Free business entity search: look up any registered company

This tool searches over 375 million registered businesses across 200+ countries by name or registration number, against records compiled from official government trade registers. A result shows the legal name, entity type, registration number, address, industry classification, founding year and status, plus employee and revenue figures where the register or our enrichment carries them.

Unlike a state or national register, which only knows its own territory, one search here covers every jurisdiction at once. That matters the moment a counterparty operates across borders: the entity you are checking may be registered somewhere you would not think to look.

A business entity is the legal form a business is registered under: the thing that signs contracts, owes taxes and can be sued. Common entity types are the limited liability company (LLC in the US, Ltd in the UK, GmbH in Germany, B.V. in the Netherlands), the corporation, the partnership and the sole proprietorship. The entity type determines who is liable for the business's obligations and what it must publish about itself.

That is why an entity search is the first step of due diligence: it tells you whether the name on the contract matches a real registered entity, what legal form it has, whether it is still active, and which registration number to reference. A trading name alone proves nothing; the entity behind it is what counts.