do not assume this is always populated."
              },
              "current_region": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Free-text country or region."
              },
              "current_company": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "yc_subindustries": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "all_companies_text": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Every company this founder has been associated with, comma-joined."
              },
              "yc_parent_industries": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "string"
                }
              }
            },
            "additionalProperties": false
          },
          "description": "The matching founders on this page. Empty when nothing matches."
        },
        "page": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "0-indexed current page."
        },
        "query": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The search term this result was matched against."
        },
        "nbHits": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Total matches across all pages."
        },
        "nbPages": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Total number of pages."
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "status": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "'success' on both real calls observed (a populated and a zero-hit search)."
    }
  },
  "description": "The search result, narrowed and reshaped from the founder directory response.",
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Pricing

Every real charge, itemised. A model that quietly omits one is a slow financial leak, so nothing here is rolled up, and a charge that only applies to some inputs says so rather than being added in.

Prices in this catalog are the provider's own list price, not your bill: Omnial MCP charges provider cost plus a platform markup on top, so what you are charged is higher than the figure shown. For the exact amount a specific call will cost, run omnial_execute with dry_run: true; that number includes the markup and is what we hold while the call runs. It is a quote, not a cap on the charge.

ChargeRate
Per call
Flat, regardless of what comes back
$0.01365
Cost basis
Not recorded

This tool's catalog entry does not record how its final bill is determined, so we will not tell you whether its cost is fixed before the call or reported by the provider afterwards. Either way what is held is a quote rather than a cap: you are charged what the call actually costs, bounded at 2x the quote.

Updated
Sep 23, 2026