Nordic New Companies Feed: Norway & Finland

Nordic New Companies Feed: Norway & Finland (official registries, no key)

Get every new company registered in Norway and Finland, plus bankruptcies and liquidations, from the official business registries: the Norwegian Brønnøysund Register Centre (Brreg, Enhetsregisteret) and the Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH, YTJ open data). Both countries come out in one clean, normalized schema: organisation number, company name, legal form (code, local and English name), registration date, NACE industry code, municipality, city, postal code, employees (Norway), status and bankruptcy / liquidation flags, with registry links.

Filter by country, legal form (AS, ASA, NUF, OY, OYJ...), NACE prefix (62 = IT, 41 = construction...) and municipality (Oslo, Bergen, Helsinki, Espoo...). Companies and other legal entities only: sole proprietorships are always excluded and no person names, roles or street addresses are included.

Who it's for

• B2B sales and agencies: a daily list of brand-new Nordic companies that need accounting, banking, insurance, software, office space, recruitment, websites and marketing.
• Accountants, auditors, lawyers and banks: new AS / OY companies in your municipality the day they register.
• Credit, risk and collections teams: daily bankruptcies, voluntary liquidations and forced dissolutions (Norway: missing auditor, accounts, board or general manager).
• Investors, analysts and data teams: new-business formation by industry and region, in one schema for both countries.

Why this Actor

• Two countries, one schema: Norwegian and Finnish records normalized to the same fields; NACE codes harmonised to the 62.10 format (Norway SN2025 / NACE Rev. 2.1, Finland TOL 2008 / NACE Rev. 2).
• Three event types: newRegistrations (default), bankruptcies, dissolutions.
• Never empty on weekends: the default window walks back over weekends and holidays to the latest registry day with data.
• Entities only: Norwegian ENK (enkeltpersonforetak) and Finnish toiminimi / private traders are always dropped (no option to include). Street lines and c/o fields are never output, only municipality, city and postal code.
• Official, open, polite: Brreg API (NLOD 2.0) and PRH YTJ API v3 (CC BY 4.0), no key, a handful of requests per run.
• Fast and cheap: the default run returns 40 records in about 10 seconds at 512 MB.

Quick start

1. Click Start with the default input {}: the latest new registrations, 20 from Norway and 20 from Finland.
2. New Oslo and Bergen IT companies this week: {"countries": ["NO"], "legalForms": ["AS"], "naceCodes": ["62"], "municipalities": ["Oslo", "Bergen"], "daysBack": 7, "maxItems": 200}
3. New Finnish limited companies in Helsinki and Espoo: {"countries": ["FI"], "legalForms": ["OY"], "municipalities": ["Helsinki", "Espoo"], "daysBack": 3, "maxItems": 200}
4. Bankruptcies in both countries, last 7 days: {"eventTypes": ["bankruptcies"], "daysBack": 7, "maxItems": 500}
5. Liquidations and forced dissolutions in Norway: {"eventTypes": ["dissolutions"], "countries": ["NO"], "daysBack": 7, "maxItems": 500}

Schedule tip (daily feed)

Create an Apify Schedule for every weekday morning (e.g. 07:00 Europe/Oslo) with "daysBack": 1 and your filters, then connect it to Slack, email, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Make, Zapier, n8n or a webhook. The Actor is stateless: each run returns the latest registry day(s) in the window; set "autoExtend": false if you want exactly daysBack days and nothing more.

Input

Field	Meaning
eventTypes	newRegistrations (default), bankruptcies, dissolutions; several allowed, maxItems is split between them
countries	NO, FI (default both)
legalForms	Codes or names: AS, ASA, NUF, ANS, DA, SA, STI, FLI; OY, OYJ, OK, KY, AY, AOY, KOY; Aksjeselskap, Osakeyhtiö, Limited company. Sole proprietorships are not available. Bankruptcy estates (KBO) appear in new registrations only when listed
naceCodes	Industry code prefixes: 62, 62.01, 70.2, 41
municipalities	Names (Oslo, Helsinki) or codes (0301, 091)
daysBack	Registry days ending today (local date), default 1
maxItems	Cap per run (also caps your spend), default 40
autoExtend	Walk back over weekends / holidays when the window is short (default on)

Output

One record per event: eventType (newRegistration, bankruptcy, dissolution), eventDate, dissolutionType (NO voluntaryLiquidation / forcedDissolution, FI liquidation / deregistered), country, countryName, orgNumber (NO organisasjonsnummer / FI Y-tunnus), name, legalFormCode, legalFormName, legalFormNameEn, registrationDate, tradeRegisterRegistrationDate, foundedDate, naceCode, industryCode, industryDescription, industryClassification, municipality, municipalityCode, city, postalCode, addressCountry, addressType, employees (Norway, when registered), status (active, pending, bankrupt, inLiquidation, forcedDissolution, inReorganisation, deregistered, deleted), bankrupt, bankruptcyDate, inLiquidation, liquidationDate, forcedDissolution, forcedDissolutionDate, forcedDissolutionReason, inReorganisation, reorganisationDate, deregisteredDate, vatRegistered, inTradeRegister, partOfGroup, website, sourceUrl (API record), registryUrl (public registry page), source, license, firstSeenAt.

