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Lighten your load
Investigations into financial crime, corruption or fraud can be and frustrating.
Often it means unpicking opaque and cross-border corporate structures or uncovering hidden details or patterns in multiple company records.
Only by having an open and complete view of the company universe can you join the dots.
Find the truth faster
We provide the data you need to dig deep, connect the dots and find the truth.
Search the world’s largest open legal-entity database or plug the data direct into your analytics or investigations processes.
Fresh, standardized, fully auditable information, underpinned by our Legal-Entity Data Principles, this is data you can trust.
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.
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Leading newspapers and investigative-journalist groups in USA and Europe rely on OpenCorporates
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Our Data Principles set the industry standard for legal-entity data
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Case studies
Miami Herald
Covid relief funds: How OpenCorporates’ data helped expose exploitation of the US Paycheck Protection Program
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