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How to search for company information online for free?

In your studies or work, you may need to find and research information about a company or gather company intelligence efficiently. In this article, we will introduce some websites that can provide company information for free.

1. Dun & Bradstreet

https://www.dnb.com/

Dun & Bradstreet is a business intelligence and credit agency that provides information on millions of businesses worldwide.

Dun & Bradstreet

2. LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a social media networking platform used primarily for recruiting and showcasing your IT skills, but also includes all industry-related information. One of the unique features the site offers is a company search.

The site deserves credit for updating companies most frequently, as there are countless companies and countless changes on a daily basis, and keeping track of them and updating them accordingly is not an easy task.

Registered members can search for company information based on search criteria such as company size, employment opportunities, location, industry, and Fortune 500.

Any information that is remotely connected to the company will be mentioned here, you just need a keen eye to check all the information.

3. Open Corporates

http://opencorporates.com

It is probably the largest free database of company records in the world.

Open Corporates

4. aiHit

https://www.aihitdata.com/

aiHit provides company data for business information, market research, and lead generation enterprises. It creates and maintains a database of more than 18 million company profiles from around the world, with new profiles being added at a rate of more than 500,000 per month. aiHit is the world's leading provider of company profiles, and is the world's largest provider of information about companies and organizations.

It extracts structured data from company and organization websites to create rich profiles that include a description of the organization, names and titles of key people executives, contact information, customers, investors and more.

aiHit

5. Tianyancha

https://www.tianyancha.com/

Tianyancha, China's leading business query platform, has included information on nearly 300 million social entities in China, including enterprises, institutions, foundations, schools, law firms and so on.

It contains more than 300 data dimensions, for example, listing information, enterprise background, enterprise development, judicial risk, business risk, operation status, intellectual property rights and so on.

Tianyancha

6. Qichacha

https://www.qcc.com/

Founded in March 2014 and backed by China's leading venture capitalists, Qichacha is a pioneer in delivering private and public company business data, credit information and analytics to Chinese consumers/professionals via mobile devices.

As the world's first mobile one-stop enterprise credit information query platform, Qichacha provides domestic and international users with fast query enterprise information services. The total number of platform users has reached 300 million in 2021, covering data of over 200 million domestic and 200 million foreign enterprises, with the total number of queries exceeding 10 trillion.

Qichacha



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