The Open Database Of The Corporate World
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Hundreds of organisations rely on our API & Bulk Data
As the largest, open database of companies in the world, our business is making high-quality, official company data openly available. Data that can be trusted, accessed, analysed and interrogated when and how it’s needed.
OpenCorporates’ API plans give you direct, real-time access to the underlying structured data, with powerful queries and results as JSON or XML, ready to enhance data on demand or power onboarding or investigation workflows.
Generally, we sell data by global region e.g. North America or Europe with two different license types depending on how the data is going to be used (internal or external distribution). We deliver bulk data on a monthly or quarterly basis via SFTP account. Contact our commercial team to receive a global sample file.
We are the world experts on company registers and official company data.
Open access allows anomalies, errors, issues to be discovered faster, creating better quality data for everyone.
Our high-efficient tech means OpenCorporates’ data is better quality, fresher, and more efficiently collected than traditional competitors.
Much wrong-doing is hiding in plain sight. By de-siloing official data OpenCorporates has become an essential tool for fraud identification, asset recovery or forensic accounting.
We have hundreds of API clients using our data for verification purposes, either as part of a workflow process or for on-boarding.
We provide a backbone of legal entities, clearly modelled and provenanced, providing a foundational data source, on which you can build with confidence.
We have 1.2 million users every month, ranging from banks, NGOs, journalists, law enforcement, corporate investigators and due diligence professionals, and businesses themselves.
We are the ‘Company registry’ for the world, open for everyone
All our data comes from primary public sources – we don’t buy any third-party data, and are transparent about – meaning users can rely on OpenCorporates data.
We are the largest open database of companies in the world. We have 190+m companies from 140 jurisdictions, all brought together into a standardised global schema.
Unlike the traditional ‘black-box’ data providers, OpenCorporates provides open (non-proprietary) identifiers based on the identifiers issued by the official source.
We’re clear about where we got our data, and when we got it, unlike the ‘black-box’ data of the traditional proprietary providers.
We only collect data from the official source itself, we do not use third party data providers to access this data, and we provide direct line of sight to the original source.
Combined with the above principles, our custom-built data collection, QA and reconciliation technology gives us a significant competitive advantage over legacy business information companies.
Join our webinar on 7 October to find out why product managers increasingly choose to integrate transparent company data into their products – with the provenance, freshness & reliability to help their users identify risk & analyse trends.
OpenCorporates’ is the world’s leading source of transparent company data. For 50 years, the data industry has been dominated by opaque data that’s not well-defined, has no provenance, uses proprietary identifiers and has poor data-quality feedback loops. Now, in a data-centric world, this is no longer fit for purpose, and what is needed is transparent data – clearly defined, with full provenance, open identifiers, and available publicly for the best high-quality feedback loops.
Corporate transparency is a critical requirement for a fairer society. To ensure that everyone knows exactly who they are working with – and working for. To tackle corruption and criminality. To protect our democracy. To create a trusted business environment we want to work in – and a society we’d all like to live in.
As the largest open database of companies in the world, our business is making transparent, official company data available to all. Data that can be accessed, analysed and interrogated when and how it’s needed. Data that the world needs.
We aim to be the foundational source for company data globally with a positive impact on society via the OpenCorporates Principles. As part of this, our data is made freely available to the public via our website without charge, and we provide access to our data products to journalists, NGOs and academics for public benefit research free of charge.
We’re a tech firm with mission and ambition. As a scaling company we’re experiencing rapid growth and transformation and have the career opportunities to match. Working here is an experience built on our values and it’s driven by people from all kinds of backgrounds. We are a remote-first company and working flexibly is available to everyone.
Despite the pandemic, 2020 was a good year for OpenCorporates. We increased our data offering, more people used our data than ever before and we made a powerful, public case for corporate transparency. Find out about the strides we’ve made towards becoming the world’s dominant source of core company information.
Trust – our higher purpose keeps us open for good
OpenCorporates’ mission is to deliver genuine corporate transparency for the world – collecting and making public data on the existence, ownership and activities of companies and businesses, and the people connected with them, for the benefit of business and society.
We aim to be the foundational source for company data globally with a positive impact on society via the OpenCorporates Principles, overseen by the OpenCorporates Trust.
As part of these principles, the company data held by OpenCorporates is made freely available to the general public via the OpenCorporates website without charge. We also provide access to our data products to journalists, NGOs and academics for public benefit research free of charge.
OpenCorporates lists companies on its website based on public records published by company registers, and has no connection with any of them. We would recommend that you contact the company through the information available (registered address/telephone number/email address) or contact the register directly.
If we are informed that a public company register has removed (or limited access to) certain information about a person concerned with a company due to exceptional circumstances (for example, because of a serious risk to personal safety), we will:
