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.
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.
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.
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.
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.