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Foundations you can build on
Success requires not just great technology but also great data.
Applications that involve customer or supplier verification, risk assessment, corporate investigations, or even B2B sales and marketing, depend on strong foundations: accurate, reliable legal-entity data.
That's where we come in.
It shouldn't be hard to get legal-entity data you can trust
And yet it is. Legal-entity information is dispersed across hundreds of business registers that are hard to navigate and impossible to access at scale. Traditional company-data aggregators are no longer the answer either, given their opaque processes and provenance.
Verifiable accuracy is more important than ever, and you should expect more.
You need data built on deep expertise, rigorous data models and well-founded, forward-looking principles. Data sourced direct from primary sources, curated with clear decision-making and no hidden bias, and defined by open not proprietary identifiers and standards. Data you know you can trust.
OpenCorporates was born out of the same frustrations you experience every day
We believe a fairer, more prosperous and sustainable society can only be achieved with greater corporate transparency.
Since 2010 we’ve been working with government agencies, NGOs and public-benefit groups to improve the quality and accessibility of the foundational legal-entity data on which you depend.
Today we offer the world's largest open legal-entity database, providing a single unified set of company records from over 140 government registries and other official sources around the world.
Over 5 million
searches made every month
Trusted
80% of North America and Europe's largest banks and leading technology providers use OpenCorporates
Standard in data trust
Our Data Principles set the industry standard for legal-entity data
We provide the foundational data you build on
Entity verification
Put your customer and supplier onboarding on a firm foundation
Investigations
Join the dots to uncover crime, corruption, financial, legal or regulatory or ESG risk
Data management
Create a foundational spine to for your master-data management, entity resolution and data cleansing
Business discovery
Augment prospect intelligence with unique company and officer insights
Three simple steps to transform your applications
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