Today, the day before the Open Government Partnership meeting starts in Brasilia, OpenCorporates is publishing a major new report into access to company data in OGP countries, and the picture is…
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…
Last week OpenCorporates was in Basel at the Financial Stability Board's workshop on Global Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) for corporate entities, as a member of the advisory panel. It's worth giving…
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…
One of the things we're most proud of with OpenCorporates is the way we quietly get on with making the world's biggest open database of companies bigger and better, adding territories with…
This weekend, the EU published its public draft of its Business Vocabulary (along with Person and Location), to help make it easier for organisations within Europe, including governments themselves, to…
Just before Christmas, we introduced the new OpenCorporates API, which allows access to all the information in OpenCorporates, including allowing searching. We said then that we'd give some examples of…
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…
From the beginning it's been our goal that OpenCorporates isn't just another business data service. We've got no interest in being a more modern Bloomberg or Dun & Bradstreet – the goal…