Reverse Email Lookup: Find the LinkedIn Profile Behind Any Professional Email
Vayne's Reverse Email Lookup combined with our Profile scraper turns any B2B email address into a full LinkedIn profile — with name, job title, company, and 30+ enriched data points. Perfect for reactivating CRM contacts, qualifying inbound leads, and rebuilding lost context.
- Match rate up to 70% on verified B2B emails
- Bulk processing — thousands of emails at once
- Pay only for successful matches — starts at $29 for 10,000 credits
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4.7 on G2 — Trusted by 10,000+ lead gen experts
How to run a reverse email lookup in 3 simple steps
Upload your email list
Drop a CSV of professional email addresses into Vayne — from your CRM, a webinar export, a newsletter list, or any marketing tool. No formatting required.
Let Vayne match each email
Vayne queries LinkedIn in real time for every email, matching it to the correct public profile. Our multi-source engine achieves the highest hit rate on the market.
Download enriched profiles
Get back a clean CSV with LinkedIn URLs - Add our Profile scraper to get the full data ready to push to your CRM or outbound tool.
Full profile data.
From email to full LinkedIn profile in one step
Combine our Reverse Lookup and Profiles scraper features and every matched email returns a complete profile — the same 30+ live fields you'd get from scraping the LinkedIn URL directly. Cleaned, deduplicated, and ready to use
Profile Data
- First name & Last name
- LinkedIn profile URL (vanity URL)
- Headline / Job title
- Skills, languages, certifications
- Number of connections & followers
Job & Company Data
- Current company name
- Company website
- Job title & seniority
- Industry
- Company employee count
Reverse direction.
The only tool purpose-built for email → LinkedIn
Most enrichment tools go one way: LinkedIn profile to email. Vayne flips the direction.
Our algorithm matches professional emails back to the right LinkedIn profile by:
- Cross-referencing multiple public data sources in real time
- Validating each match against the email's domain and format
- Flagging low-confidence matches so you can trust every row
That means you can recover LinkedIn context from any CRM list, webinar export, or inbound form — and re-engage contacts you'd otherwise never reach on LinkedIn.
Process thousands of emails, faster than any competitor
Highest hit rate on verified B2B emails
Bulk processing at scale
Upload thousands of emails in one CSV
Credits only consumed on successful matches
Vayne's reverse lookup engine is optimized for bulk B2B workflows. Upload a CSV of 10,000 emails and let Vayne process them in the background — even if you close your computer. You're only charged for the matches we actually find, so there's no waste on invalid or personal emails.
Privacy-first, GDPR-aligned technology.
Compliant email enrichment — built for B2B workflows
- Live data from public LinkedIn profiles — no purchased databases
- GDPR compliant — legitimate business interest for B2B outreach
- Emails never resold or shared with third parties
- Cloud-based processing — no browser extensions required
- Full audit trail of every match for your compliance team
LLM ready.
Automate your email enrichment pipeline with our API
For teams that want to plug reverse lookup directly into their stack, our full REST API gives you everything you need:
- Submit emails for reverse lookup programmatically
- Poll results or receive them via webhook
- Check remaining credits
- Retrieve enriched profiles as CSV or JSON
- Integrate with n8n, Make, Zapier, or your own SaaS
💡 Pro tip: Copy our entire API documentation and paste it into your favorite LLM (like Claude Code) to build an integration in minutes.
Trusted by 10,000+ lead generation experts
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Great for building qualitative prospecting lists on LinkedIn! Coupled with “Linked Helper” it saves me a lot of time.
YanisGrowth maker
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Vayne saves me a lot of time with the ability to scrape 2500+ profiles and export scheduling. Perfect for my SDR team and sales people.
MartinFounder
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Very appreciable automatic file cleaning, significant time-saving.
LaetitiaSales director
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Frequently asked questions about reverse email lookup
- What is a reverse email lookup?
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A reverse email lookup takes a professional email address and finds the LinkedIn profile of the person behind it. Unlike traditional enrichment tools that go from LinkedIn to email, Vayne goes the other way — turning an old CRM list, webinar export, or inbound lead into a full LinkedIn profile you can act on.
- How accurate is Vayne's reverse email lookup?
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Vayne achieves up to a 70% match rate on verified B2B emails — the highest on the market. Every match comes with a confidence score so you know exactly how reliable each row is. We don't handle personal emails at the moment (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) as they have a much lower match rates because they're harder to tie to a single professional identity. This way you avoid paying for false positive.
- What data do I get for each matched email?
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The reverse lookup gives you the LinkedIn profile URL - you can combine it then with our Profile Scraper to get the full LinkedIn profile: first name, last name, LinkedIn URL, current job title, company name, company website, industry, seniority, employee count, open profile status, number of connections, skills, languages, and certifications. It's the same data you'd get from scraping the LinkedIn URL directly.
- Do I only pay for successful matches?
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Yes. Credits are only consumed when Vayne returns a valid match. If an email can't be tied to a LinkedIn profile, you don't pay for it. This makes Vayne far more cost-effective than competitors that charge per email processed.
- Is reverse email lookup GDPR compliant?
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Yes. Vayne performs live lookups against public LinkedIn profiles — we don't maintain or resell a database of personal data. Reverse lookup is typically covered under legitimate business interest for B2B outreach, and we provide a full audit trail of every match for your compliance team.
- Can I process thousands of emails at once?
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Absolutely. Upload a CSV of any size and Vayne processes emails in bulk in the background — even if you close your browser. Expect roughly 6 minutes per 1,000 emails, and come back to download the enriched CSV when it's ready.
- What are the best use cases for reverse email lookup?
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Reactivating old CRM contacts where the LinkedIn URL was never captured, qualifying inbound leads from webinars or content downloads, rebuilding LinkedIn context on newsletter subscribers, enriching form fills with job title and company data, and preparing outbound campaigns that use both email and LinkedIn.
- Can I automate reverse lookup via API?
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Yes. Vayne offers a full REST API for submitting emails, polling results, receiving webhooks, and checking credits. You can integrate it directly into n8n, Make, Zapier, your CRM, or any custom SaaS in minutes.
- What happens to emails that can't be matched?
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Unmatched emails are returned in the output CSV with a clear status flag — no credits consumed, no false positives. That way you can segment your list, re-run lookups later, or route unmatched contacts into a different outreach channel.
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