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Read more about the article OpenCorporates Achieves ISO/IEC 27701:2025 Certification for Privacy Information Management
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OpenCorporates Achieves ISO/IEC 27701:2025 Certification for Privacy Information Management

OpenCorporates, the largest open database of legal entity data in the world, today announced that it has achieved certification to ISO/IEC 27701:2025, the international standard for privacy information management systems (PIMS). The certification was awarded following an independent audit by DNV, which recorded no non-conformities against the standard. It sits alongside the company's existing ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for information security, making OpenCorporates a dual ISO certification holder for the first time in its history.

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September 3, 2026
Read more about the article The US has stopped collecting who owns its companies, and no one can fill that gap
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The US has stopped collecting who owns its companies, and no one can fill that gap

On 11 August, FinCEN issued a final rule permanently removing the requirement for US companies and US persons to report who owns them. It also confirmed that it will delete records already in the database wherever it believes they belong to a US person. The Washington Post covered it the same day. So the gap is permanent, and the brief federal record of who owns American companies is being erased.

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August 20, 2026
Read more about the article The registered agent called “Located In”
Data / Entity Verification

The registered agent called “Located In”

Every company register insists on a registered agent: a name and a street address where lawsuits and state letters can reach someone who will actually notice. The OpenCorporates API exposes this twice. Once on the company record, as agent_name. Once in the officers list, as whoever holds the agent role. I wanted to see what edge cases of those names, so I searched the officers endpoint for a phrase instead of a person. I typed LOCATED IN. The API came back with two thousand and eleven matches.

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July 22, 2026
Read more about the article The church incorporated in the year one
Data / Entity Verification

The church incorporated in the year one

The other week I was testing a company data API, running harmless searches against Connecticut to see how the search behaved. I asked for companies whose names contain the word "New". Back came the usual spread of LLCs and property vehicles, and then a result that literally stopped me mid-scroll: ST. PETER'S CHURCH OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. Company number 0065179. Status: Active. Company type: Special Chartered. Incorporation date: 3 January 0001 (over 2025 years ago).

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July 8, 2026
Read more about the article Mapping innovation in energy startups: A data fusion journey with OpenCorporates and Semantic Scholar
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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
Read more about the article Delaware is “losing incorporations”? Our data shows a different story
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Delaware is “losing incorporations”? Our data shows a different story

Delaware’s incorporations are still growing in absolute terms. Our data shows Delaware’s total recorded companies rising from 5.02m (Nov 2023) to 5.30m (Nov 2024) to 5.62m (Nov 2025), a ~10% increase over two years. The real change is in where new, small entities (especially LLCs) are being formed. Our December 2024 blog series documents that Wyoming overtook Delaware in new incorporations on a per‑capita basis, powered by a nationwide explosion in LLCs. High‑profile “DEXIT” reincorporations are happening, but they don’t equal an overall collapse. After court‑driven flashpoints, some large companies announced moves (e.g., Tesla and SpaceX), a visible but numerically limited subset of total formations.

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December 16, 2025
Read more about the article Company registers: Why penalties do and don’t matter
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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

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