Example (real records):

[
  {
    "eventType": "newRegistration",
    "eventDate": "2026-10-30",
    "dissolutionType": null,
    "country": "NO",
    "countryName": "Norway",
    "orgNumber": "938789886",
    "name": "SALVIADE AS",
    "legalFormCode": "AS",
    "legalFormName": "Aksjeselskap",
    "legalFormNameEn": "Private limited company",
    "registrationDate": "2026-10-30",
    "tradeRegisterRegistrationDate": "2026-10-30",
    "foundedDate": "2026-10-01",
    "naceCode": null,
    "industryCode": null,
    "industryDescription": null,
    "industryClassification": null,
    "municipality": "OSLO",
    "municipalityCode": "0301",
    "city": "OSLO",
    "postalCode": "0581",
    "addressCountry": "NO",
    "addressType": "business",
    "employees": null,
    "status": "active",
    "bankrupt": false,
    "bankruptcyDate": null,
    "inLiquidation": false,
    "liquidationDate": null,
    "forcedDissolution": false,
    "forcedDissolutionDate": null,
    "forcedDissolutionReason": null,
    "inReorganisation": false,
    "reorganisationDate": null,
    "deregisteredDate": null,
    "vatRegistered": false,
    "inTradeRegister": true,
    "partOfGroup": false,
    "website": null,
    "sourceUrl": "https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api/enheter/938789886",
    "registryUrl": "https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/938789886",
    "source": "Brønnøysundregistrene - Enhetsregisteret (data.brreg.no)",
    "license": "NLOD 2.0",
    "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-31T07:27:04.102Z"
  },
  {
    "eventType": "newRegistration",
    "eventDate": "2026-10-29",
    "dissolutionType": null,
    "country": "FI",
    "countryName": "Finland",
    "orgNumber": "3665350-5",
    "name": "Aaltonen Creative Oy",
    "legalFormCode": "OY",
    "legalFormName": "Osakeyhtiö",
    "legalFormNameEn": "Limited company",
    "registrationDate": "2026-10-29",
    "tradeRegisterRegistrationDate": "2026-10-29",
    "foundedDate": "2026-10-25",
    "naceCode": "59.11",
    "industryCode": "59110",
    "industryDescription": "Motion picture, video and television programme production activities",
    "industryClassification": "TOL 2008 (NACE Rev. 2)",
    "municipality": "Porvoo",
    "municipalityCode": "638",
    "city": "PORVOO",
    "postalCode": "06100",
    "addressCountry": "FI",
    "addressType": "street",
    "employees": null,
    "status": "active",
    "bankrupt": false,
    "bankruptcyDate": null,
    "inLiquidation": false,
    "liquidationDate": null,
    "forcedDissolution": null,
    "forcedDissolutionDate": null,
    "forcedDissolutionReason": null,
    "inReorganisation": false,
    "reorganisationDate": null,
    "deregisteredDate": null,
    "vatRegistered": false,
    "inTradeRegister": true,
    "partOfGroup": null,
    "website": null,
    "sourceUrl": "https://avoindata.prh.fi/opendata-ytj-api/v3/companies?businessId=3665350-5",
    "registryUrl": "https://tietopalvelu.ytj.fi/yritys/3665350-5",
    "source": "Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) - YTJ open data",
    "license": "CC BY 4.0",
    "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-31T07:27:04.102Z"
  }
]```
The run summary (key-value store record `OUTPUT`) lists the windows covered per country and event, records available vs delivered, skipped sole proprietorships and why the run stopped.

## How it works
1. **New registrations:** Brreg `enheter?fraRegistreringsdatoEnhetsregisteret=` and PRH `companies?registrationDateStart=` per registry day, newest day first.
2. **Bankruptcies / dissolutions:** Brreg `konkurs`, `underAvvikling` and `underTvangsavviklingEllerTvangsopplosning` lists filtered by their dates; for Finland, PRH's daily bulk file (`all_companies`, about 100 MB) is streamed and only companies with a bankruptcy, liquidation or end date in the window are kept (PRH's API has no filter for these).
3. Drops sole proprietorships, applies your filters, splits `maxItems` fairly across countries and event types and delivers.

## Notes and limits
- Brand-new Norwegian companies often get their industry code a few days after registration; `naceCode` is `null` until then.
- Industry descriptions are in Norwegian for Norway (from Brreg) and English for Finland.
- PRH's bulk file is refreshed once a day (early morning Finnish time), so Finnish bankruptcies / liquidations can lag by a day. Runs that include Finnish bankruptcies or dissolutions take roughly 1-3 minutes (the 100 MB download from PRH is the bottleneck); new registrations alone take about 10 seconds.
- Finnish open data has no employee counts.
- Company names are the registered legal names of entities; some include a founder's name (e.g. "Hansen Consulting AS"). No person fields (board members, owners, contact persons, c/o lines) are ever output.
- Data: Brønnøysundregistrene (NLOD 2.0), Finnish Patent and Registration Office PRH (CC BY 4.0). Not affiliated with either registry.

## Pricing
Pay per event: a small start fee per run plus a fee per delivered company record. `maxItems` and Apify's max-charge setting cap your spend.