Find a company

Search is where every other endpoint starts. Give it a name or a registration number and it returns ranked candidates with their company numbers, status and jurisdiction. A number resolves exactly. A name is matched on a normalised form, so accents, punctuation and small misspellings do not stop a match.

Each result carries the identifier you need to go further:

• jurisdiction and company_number, the exact key for the profile, officers and verify endpoints
• legal_name, as the register writes it
• status, so a dissolved entity is visible before you act on it
• match.type, which says whether the hit came from the identifier or from the name

Search a Swedish register for "Klarna":

curl "https://api.corpoapi.com/v1/search?q=Klarna&jurisdiction=se&limit=5"

One of the results returned, captured from our own end-to-end run on 15 October 2026:

{
  "jurisdiction": "se",
  "company_number": "7720001457",
  "company_number_scheme": "SE-ORGNR",
  "legal_name": "Nordic Build Supply AB",
  "status": "dissolved",
  "address": { "line1": "Box 32", "city": "ARVIKA", "postcode": "67101", "country": "SE" },
  "match": { "type": "name_prefix", "identifier": null }
}

The same call reported total_estimate of 134 and has_more true, with a cursor for the next page. The exact same run also confirmed an identifier search: passing the number 5560295197 returns that company first with match.type of id.

Search is free on every plan and is never billed. Use it to turn a messy name into a company number, then fetch the profile or run verify against the number you found. An ambiguous result, where several companies match closely, is returned with the candidates and is also free.