Why US coverage is partial
The United States has no single national register of companies: each state keeps its own, and many don't publish theirs as open data. Fuentio reads eight official open sources, so a US company is covered when at least one of them lists it:
- SEC EDGAR: companies that file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in every state. Each has a CIK, the SEC's number for every filer.
- GLEIF: US legal entities that hold an LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, 20 characters), in every state.
- New York: every active corporation registered with the New York Department of State, with its DOS ID.
- Colorado: every business entity registered with the Colorado Department of State, with its entity ID.
- Connecticut: every business registered with the Connecticut Secretary of the State, with its business ID.
- Pennsylvania: every business currently registered with the Pennsylvania Department of State, with its filing number.
- Iowa: every active business entity registered with the Iowa Secretary of State, with its corporation number.
- District of Columbia: every entity registered with the District's Corporations Division, with its file number.
Other states are not covered yet.
What each source can and can't tell you
- EDGAR doesn't state a company's legal status, so for EDGAR records the status is
unknown. Recent filings are never read as "active". - GLEIF gives the entity's status (active or inactive). A lapsed LEI is about its yearly renewal: it never marks a company as closed.
- The New York list holds active corporations only. A corporation that drops out of a later monthly list is shown as inactive, never as dissolved.
- Colorado, Connecticut and the District of Columbia give each entity's status as they record it, dissolved ones included.
- The Pennsylvania and Iowa lists hold current businesses only. One that drops out of a later list is shown as inactive, never as dissolved.
- People: only the names and roles a source publishes, never their addresses.
Look a company up
Search by name with the country set to the US (2 units):
search_companies({"country": "US", "query": "…"})Then look it up by the identifier you get: a CIK, an LEI, or a state register's own ID (New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Iowa or the District of Columbia). A lookup costs 1 unit, as for France and Spain:
lookup_company({"country": "US", "identifier": "…"})curl https://api.fuentio.com/v1/companies/US/…A "not found" in the US
A US not_found means "not in the sources we cover", never "this company doesn't exist". The answer carries a note that says so.
Where every fact on this page comes from, with its licence: our sources.
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