North Data

Search for people and companies in EU corporate and trade registers + visualize relationships

URL

https://northdata.com

Description

North Data is a business intelligence platform for investigating companies, executives, and financial relationships across 21 European countries (some in beta) + a ‘Tax Havens’ bundle. It aggregates official registry data, court publications, and financial statements, making it a useful resource for financial and corporate OSINT investigations.

Key features and content include:

  1. Company Profiles including:

    • General Information: This includes the company name, address, legal form, registration details, contact information, and identifiers such as VAT numbers.

    • Financial Data: Provides revenue, profit, equity, liabilities, employee numbers, average salaries, and key financial ratios like return on equity and earnings growth.

    • Corporate Structure: Details about subsidiaries, parent companies, affiliated entities, shareholders, and ownership structure.

    • Management and Key Personnel: Information on directors and key executives, historical data on management changes, and significant personnel events.

    • Events and Filings: Covers annual reports, capital changes, mergers and acquisitions, insolvency proceedings, patent registrations, trademark filings, and public funding events.

  2. Advanced Search and Filtering: By industry segment, performance indicators, and events. Full attribute list available here.

  3. Data Accessibility: Free basic access, premium services, and API integration.

  4. Visualization Tools: Plotting financial information and link analysis.

  5. Power Search & EUID look-ups: over 60 field filters (including geo, turnover, ESG keywords, and EUID) with export to CSV/XLSX.

  6. Search & IDs. The Quick Search accepts EUID and VAT IDs directly. For discovery at scale, use Power Search; for automation, use the Data API.

  7. Google Sheets integration: official Apps Script template fetches live indicators into a spreadsheet.

Cost

Accredited journalists can request a complimentary Premium account.

  • Free (no login): Quick lookups and basic company/person pages

  • Premium Service Account: Starts at €49/month or €490/year (single user).

  • API Access: Starts at €500/month and includes all jurisdictions.

  • Data Export: Starts at €2,250/quarter per country.

  • Investigative Accounts for Journalists: Free premium access for journalists upon request and approval (email-based process).

  • No free tier is available; event tracking and data saving are premium-only features.

* Prices from Help-Center billing FAQ; multi-seat & NGO concessions on request.

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Paid

Basic Company Information: Users can access general information about companies, including names, addresses, legal forms, and registration details.

Limited Financial Data: Basic financial figures like revenue and employee numbers are available.

Event Tracking: Basic tracking of significant events like address changes and management updates. (registration required) Save and track data: save searches, create watchlists, and email notifications. (registration required)

Comprehensive Data Access: Includes detailed financial data, performance indicators, equity ratios, liabilities, and more.

Advanced Search and Filtering: Users can utilize advanced filters by industry segments, keywords, and detailed performance indicators.

Event and Filing Insights: Detailed tracking and history of significant company events, including mergers, acquisitions, insolvency filings, and public funding events.

API Access: Premium users can access data via API for integration into other applications and databases.

Visualization Tools: Enhanced tools for analyzing performance indicators and tracking company activities.

Level of difficulty

North Data has a user-friendly search interface and auto-generated relationship diagrams. However, deeper insights (e.g., ownership webs, financial figures, watchlists) require paid access and some experience navigating corporate records.

Requirements

User registration is required to access certain features (see the cost section).

Limitations

  • The interactive graph starts with first-degree relations (company ↔︎ persons/companies). You can click nodes to reveal second-degree links, but bulk export/API still returns first-degree only.

  • Our own tests showed that some financial data or indicators are limited under a free account, are inconsistently updated, or unavailable.

  • Person location may be stale. It’s taken from the trade register at the time of filing and isn’t maintained thereafter.

  • Legal status is standardized. Labels such as Active, Liquidation, and Terminated are North-Data standardizations and may differ from jurisdiction-specific terms.

  • Financials appear only if published. Availability varies by size and filing rules; some figures are estimates (flagged as “uncertain”) or not published.

  • VAT search caveat. VAT isn’t a universal key in every jurisdiction (e.g., constraints in Germany).

  • Network depth. Network graph initially shows first-degree relations; you can click nodes to reveal deeper levels, but CSV / API export is still limited to one hop. API/CSV can include direct relations; multi-hop graphs generally require iterative calls.

Ethical Considerations

  • Individuals with common names or aliases can be misidentified without using additional information about the target, leading to false allegations.

  • North Data surfaces PII from official filings (e.g., addresses, dates of birth). Minimize collection, preserve only what’s necessary, and document your methodology. For open-source investigations standards on accuracy, data minimization, preservation, and privacy, see the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations (OHCHR/UC Berkeley).

  • Data contains sensitive information such as addresses or contact information.

  • It can reveal personal relationships that aren’t widely known. (For example, birthdays, passport information, addresses, etc., depending on the company-related documents retained by governmental bodies.)

Guides and articles

Northdata help center and FAQs (contains detailed usage guides)

API Documentation

For developers

See also

Tool provider

North Data GmbH, Hermannstr. 22, 20095 Hamburg; info@northdata.com

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Page maintainer

Martin Sona

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