OpenCorporates: The largest open database of companies in the world. What, how, and where next?
13 March 2014
Chris Taggart is the Co-founder and CEO of OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world. OpenCorporates is revolutionising access to and reuse of company data, making it not just freely available on the web, but giving access to the underlying data through its API and with a licence that allows free and open reuse. Since its launch in December 2010, OpenCorporates has grown from 3 million companies in 3 jurisdictions to over 60 million in 80 jurisdictions.
Chris Taggart was originally a magazine journalist and publisher, and is an experienced and successful entrepreneur, having started and grown several successful companies. He has been working exclusively in the field of open government and public sector information since 2009.
