Real-time API that checks a European company against its official register and returns status, registered address, officers, ownership summary and a match confidence score.
Data product · Listing updated 11 Nov 2026
Europe
Median 450 ms from cache; live register checks take 2–8 seconds
Covers 48 million companies in 33 registers
Startups, Small and medium businesses, Mid-market, Enterprises
Live and cached queries against official European business registers
On-demand register lookups with daily-refreshed cache as default
Verify a business in one call during onboarding, with the register evidence attached.
Send a company name, country and optionally a registration number or address. The API returns the best-matching registered entity with a match status (verified, partial or not found), a confidence score, the legal name, registration number, status, legal form, registered address, officers and roles, and an ownership summary from the Grundwerk graph. Responses include the time the register was checked and a link to the source entry or extract where the register provides one, so analysts can keep an audit trail.
The API covers the same 33 registers as our registry dataset. Most calls are answered from a daily-refreshed cache in about 450 ms; when you request a live check, we query the register directly, which typically takes two to eight seconds depending on the country. Matching combines registration-number lookups with fuzzy name and address matching tuned per language. Pricing is per verification, with volume tiers and a platform fee that includes a monthly allowance. A sandbox with test companies is available.
13 fields as documented by Grundwerk Company Data.
| Field | Type | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| query_name | string | Company name supplied in the request | — |
| query_country | string | Country supplied in the request | — |
| match_status | string | verified, partial or not_found | — |
| match_confidence | number | Score from 0 to 1 | — |
| grundwerk_id | string | Matched entity ID | — |
| legal_name | string | Registered legal name | — |
| registration_number | string | Register number | — |
| status | string | Current register status | — |
| registered_address | string | Registered office address | — |
| officers | json | Officer names and roles | — |
| ownership_summary | json | Direct parent, ultimate parent and disclosed beneficial owners | — |
| register_checked_at | datetime | When the register data was last confirmed | — |
| source_url | string | Link to the register entry or extract | — |
Real rows from the provider's sample file. Personal data is masked before anything is shown.
| query_namestring | query_countrystring | match_statusstring | match_confidencestring | legal_namestring | statusstring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Example Bau | DE | verified | 0.97 | Example Bau GmbH | active |
| Demo Trading Ltd | GB | partial | 0.74 | Demo Trading Limited | dissolved |
| Sample Café Lyon | FR | not_found | 0.00 | null | null |
Prices in EUR, as published by Grundwerk Company Data
platform fee including 600 verifications
per verification above the monthly allowance
per verification above 50,000 a month
Converted amounts use DataStoa display rates and are approximate. Grundwerk Company Data quotes the final price, taxes and terms.
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Time coverage: 2010 to present.
Provider-reported
Latency: Median 450 ms from cache; live register checks take 2–8 seconds
DataStoa has not audited these figures. Ask the provider how they are measured, or test them on a sample.
The licence is agreed directly between you and Grundwerk Company Data. This summary is provider-reported; the linked terms prevail.
Not listed: use in commercial products, AI / ML model training, AI retrieval and grounding, redistribution allowed, marketing and outreach, research use. Ask Grundwerk Company Data if you need any of these.
Official European company registers, ownership and KYB in one schema
Grundwerk collects company records from 33 official European business registers and maps them to one schema with stable entity IDs. Compliance, credit and sales teams use it to verify companies, trace ownership and build accurate account lists.
Also available on: Snowflake Marketplace, Microsoft Azure, Databricks Marketplace
What buyers say about Grundwerk Company Data. Reviews cover the provider, not only this listing.
from 3 reviews
We sent a messy export with duplicates in four languages. They returned registry IDs for most accounts, a duplicate cluster file and a short list of low-confidence matches to review by hand. Finished inside the quoted two weeks.
Anja F., CRM manager, Industrial software vendor
Beneficial-owner access differs a lot by country, and the ownership graph labels exactly where data is official, where it is derived from shareholder filings and where it is missing. That clarity mattered more to us than raw coverage. The API has been stable for eight months.
Pieter V., KYB product owner, Business banking fintech
We used to maintain separate scrapers and contracts for a dozen registers. Grundwerk gives us one schema with the original register reference on every record, which our auditors liked. Officer data is thinner for a few countries and the documentation says so upfront.
Lena M., Head of compliance operations, Payments provider