New Business Registrations Scraper: New US Companies

Returns newly registered US businesses from official state open-data registries, one record per business: business name, entity type, state, registration date, status, business address, registered agent (when the agent is a company), state entity ID and a link to the source record.

It reads the business registries that four Secretaries of State publish as public-domain open data: Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon and Pennsylvania. Pick the states and a date window, filter by entity type, city or ZIP, and schedule it daily with onlyNew switched on to get just the businesses registered since your last run.

What you get

Field	Example
entityName	Te Rustic Design Co. LLC
entityId	20268291814 (the state's own ID number)
state, stateName	CO, Colorado
entityType	llc, corporation, nonprofit, partnership, cooperative, trust, other or assumed-name
entityTypeRaw	Domestic Limited Liability Company (the state's own wording)
domesticOrForeign, jurisdictionOfFormation	domestic, CO
registrationDate	2026-10-22
status	Good Standing, Active
addressLine1, addressLine2, city, addressState, zipCode, country, fullAddress	The principal office or business address as filed
county	Pennsylvania only
naicsCode, naicsDescription	Connecticut only, for example 812310, Coin-Operated Laundries and Drycleaners
registeredAgentName	Registered Agents Inc (only when the agent is a company)
registeredAgentType	entity, individual (name withheld) or empty when the state does not publish agents
registryUrl	Colorado only: the Secretary of State record page
sourceUrl, sourceDataset, sourceLicense	The open-data record, dataset and licence behind each row
isNew, firstSeenDate	Whether a previous run with the same input already returned this business

The Output tab has three views: New businesses, Lead list with addresses and Registered agent companies.

Coverage and freshness

State	Source	Updated	History in the source
Colorado	Colorado Department of State, "Business Entities in Colorado"	Daily	Every entity since 1864
Connecticut	Connecticut Secretary of the State, "Connecticut Business Registry - Business Master"	Daily	Full registry
Oregon	Oregon Secretary of State Corporation Division, "New Businesses Registered Last Month"	Monthly, around mid-month	The previous calendar month only
Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania Department of State, "Registered Businesses in PA Current by County"	Monthly	All currently active registrations

Colorado and Connecticut usually include businesses registered the day before. Oregon and Pennsylvania arrive in monthly batches, so use a window of at least 60 days to always include them. The run report tells you the newest registration date each state has published.

Who it is for

• Sales teams and agencies selling to new businesses: business banking, insurance, payroll, accounting, web design, signage, office fit-out, merchant services.
• Registered agent and compliance firms tracking which agent companies new businesses choose.
• Analysts and economic developers measuring business formation by state, city, ZIP and entity type.
• Local service businesses building a weekly list of new companies in their ZIP codes.

Quick start

1. Click Start with the example input. You get up to 1,000 businesses registered in the last 30 days across all four states, newest first and shared evenly across states.
2. Narrow it down: states ["CO"], entity types ["llc", "corporation"], cities ["Denver", "Boulder"] or ZIP prefixes ["802"].
3. Schedule it daily with Only businesses not returned by previous runs switched on, and send the dataset to Google Sheets, your CRM, email or Slack with an Apify integration or webhook.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
states	CO, CT, OR, PA (codes or names)	all four
registeredWithinDays	Registered in the last N days	30
registeredFrom, registeredTo	Fixed date window, YYYY-MM-DD. Overrides N days	none
entityTypes	Any of llc, corporation, nonprofit, partnership, cooperative, trust, other, assumed-name	all except assumed-name
cities	Business address city, case-insensitive exact match	all
zipCodes	Business address ZIP code or prefix	all
onlyNew	Only businesses not returned before for this same input	false
maxItems	Maximum records in total. 0 means no limit	1000

Example input for a daily lead feed:

{
  "states": ["CO", "CT"],
  "registeredWithinDays": 7,
  "entityTypes": ["llc", "corporation"],
  "zipCodes": ["802", "803", "061"],
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Output example

