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The largest open database

• f companies in the world

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A simple (but huge) goal An entry for every company (legal entity) in the world

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p a n i e s i n l e s s t h a n 3 y e a r s

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The simple (powerful) search

Not to be underestimated Massively reduces friction (how long will it take you to find and search multiple jurisdictions) Allows what if questions Potentially generates stories in its own right

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T r a d e m a r k s

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O f fi c i a l n

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for UK, Spain, Ireland, Luxembourg

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Global directors/officers search

We’re now importing & indexing company directors &

• fficers,

...allowing search by name, & finding links between them and other companies

similarly named

• ther resources

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All Openly Licensed, allowing free reuse, even commercially

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• Thousands of user-contributed data
• Over 500 registered users of the API

The platform

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Platform enables the outside world to come up with cool insights/uses for your data

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And now we’re tackling corporate structures...

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And now we’re tackling corporate structures...

Enabled by a grant from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation

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finding new insights

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...and errors too

no such company

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What a modern financial company looks like

(highly simplified & truncated views)

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What a modern financial company looks like

(highly simplified & truncated views)

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What a modern financial company looks like

(highly simplified & truncated views)

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What a modern financial company looks like

(highly simplified & truncated views)

private unlimited company

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...from dispersed public sources + the crowd

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...from dispersed public sources + the crowd

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...from dispersed public sources + the crowd

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...from dispersed public sources + the crowd

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...from dispersed public sources + the crowd

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The company that wants to know your network... every friend... every interaction

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffmcneill/5260815552/sizes/l/

why is this important?

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Facebook, Inc Pinnacle Sweden AB Vitesse LLC Facebook Operations LLC Facebook Ireland Limited Edge Network Services Limited Andale Acquisition Corp

(and turned into data)

This is what we got from their SEC filings as text

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Facebook Ireland Limited Edge Network Services Limited Pinnacle Sweden AB Vitesse LLC Facebook Operations LLC Andale Acquisition Corp

Then we started investigating

Facebook, Inc

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Facebook Ireland Limited Edge Network Services Limited

Then we started investigating

Facebook, Inc

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Facebook, Inc

Edge Network Services Limited Facebook Ireland Limited

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Facebook, Inc

Facebook Cayman Holdings Unlimited IV Facebook Cayman Holdings Unlimited II Facebook Cayman Holdings Unlimited lll Facebook Ireland Holdings Randomus Investments Limited Edge Network Services Limited Facebook Ireland Limited Facebook International Holdings II Ltd Facebook International Holdings I Ltd Facebook Cayman Holdings Unlimited I

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Working with the community for the public benefit*

*and with an innovative open-data business model

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And did we mention we’re 100%...

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