How to Find Company Founded Year from LinkedIn Profile URL?

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

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Used by 31,000+ B2B sales teams Updated February 2026

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.

In the context of LinkedIn profile URL-based prospecting, company founded year sits downstream: you start from the LinkedIn profile URL as your lookup key, the resolver maps it to the matching record in the source graph, and the company founded year value is returned as part of the enrichment payload. The accuracy of the company founded year you get back depends on how cleanly your LinkedIn profile URL input identifies the underlying entity.

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.

Teams that already have LinkedIn profile URL on every record but don't enrich company founded year effectively waste the upstream investment. The cost of NOT having company founded year compounds: every outbound campaign without it drops in personalisation; every CRM report without it drops in accuracy.

Why find company founded year from LinkedIn profile URL?

A LinkedIn profile URL is the gold-standard input for resolving company founded year: it uniquely identifies the person inside the LinkedIn graph, eliminates name collisions, and gives the resolver direct access to the prospect's current job title and company affiliation. Hit-rates from LinkedIn profile URL usually exceed every other input type for company founded year because LinkedIn itself maintains the freshest professional graph.

Common use cases for company founded year

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

Step 1 - Open Google Sheets and install Derrick

Derrick will allow you to find Company Founded Year in a few clicks without any technical skills. Just install Derrick, open Google Sheet, and launch Derrick. Now you’re ready ! You can also find data such as company tagline,company phone number,company country,company city... Discover Derrick Now

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Step 1 - Open Google Sheets and install Derrick

Enrich Lead Data

Congratulations, you have done the most complicated. Now let's see how to get company founded year from linkedin profile url.In order to Find company founded year With linkedin profile url, You will need to use the Enrich Lead 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 profile URL. Validate the operation by clicking on enrich, and let Derrick do his job.

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Enrich Company Data

Well done, with the previous step !Now you have a lot of fresh data of your lead extract from linkedin such as skills, jobtitle, experience,... and also company Name and company Linkedin Url. If you want to go further you can also do this second step to find more data about the company you target. It's still very easy. Select 'Enrich Profiles' Feature, 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. done !

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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 profile 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 profile 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 profile URL depends on how uniquely your LinkedIn profile 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 Google Sheets job, 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 is the only Google-Sheets-native option (plus 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 profile URL?

No - the Google Sheets add-on works with a one-click 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.