OpenCorporates is a website that shares data on corporations under the copyleft Open Database License.

The company, OpenCorporates Ltd,[b][3] was incorporated on 18 December 2010[2] by Chris Taggart and Rob McKinnon, and the website was officially launched on 20th.

[4] Data is sourced from national business registries in 140 jurisdictions, and presented in a standardised form.

[7] Vice President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes said the site "is the kind of resource the (Digital) Single Market needs and it is encouraging to see that it is being built.

[10] In July 2015, OpenCorporates was a finalist in both the Business and Publisher categories at the Open Data Institute Awards.