United States companies, securities and sanctions, in JSON

The United States has no national business registry: each state keeps its own, and Delaware's is where most of the country's startups, venture capital funds and public companies are incorporated. Capital, on the other hand, is reported at the federal level. An issuer raising a round under Regulation D files a Form D with the SEC within fifteen days of the first sale; an adviser managing third-party money files a Form ADV with every private fund it manages; a manager with at least 100 million dollars in public equities reports its holdings every quarter on Form 13F; a startup raising from the public through a funding portal files a Form C with two years of its financials, and a larger issuer an offering statement under Regulation A. And the federal government publishes whom you cannot do business with: OFAC's sanctions, the export screening lists of Commerce and State, and the parties excluded from federal contracts, while FinCEN registers every money services business. Secured lending is on the record too: a lender perfects its claim on a borrower's assets by filing a UCC financing statement with the state, where tax, hospital and other statutory liens are filed as well. Hiring from abroad is on the record too: before an employer hires on an H-1B visa it files a Labor Condition Application with the Department of Labor, stating the job, the wage it will pay against the prevailing wage for the role and every place the worker will work, and to sponsor that worker for a green card it files a PERM labor certification.

Croma queries the Florida registry by document number, Delaware's by file number, New York's by DOS ID, Colorado's by entity ID and Connecticut's by account number, opens any Colorado or Connecticut lien by any of its filing numbers, opens any EDGAR filer by CIK, any Form D, 13F, event, crowdfunding or Regulation A filing by accession number, any adviser by CRD and any H-1B or PERM case by its case number, and searches by name across every source, including the aliases the screening lists record, the principals Connecticut businesses report, the owners of every Florida trade name and the debtors and secured parties of every lien. Fifty-six endpoints over sixteen sources, with the same structured answer as the rest of the catalog and a free tool per endpoint to try without signing up.

The United States has no omnibus federal personal data protection law. What Croma queries are corporate, securities and screening records the law requires to be published: the companies of five state registries, the lien filings of Colorado and Connecticut, the Form D, ADV and 13F the SEC publishes, FinCEN's register of money services businesses, the Labor Condition Applications and PERM certifications the Department of Labor publishes, and the OFAC, export screening and SAM exclusion lists, which are meant to be consulted. Croma returns the record as it was published; the lawful use of the result, and your own country's law when you cross it with your customers' data, remain your responsibility.