Researched, not scraped
A researcher confirms the company is trading and matches the registry entry to the real business before it goes in. Dormant shells and duplicate filings are removed rather than counted.
Private Company Directory
The companies no screen will surface for you.
Most private companies have never raised, never sold and never appeared in a deal database. They exist in filings and on their own websites, and nowhere else. This is a directory of those companies, built one at a time.
SEEKCOMPANIES / RECORD CHECKED RECORD
Illustrative example, not a real company
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Manchester · Private limited Industrial services
Registry IDRecorded
Trading addressSeparate field
Officers2 on file
ContactEmail & phone
What's in a record
Enough to act on it.
A registry export gives you a name, a number and an address that is often an accountant's office. Every record here carries enough to tell whether the company is worth contacting, and how.
01
Who they are
Registered name and any trading name, legal form, incorporation date, and the registry identifier that makes the record checkable.
02
What they do
The activity in the company’s own words, alongside the standard industry code it files under — because the two frequently disagree.
03
Where they are
Registered office and, where it differs, the address the business actually trades from. Recorded as two fields, never merged into one.
04
How to reach them
Website, the general company email, switchboard number, and the directors or officers the company itself puts on the public record.
Depth varies by jurisdiction, because filing requirements do, and we will publish that detail on the coverage page rather than average it away. Fields a company does not publish are left blank, never estimated.
How it's built
Checked by hand, one company at a time.
Bulk registry data is cheap and mostly noise: dormant entities, holding shells, dissolved companies and duplicates outnumber trading businesses in almost every jurisdiction.
What the company itself publishes
Activity, address and officers come from the company’s filings and its own website. Revenue and headcount appear only where they are filed or published, and are never estimated.
Bought once, yours to keep
The plan is a one-time purchase — no subscription, no seat count, no credits to run down. Pay once, download the spreadsheet, and keep it.
What it won't tell you
The limits, stated up front.
The fastest way to judge a company database is by what it refuses to claim. Here is what this one will not.
- Revenue and headcount
- Only where a company files or publishes them. Small-company filing exemptions mean most private companies disclose neither, and a modelled figure is worse than a blank one because you cannot tell it apart from a fact.
- Ultimate ownership
- Recorded where a register of beneficial owners exists and is public in that jurisdiction. Where it is not, the field stays blank rather than being reconstructed from a shareholder chain.
- Whether they want to sell
- Unknowable from public sources, so not claimed. A directory tells you a company exists and what it does; it cannot tell you the owner is ready.
Who it's for
Built for people mapping a real market.
Buyers building target lists
Find the companies that fit a thesis and never appear in a deal database, because they have never done a deal.
Corporate finance and research teams
Map an industry from the bottom up instead of re-deriving the same twenty names from the same three trade publications.
Sales and partnership teams
Build a territory list against what companies actually do, rather than the industry code they registered under a decade ago.
Not on sale yet
Tell us which market you need.
Research is under way and markets will be released as they are finished. Say which country and sector matter to you and we will tell you where that stands.