- North America
- California
North America
Beta
California
Company data from the California business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads California Secretary of State, bizfileOnline, FCA Financial Instruments Reference Data, ESMA Financial Instruments Reference Data and ISO Market Identifier Codes and returns the company profile, legal representatives and other key persons of California companies through one API.
What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.
Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).
Datapoints
- Company profileYes
- Legal representativesYes
- Other key personsYes
Documents
- Register extractYes
- Articles of associationYes
- FinancialsNo
- UBO extractNo
- bizfileOnline Business Entity Detail (printed)
- Initial Filing (Articles of Incorporation / Organization, or Statement and Designation)
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 1 s in prefill mode and 30 s in verification mode.
These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
Official California business entity register maintained by the California Secretary of State and served through the bizfileOnline portal. Covers domestic and foreign corporations (stock, non-profit, professional, statutory close, cooperative), limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and registered general partnerships. The portal's entity detail page shows the legal name, entity number, entity type, status, formation date, jurisdiction, registered agent (name, address and type), principal office address and mailing address, but no officer roster. The Secretary of State's bulk extract of the full register backs search and prefill mode, and carries the officer, director, manager and member roster filed on Statements of Information.
Issuer-approved equity and fund-unit admission or trading reported to the FCA on active UK markets classified RMKT in the ISO MIC directory. Source-scoped evidence; formal listing and AML eligibility require separate assessment.
Issuer-approved equity and fund-unit admission or trading reported to ESMA on active markets classified RMKT in the ISO MIC directory, excluding UK venues served through FCA. Source-scoped evidence; formal listing and AML eligibility require separate assessment.
Market names, segment and operating MICs, countries and market categories published by ISO.
- GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
Request a company by its California Entity Number as the id, with countryCode set to US-CA. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.
The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.
- Identifiers and formats2
- Search patterns2
- Quirks7
- Legal forms32
- Officer roles25
- Company statuses23
- Documents4
- Example responses4