VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--How do you know whether a foreign company is financially and legally safe to do business with? Businesses can now for the first time research and verify potential customers or business partners in other countries, simply by checking companies on kompany - https://www.kompany.com/. Today the online service has launched integrated data from over 21 million companies in more than 20 countries.
kompany empowers professionals with easy access to international business background information including company profiles, credit-worthiness, legal status and other shareholder data. Company reports are delivered to users instantly, regardless of which country the data is accessed from. The service aggregates content from official government sources such as the UK's Companies House or the European Business Register and private credit rating agencies to generate the report – the first time this depth of information has been available on a cross-border basis.
“For kompany’s business model the concept of Big Data, meaning the processing of large data volumes to better understand and enhance all types of management and decision making, plays an important role", explains Co-CEO Bernhard Hoetzl.
“There is a huge amount of information on businesses available online and hidden in databases, but the situation is different in every country. So far, it has been difficult to gather and structure this data and to make it available to everybody – our service aims to close this gap“.
The site has been designed with simply user experience in mind and tailored to the information and reporting needs of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and independent entrepreneurs, who have always been excluded from this type of information by cost, language and the ability to access data archives in foreign countries. With kompany also launching their local website in Germany today, providing in-depth reports on German companies, the service is well on its way to cover the most important European markets. Even greater depths of data will be added over the coming months including information on US businesses.
About kompany
kompany was founded in February 2012 by Russell E. Perry, Bernhard Hoetzl, Peter Bainbridge-Clayton and Iris Pittl to provide easy and instant access to international business background information for SMEs and business professionals around the globe.
The start-up is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, where an experienced team of 15 industry professionals is involved in the development of the technology and business behind kompany. The founders and start-up team have been working together in several companies in Europe, South Africa and the US during the past 10+ years, establishing a successful track record in the digital media space.
Examples from kompany's online company check:
Tesco PLC (UK) - https://www.kompany.co.uk/p/00445790
BMW (Germany) - https://www.kompany.de/p/HRB42243+M%C3%9CNCHEN