{
  "entityName": "Te Rustic Design Co. LLC",
  "entityId": "20268291814",
  "state": "CO",
  "stateName": "Colorado",
  "entityType": "llc",
  "entityTypeRaw": "Domestic Limited Liability Company",
  "domesticOrForeign": "domestic",
  "jurisdictionOfFormation": "CO",
  "registrationDate": "2026-10-22",
  "status": "Good Standing",
  "addressLine1": "4305 Crow Creek Dr",
  "addressLine2": null,
  "city": "Colorado Springs",
  "addressState": "CO",
  "zipCode": "80922",
  "country": "US",
  "fullAddress": "4305 Crow Creek Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80922, US",
  "county": null,
  "naicsCode": null,
  "naicsDescription": null,
  "registeredAgentName": null,
  "registeredAgentType": "individual",
  "registryUrl": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityDetail.do?quitButtonDestination=BusinessEntityResults&fileId=20268291814",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.colorado.gov/resource/4ykn-tg5h.json?entityid=20268291814",
  "sourceDataset": "Business Entities in Colorado, Colorado Department of State (https://data.colorado.gov/d/4ykn-tg5h)",
  "sourceLicense": "Public Domain (data.colorado.gov dataset licence)",
  "isNew": true,
  "firstSeenDate": "2026-10-23",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T12:51:50Z",
  "schemaVersion": 1
}

A run report is saved in the key-value store as RUN_SUMMARY: records per state, the newest registration date each state has published, and any state that could not be read.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay per event pricing, with platform usage included:

• $3.50 per 1,000 business records (business-record event, $0.0035 each)

You only pay for records saved to your dataset, so filters, onlyNew and maxItems keep costs down. A daily onlyNew run over Colorado and Connecticut returns roughly the previous day's registrations. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

How "only new businesses" works

When onlyNew is on, the Actor remembers which businesses it already returned for this exact input (states, entity types, cities, ZIP codes and date window) in a key-value store in your account called us-new-business-registrations-state. The next run returns only businesses not on that list. The first run returns everything that matches. A rolling window such as "last 30 days" keeps the same history from day to day. Changing the filters starts a fresh history. The store holds state IDs and dates only.

Privacy

The output is company-level by default and contains no personal names:

• Registered agents are named only when the agent is a company. When the agent is a person, registeredAgentType is individual and the name is left out.
• Officers, organisers, members, managers, governors, incorporators and registrants are never collected.
• Business email addresses and owner demographic flags that some states publish are never collected.
• Assumed business names (trade names that sole traders often register) are left out unless you ask for assumed-name, and their registrant is never returned.

Business names and business addresses are returned as filed with the state. Some small businesses file a home address as their business address. Please use the data in line with the laws that apply to you, including marketing and anti-spam rules.

Data sources, licences and attribution

All data comes from official state open-data portals through their public APIs, with no login.

• Colorado: "Business Entities in Colorado", Colorado Department of State, data.colorado.gov. Licence: Public Domain. As the portal's terms require: The data made available here has been modified for use from its original source, which is the State of Colorado. THE STATE OF COLORADO MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTY AS TO THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, OR CONTENT OF ANY DATA MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SITE. THE STATE OF COLORADO EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The data is subject to change as modifications and updates are complete. It is understood that the information contained in the Web feed is being used at one's own risk.
• Connecticut: "Connecticut Business Registry - Business Master", Connecticut Secretary of the State, Business Services Division, data.ct.gov. Licence: Public Domain. The State of Connecticut provides the data "as is" with no warranty.
• Oregon: "New Businesses Registered Last Month", Oregon Secretary of State Corporation Division, data.oregon.gov. Licence: Public Domain U.S. Government.
• Pennsylvania: "Registered Businesses in PA Current by County", Pennsylvania Department of State, data.pa.gov. Licence: Public Domain U.S. Government.

Entity types are grouped into simple categories by this Actor; the state's own wording is kept in entityTypeRaw.

FAQ

Why is my state not supported? Only states that publish their business registry as open data with a clear open licence are included. New York, Iowa and others publish business data without a stated licence on the dataset, so they are left out for now.

Why does Oregon or Pennsylvania return nothing for "last 7 days"? Both states publish once a month. Oregon publishes the previous calendar month around the middle of the next month. Use a window of 60 days or more, or a fixed date range, for those states. RUN_SUMMARY shows the newest date each state has published.

Why is the status empty for Oregon? The Oregon new-business dataset does not include a status. Pennsylvania's dataset lists active registrations only, so its records show Active.

Why is the registered agent empty for Connecticut and Pennsylvania? Those datasets do not include registered agents under an open licence, so the Actor does not read them.

Is the registration date the formation date? For businesses formed in the state, yes. For businesses formed elsewhere ("foreign"), it is the date they registered to do business in the state.

Something looks wrong. What should I do? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the run link and the input you used.

Disclaimer

This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the State of Colorado, the State of Connecticut, the State of Oregon, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, their Secretaries of State or Departments of State, or Tyler Technologies (Socrata). Check a business's record with the state before relying on it.