Category Archives: milestone

Major Milestone: Over 50 million companies (& a sneak peak at the future)

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

TLDR: OpenCorporates smashes through the 50 million companies mark, and starts work mapping corporate networks. We’re pleased to announce that this weekend we smashed through the 50 million companies mark, with the addition of Thailand, West Virginia and several smaller territories (e.g. … Continue reading →

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Announcing version 0.2 of the OpenCorporates API

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

We’re pleased to announce the new version of our API (version 0.2), with some significant enhancements and improvements. In particular, you can now  search the 39 million company directors and officers that OpenCorporates has (with more being added every day).  Here’s … Continue reading →

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Announcing the OpenCorporates Advisory Board… governance with teeth

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

Right from the word go, we wanted OpenCorporates to be a different kind of organisation, and we had three core goals we wanted to achieve. First, we wanted it to have as its central mission the opening of company data for … Continue reading →

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Major milestones: 40m companies, 50+ jurisdictions, moving out of alpha, getting respectable

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

We did it – last week we went over the 40 million companies mark, with the addition of our 52st jurisdiction: Mauritius. As well as being quite a significant milestone in itself, we’re also using this as an excuse to … Continue reading →

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OpenCorporates: The directors’ cut

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

One of the most often requested features for OpenCorporates, especially by journalists, is for us to extract information about the directors and officers for the over 35 million companies we’ve opened up. And as Alex Howard reported on O’Reilly Radar … Continue reading →

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One year on: 10 times bigger, masses more data… and a new API

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

Was it just a year ago that we launched OpenCorporates, after just a couple months’ coding? When we opened up over 3 million companies and allowed searching across multiple jurisdictions (admittedly there were just three of them to start off … Continue reading →

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Major milestone: now over 20 million companies

Posted on August 1, 2011 by

Well, that didn’t take too long. It was barely 3 months ago that OpenCorporates hit 10 million companies, and in what seems like no time at all we’ve doubled that. In that time, we’ve: Added important countries such as Spain … Continue reading →

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