OpenCorporates Communications

Mapping innovation in energy startups: A data fusion journey with OpenCorporates and Semantic Scholar

Today’s energy sector is evolving fast. With thousands of new companies emerging each year, keeping track of innovative startups is both a challenge and an opportunity. So how can investors, policymakers, and researchers quickly identify the most promising ventures, especially those with deep scientific expertise? In this post, I’ll walk through the methodology, share some key findings, and explain how this approach opens new doors for data-driven innovation analysis.

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January 12, 2026

Data Access / General / Partnerships

OpenCorporates’ sample datasets now free on Snowflake Marketplace

We’re excited to announce that you can now access our sample data files for free on Snowflake Marketplace. Below we’ll break down why we made this decision, why we chose to partner with Snowflake, and how you can access the data today.

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January 27, 2025

Fraud Investigations / General / Resources

An explosion of LLCs: the Wyoming angle cont’d

Over a decade ago, Wyoming adopted reforms that changed everything. Shortly after, Wyoming LLCs started becoming well-known outside the US.

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December 18, 2024

Data / Impact

An explosion of LLCs: the Wyoming angle

What’s behind Wyoming’s spectacular rise as a jurisdiction of choice for LLCs?

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December 11, 2024

Data / Impact

The rise and rise of the LLC

Wyoming’s spectacular rise to overtake Delaware in per-capita company incorporations has been powered by what has fast become the dominant legal form in the US, the LLC, a form of limited partnership.

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December 5, 2024

Data / Impact

Wyoming overtakes Delaware for per-capita company incorporations, OpenCorporates data shows

A massive growth in incorporations of LLCs in Wyoming over the past five years has caused it to overtake the historic leader in incorporations, Delaware, according to a new detailed analysis of US company incorporations by OpenCorporates.

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December 4, 2024

Community / Data / Impact / Policy

UK Companies House Strategic Intelligence Assessment: A wake-up call for company registers everywhere

Yesterday, Companies House published their first strategic intelligence assessment. If I'm completely honest, I was rather blown away by it.

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October 25, 2024

Community / Data / Impact / Policy

Company registers: Why penalties do and don’t matter

Last week, the Business Registry Insights group published a fascinating report on penalties issued by legal entity registers around the world. This is, admittedly, a bit wonkish, but at OpenCorporates we are proud to be wonkish about legal entity register data (in fact, a working definition of wonkish could be - unsexy details that matter relating to an unsexy but important subject).

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October 23, 2024

Case studies / Commercial / Data

Enabling trust in dataspaces: Exploring T-Systems and OpenCorporates collaboration

T-Systems and OpenCorporates help customers become trusted partners, facilitating secure data sharing

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April 8, 2024

Community / Data / Impact / Policy

2024: a pivotal year for legal entity data

Significant shifts are happening in the accessibility and scope of company-registry data around the world. In this first of a series of ‘state-of-the nations’ articles, we explore developments in Canada and how it can lose its reputation for “snow-washing”

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March 27, 2024