Wellfound (AngelList) Startup Jobs & Companies

What it does

Startup job listings from Wellfound, formerly AngelList Talent, with the full job description in every row rather than behind a separate enrichment charge. 58 fields: salary split into min, max, currency and period, equity as a parsed percentage range, geocoded locations, and the applicant tracking system each company hires through.

{
  "job_id": "3184920",
  "title": "Senior Backend Engineer",
  "description": "## About the role\nWe are looking for…",
  "job_type": "full-time",
  "is_remote": true,
  "remote_type": "remote-only",
  "posted_at": "2026-08-19",
  "compensation_raw": "$140k – $180k • 0.1% – 0.4%",
  "salary_min": 140000,
  "salary_max": 180000,
  "salary_currency": "USD",
  "salary_period": "year",
  "equity_offered": true,
  "equity_min_pct": 0.1,
  "equity_max_pct": 0.4,
  "location_names": ["San Francisco"],
  "location_locality": "San Francisco",
  "location_region": "California",
  "location_country": "US",
  "latitude": 37.7749,
  "longitude": -122.4194,
  "years_experience_min": 5,
  "ats_source": "greenhouse",
  "company_name": "Example Labs",
  "company_size_min": 11,
  "company_size_max": 50,
  "company_website": "https://example.com",
  "from_cache": false,
  "data_age_hours": 0
}

Why this one

Use cases

• Track startup hiring demand by role and location, with salary bands you can aggregate rather than parse.
• Build a lead list of companies actively hiring, deduplicated, with size band, industries, website and geocoded headquarters.
• Segment prospects by the applicant tracking system they hire through, where `ats_source` is well filled for the category.
• Compare advertised compensation across cities using the geocoded location rather than the free-text one.
• Measure remote-work supply using `is_remote`, `remote_type` and the accepted applicant countries.

Input

Every field has a default, and the defaults are deliberately small so a first run is cheap enough to inspect before you commit to a sweep. This table mirrors the Actor's own input schema field for field.

Output and fill rates

A field being in the schema is not the same as it having a value. The percentages below were counted on real runs; the sample sizes are in Measurements. Anything not listed here is not promised.

Every key is always present. A field that exists but is empty comes back as explicit null, so a parser never has to guess.

Datasets

Different record types go to different datasets, so the main table never carries columns that are blank on most rows.

Pricing

Pay per delivered result. Charges are applied as each row is produced rather than in a lump at the end, so an aborted run bills only for what it actually gave you.

Measurements

Each figure is shown with the method that produced it. A benchmark without a method is a marketing claim wearing a number's clothes.

What it will not do

Stated plainly so you can judge fit before spending anything.

• No company profile data: no funding rounds, investors, perks or team. Wellfound protects `/company/*` behind a Cloudflare challenge, and that page also exposes named founders and employees.
• `ats_source` ranges from 21% to 83% by role category, so its usefulness depends entirely on which category you are pulling.
• `years_experience_min` is filled on 31.6% of rows overall, between 12.8% and 75% depending on category.
• `remoteOnly` is ignored when `locations` is set, because Wellfound returns a 404 for the combined form. It filters by URL path, not by query string.
• There is no site-wide pagination limit: each role paginates until its corpus runs out, and measured ceilings vary from 37 pages for office-manager to 130 for engineer. Cap a run with `maxJobs` rather than with pages per role.
• Wellfound rate-limits per IP. 16 concurrent requests is the highest value measured without a block and 24 triggers a 429 with roughly a five-minute cooldown, so raising concurrency past that makes a run slower, not faster.
• A residential proxy is effectively required: the same concurrency that returned 24 of 36 requests as HTTP 429 from a datacentre IP returned 48 of 48 as HTTP 200 from a residential one.

Privacy

• No personal data is extracted. Job descriptions are delivered exactly as the company wrote them, and nothing is derived from them.
• Company profile pages are not scraped, and one reason is that they expose named founders and employees.
• The output describes companies and their published vacancies, which are business facts published for candidates to find.
• Removal requests: privacy@actorstack.dev

See also the data removal process.

Guides for this Actor

• Scrape Wellfound jobsA walkthrough of extracting startup job listings: how Wellfound's URL-path filtering constrains what you can ask for, which caps actually bound a run, and what arrives in each row.
• The Wellfound API questionThere is no documented public endpoint for startup job listings. What robots.txt permits, what Cloudflare sits in front of, and which surface is actually readable.
• The ATS spread`ats_source` names the applicant tracking system behind a posting. Its fill rate varies by 62 percentage points across role categories, which is why the average is not published.
• The column not shippedWellfound exposes a maximum years-of-experience value. It was filled on 2 of 2,229 jobs. Shipping it would have added a field that looks like data and is not.
• Salary and equity parsingCompensation on Wellfound is a display string. What it takes to split it into minimum, maximum, currency, period and an equity range — and why the original string still ships.
• Cache age through a CDNA row can be fetched seconds ago and still be a day old. Cloudflare's cache sat in front of Wellfound job pages at up to 23.4 hours, and `data_age_hours` counts it.
• Rate limits and proxiesWellfound rate-limits per IP, and the difference between a datacentre address and a residential one was 24 failures out of 36 against zero out of 48.
• Pagination ceilingsEach role paginates until its own corpus runs out. Measured ceilings ranged from 37 pages to 130, which is why a fixed page cap is the wrong way to bound a run.
• Field referenceAll 58 fields grouped by what they describe, with the rate each was filled on across 2,229 jobs — and the three that are published as ranges rather than averages.
• Why no people dataFounders, employees, funding rounds and investors are all on Wellfound and none of them are in the output. What the line is, and why it sits where it does.