About & Methodology
5,071 startups · 6,179 open roles · refreshed daily · last build 2026-07-17
What this site is
techstartupslist.com is an automated directory of 5,071 tech startups and 6,179 open roles. Nothing here is typed in by hand: scrapers discover companies and jobs from public sources, normalize them, and publish the result. Every profile links directly to the company — we never sit between you and an application.
Where the data comes from
Startups are discovered from the public Y Combinator directory (via the yc-oss dataset) and Product Hunt. Jobs come from public Ashby, Greenhouse, and Lever job boards — we auto-discover which indexed companies run a public board and re-check it on every scrape. Logos are fetched from each company and refreshed when the upstream image changes.
When a company appears in multiple sources, records are merged field-by-field. Fields a human has curated (scores, trending flags, editorial notes) are never overwritten by a scraper.
How often it updates
Job boards are re-scraped daily; a weekly full pass re-fetches every indexed company so taglines, team sizes, and statuses stay current. Roles disappear from listings automatically when the company closes them. Companies that shut down are marked inactive — they drop out of listings but their profiles stay reachable so existing links don't break.
Paid placements, disclosed
The only paid product on the site is a featured job slot ($300 for 30 days). Featured listings are always labeled with a "Featured" badge and sort first while the placement is active — never silently mixed into organic results. Nothing else on the site is pay-to-play: scores, trending flags, and rankings cannot be bought.
Spotted a mistake?
Wrong tagline, dead logo, a company we're missing? Use the submit page to file a correction or addition — each submission opens a reviewable ticket and lands in the index after a human look. If you're subscribed to the weekly digest, replying to any issue of it reaches a human too.
Who runs this
techstartupslist.com is built and run by Kornel Dubieniecki, a software engineer. The whole pipeline — scrapers, merge rules, this website — is his work, which is also why the methodology can be described this precisely.