United States company records, by state
The United States has no single federal company register: company records are filed with each state. Choose the state of registration to search and buy a US Company Record, with its registry filings. Registry-only, not aggregated, not resold.
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United States at a glance
- Documents included
- Set by each state register
- Controlling entities
- Recorded at state level
- Shareholders & beneficial owners
- Recorded at state level
- How to order
- Search by state, then by company name
- Price per record
- Priced by state
One country, fifty-plus registers
Company registration in the United States is administered by each state's Secretary of State, not by a federal registry. To retrieve a US company record, start from the state where the company is registered — the search picker lets you drill down to the state and buy the record with its filings.
State business registries (Secretaries of State)
The United States has no national commercial register. A company is formed under the law of an individual state, and the filing office is a state agency, in most states the Secretary of State's office. Federal guidance from the Small Business Administration confirms that LLCs, corporations, partnerships and nonprofit corporations register with state agencies, and that the federal Employer Identification Number is a tax identifier issued for federal tax purposes, not a company registration. What a company record contains, and which documents can be obtained, is set by each state register.
Delaware carries particular weight in the state system. Its Division of Corporations, part of the Delaware Department of State, reports that more than 2,000,000 business entities have made Delaware their legal home, including more than 66 percent of the Fortune 500, and it provides entity search, status checks and certificates of good standing. For public companies, the SEC's EDGAR database provides free public access to registration statements, prospectuses and periodic reports filed on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, together with event reports on Form 8-K.
Beneficial ownership sits outside the state registers. Under FinCEN's final rule, effective 14 August 2026, US companies are exempt from beneficial ownership information reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act, and only certain foreign companies registered to do business in the United States must report. Shareholder and beneficial-owner details therefore appear on the public record only where a state register publishes them.
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A Company Record is the KYB report for one company plus the standard set of official registry documents for its jurisdiction, in a single purchase. It is retrieved from the official register at the time of purchase, not from a cached copy. Search by company name, then pay once by card: no subscription, no minimum. See a sample report, the document types, pricing and the FAQ.
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