Impact – OpenCorporates

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 / Impact

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

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

Commercial / Community / Data / Impact

Shell corporations: Paper companies with real consequences

You know that game where a ball is placed under one of three cups and they get shuffled around until you lose track of where the ball is? Well, imagine that ball is actually billions of dollars, and instead of cups, it’s companies. Companies that don’t actually do anything. Companies that only exist on paper. Welcome to the world of shell corporations.

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October 10, 2024

Community / Data / Impact

Profiting from panic: Those who took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic was a global crisis on a level most of us had never experienced before. While there are plenty of stories about how it brought out the best in some of us, it also exposed the worst in others.

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September 16, 2024

Community / Data / Impact

How OpenCorporates helped nurture the open company data ecosystem

OpenCorporates was founded over 12 years ago, and since then has become the default source for trusted legal entity data. It has also directly and indirectly inspired countless companies and projects in the open company data space. This document highlights some of these, and our relationship with them.

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September 6, 2024