Updated February 2026

Data Enrichment · How-to

How to Find Company Founded Year from LinkedIn Company URL?

Derrick lets you Find Company Founded Year from Linkedin Company Url. Automate your data enrichment for free and have more time for what matters most: Closing.

Start for free → Run this in Claude, guided

Used by 34,000+ B2B sales teams

You give

LinkedIn Company URL

You get

Company Founded Year

In the Derrick web app, Google Sheets, Claude or the API.

The data01 / 04

What is company founded year?

Company founded year is the year an account was incorporated. It's a maturity proxy: a 2024-founded company is in early-stage scrappy mode; a 1998-founded one is in steady-state with established procurement processes. Sales teams use it as an ICP filter alongside headcount, industry and revenue.

For B2B teams operating from a list of LinkedIn company URL values, company founded year is typically among the first 3-5 fields enriched on a fresh list. It feeds personalisation, segmentation, and routing logic - all of which need company founded year to be present and current before any downstream automation runs.

Why you need company founded year for sales

Founded year separates "young venture-funded buyers who decide in days" from "established companies with 90-day procurement cycles". Knowing it upfront calibrates the rep's expectations on cycle length, decision-maker level (founder/CEO at startups vs procurement at enterprises) and price elasticity.

Company Founded Year is one of the highest-ROI enrichments for any team starting from LinkedIn company URL: the marginal cost of one credit per row beats the alternative of an SDR manually researching the field on Google or LinkedIn (typically 30-90 seconds per record × your list size = tens of hours saved on a 1,000-row list).

Why find company founded year from LinkedIn company URL?

Starting from the LinkedIn company URL for company founded year resolution gives you direct access to LinkedIn's most reliable account graph: headcount, employee list, recent posts, growth trends. The LinkedIn company URL is the canonical join key that eliminates company-name spelling variants (Acme Corp vs Acme Inc vs Acme Corp.) and makes company founded year enrichment near-deterministic.

Common use cases for company founded year

Sales-cycle calibration (startup vs enterprise)
Decision-maker level estimation
Maturity-based ICP segmentation

Step 102 / 04

Open Derrick (web app or Google Sheets)

Derrick will allow you to find Company Founded Year in a few clicks without any technical skills. Create a free account in the Derrick web app (or install the Google Sheets add-on) and bring your list. Now you’re ready ! You can also find data such as company tagline,company phone number,company country,company city... Discover Derrick Now

Start for free

Camille Roux Head of Sales Paris

Thomas Keller Founder Berlin

Michael Kim SDR Team Lead New York

Alex Clark GTM Leader San Francisco

Sofia Andersen Agency founder Stockholm

Mei Tanaka SDR Tokyo

Marco Bellini Growth Lead Milan

Louis Meyer Account Executive Montréal

Claire Dubois Head of Sales São Paulo

Jean Rouvier Founder Sydney

Zaid Bilal RevOps Dubai

Etienne Grange CEO Cape Town

Step 203 / 04

Enrich Company Data

Congratulations, you have done the most complicated. Now let's see how to get company founded year from linkedin company url.In order to Find company founded year With linkedin company url, You will need to use the Enrich Company Data Feature from Derrick App. It's quite easy to use. In the drop-down menu, select the column header that corresponds to a LinkedIn company URL. Validate the operation by clicking on enrich, and let Derrick do his job.

Start for free Explore Derrick's LinkedIn Lead Enrichment

Web appGoogle SheetsClaudeAPI

Done04 / 04

🎉 Done. You found the company founded year.

Every row of your list now has its company founded year. A few clicks, no code.

Your path

01Open Derrick
→
02Enrich Company Data

Start for free

Why teams choose Derrick.

Powerful features that save time and boost your sales pipeline.

ENRICHMENT

100+ data points on companies & leads.

AI POWERED

Built-in AI, no separate subscription.

FOUR SURFACES

The web app, Google Sheets, your AI assistant, or the API.

BEST VALUE

Same quality data, for a fraction of the cost.

How it Works

Get started in 3 simple steps.

Start where you already work

The web app, a spreadsheet, your AI assistant, or your own code. Pick the surface that fits the job - the engine behind them is the same.

Choose an action, give it an input

Email, phone, company, a prompt: the same actions are available on all four, priced the same way.

Get the answer where you asked

Rows fill in the app or your sheet, your assistant answers in the chat, the API returns JSON. And it says when it found nothing, instead of guessing.

Try the app free

or use it in

Google Sheets

Claude

API

No credit card required • 100 free credits

Data Enrichment workflows

Chain actions without technical knowledge. Everything happens in your list.

Company

Customer stories

Loved by sales teams worldwide

See what our customers say about Derrick.

323 reviews

"This app saved me so much time and effort. Great for anyone looking to build a contact list or network at scale quickly. As a start-up it's been invaluable."

Alex Clark

Director | SaaS GTM Leader

"Working pretty nifty compared to Snov.Io. Price wise it does give a fair shake, and IMO better interface since it's google sheets."

David Sire

Mortgage Broker at Zero Point Mortgage

"Derrick is a very simple and user-friendly app to enrich your contacts database. Best thing: you can test it for free. And then the price is so low, it's a no brainer."

Etienne Grange

CEO Form'actions

Keep enriching12

Suggested

You may also want to enrich

Same data

Same data, other starting points

Same input

More you can enrich from the same input

Part of Derrick's LinkedIn Lead Enrichment. The feature page collects every recipe in this family and benchmarks Derrick against the alternatives.

Start now. It takes a minute.

No setup, no onboarding call, nothing to migrate. Add Derrick where you already work, build a list or enrich your own, free to start.

Try the app free

or use it in

Google Sheets

Claude

API

Is finding company founded year free?

The free Derrick plan ships 100 credits per month with no credit card required, which is enough to find company founded year for ~100 LinkedIn company URL inputs depending on the lookup type. Paid plans start at €9/month for 4,000 credits if you need more volume.

What's the hit rate for finding company founded year from LinkedIn company URL?

Derrick runs a multi-source lookup rather than querying a single database, so coverage is broader than a single-source provider. The hit rate for company founded year from LinkedIn company URL depends on how uniquely your LinkedIn company URL identifies the target, on geography, and on B2B vs B2C context, so we don't publish a single headline number. When no source returns a confident match, Derrick leaves the cell empty rather than guessing.

Can I bulk-enrich company founded year for thousands of rows?

Yes - Derrick processes batch enrichment runs across thousands of rows in a single job, in the web app or in Google Sheets, with progress tracking and per-row credit accounting. The workflow above scales linearly: 1 row or 10,000 rows, the steps are identical.

How does Derrick compare to other company founded year finders?

Most company founded year tools live as standalone web apps that require CSV export then re-import. Derrick runs in its own web app, natively in Google Sheets, and through the API + MCP, with hit rates competitive with premium providers and pricing 3-10× cheaper than enterprise databases. See the full sales-tool comparison for a side-by-side review.

Do I need an API key to find company founded year from LinkedIn company URL?

No - the Derrick web app and the Google Sheets add-on both work with a simple sign-in (no API keys, no developer account needed). If you'd rather hit the REST API directly or drive enrichment from Claude / ChatGPT via MCP, both are available on the same credit pool. The choice is workflow-dependent, not pricing-dependent.