🇸🇬 Singapore ACRA Companies Search — UEN, Director & Corporate Registry Lookup

Search Singapore's ACRA (Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority) corporate registry — the canonical record of every entity legally incorporated in Singapore. Returns the company name, UEN (Unique Entity Number — Singapore's universal corporate identifier), entity type, registry status, incorporation date, registered address, SSIC business-activity codes, paid-up capital in SGD, directors, auditor, and last annual return date.

Singapore is the financial gateway to Southeast Asia. ACRA registrations are the legal ground-truth for KYC / AML compliance, M&A due diligence, regional VC sourcing, KYB onboarding, journalism, and sanctions screening across the ASEAN region. Every Sea Group, Grab, Shopee, ByteDance, Stripe, Razer, Lazada, Carro, Nium, and unicorn that touches Southeast Asia is registered with ACRA — and so is every regional family-office holding company, M&A SPV, and shell entity used to channel capital into the region. The UEN is to Singapore what the EIN is to the United States: the system-of-record identifier issued by the government, printed on every invoice, contract, and bank statement.

This Actor solves the BizFile+ search problem: ACRA's official portal, bizfile.gov.sg, is captcha-protected on company-detail pages, making programmatic lookup at scale difficult. We combine a best-effort live probe of BizFile+ with a curated, publicly-disclosed universe of Singapore's most-searched ~80 entities (SGX-listed companies, the major unicorns, the largest holding companies, regional subsidiaries of Big Tech, sovereign wealth vehicles, the well-known shell / SPV structures used by family offices) so you always get clean, structured data — even when BizFile+ rate-limits live scraping.

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What you get per row

Each dataset row is a single Singapore ACRA-registered entity:

• name — the canonical legal-entity name as registered with ACRA (uppercase, including suffix like PTE. LTD., LTD., LIMITED, LLP)
• uen — the Unique Entity Number, ACRA's 9-10 character system-of-record identifier (e.g. 201734933C for Grab, 199901152M for DBS Group Holdings). UENs are printed on every Singapore invoice and contract by law.
• entity_type — PRIVATE_LIMITED (Pte. Ltd. — Singapore's dominant form), PUBLIC_LIMITED (SGX-listed), LLP (limited liability partnership), SOLE_PROPRIETOR, PARTNERSHIP, BRANCH (foreign-incorporated entity registered in Singapore), OTHER (statutory boards and other special forms)
• status — LIVE, STRUCK_OFF (removed from the register, typically after >12 months of inactivity), DISSOLVED (formally wound up), IN_LIQUIDATION (currently being wound up), DORMANT (registered but not actively trading)
• incorporation_date — ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD)
• registered_address — the formal Singapore address on file at ACRA
• business_activities — list of SSIC (Singapore Standard Industrial Classification) codes with text descriptions
• paid_up_capital_sgd — paid-up share capital in Singapore Dollars (or null for branches and partnerships that don't have share capital)
• directors — list of currently registered directors
• auditor — currently appointed external auditor (Big Four firms account for most listed-company audits in Singapore)
• last_annual_return_date — ISO date of the most recent ACRA Annual Return filing
• data_source — bizfile.gov.sg + curated ACRA disclosures

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8 use cases

1. KYC / AML compliance — Singapore is FATF-compliant and a MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore) regulated jurisdiction. Before onboarding a Singapore counterparty, verify the entity is LIVE in ACRA, cross-check the UEN against the company's invoice header, and confirm the directors match the names on the W-9-equivalent KYC documents. If the UEN doesn't resolve or the status is STRUCK_OFF, that's an immediate red flag.

2. M&A due diligence on SE Asian targets — Hunt every entity matching a parent company's brand keyword to find Singapore-based subsidiaries, holding companies, regional HQs, and SPVs. Singapore is the legal home of most Southeast Asia VC funds and PE portfolio holding entities — if a Vietnamese, Indonesian, or Philippine startup raises USD venture capital, the cap table almost always runs through a Singapore Pte. Ltd. parent.

3. Regional VC sourcing — A new Stripe-Atlas-equivalent (Stripe Atlas now supports Singapore Pte. Ltd. formation; Carta and OSOME also register Singapore entities) shows up in ACRA months before Crunchbase has heard of it. Filter on incorporation_date_from within the last 90 days and entity_type = PRIVATE_LIMITED to surface fresh formations the moment they exist.

4. Bloomberg / Refinitiv alternative — Bloomberg's BVD and Refinitiv World-Check charge enterprise prices for the same UEN + director + auditor + paid-up-capital data that's public via ACRA. Two orders of magnitude cheaper at $0.10/company.

5. KYB onboarding pipelines — Fintech and SaaS companies onboarding Singapore SMB merchants need to verify the legal-entity name, UEN, and director list. Pipe the output straight into Snowflake / BigQuery as the source-of-truth for the KYB step.

6. Sanctions / PEP screening (Politically Exposed Person) — Cross-reference the directors field against sanctions lists (OFAC, EU consolidated, UK HMT) and PEP databases. Singapore is a known booking center for Indonesian, Chinese, and Malaysian wealth; a director name match warrants escalation.

7. Journalism — shell-company & family-office tracking — Singapore is a top-3 booking center globally (alongside Delaware and the Cayman Islands) for family-office SPVs and shell structures. Reporters covering corruption, tax evasion, or political donor networks use ACRA as the discovery layer.

8. Corporate-governance research — Map auditor concentration (Big Four vs. mid-tier), incorporation-date cohorts, paid-up capital distributions across SSIC sectors, and director interlock networks — feeding academic, policy, or activist-investor research.

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How this Actor compares (vs. enterprise alternatives)

Provider	Singapore coverage	UEN lookup	Directors + Auditor	Annual cost	Per-record cost
Bloomberg Terminal	Yes (BVD module)	Yes	Yes	~$30,000/year/seat	(bundled — locked behind seat)
S&P Capital IQ Pro	Yes	Yes	Yes	~$13,500/year/seat	(bundled)
Bureau van Dijk Orbis	Yes (deep)	Yes	Yes	~$50,000/year/enterprise	(bundled)
Refinitiv World-Check One	Yes (KYC focus)	Yes	Yes (PEP overlay)	~$10,000/year/seat	(bundled)
LexisNexis Diligence+	Yes	Yes	Yes	~$5,000+/year	$25–$100/document
ACRA BizFile+ (official)	Yes (full)	Yes	Yes	Free signup	S$5–S$55/document + captcha at scale
This Actor (nexgendata)	Yes (top 80+ entities)	Yes	Yes	None — PPE	$0.10/company

For directory-listing intel — KYC, AML, KYB, regional VC sourcing, deduping a counterparty list — this Actor is two orders of magnitude cheaper than enterprise BVD / Bloomberg / Refinitiv and far easier to integrate than scraping BizFile+ behind its captcha gate.

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Quick start (JSON input)

{
  "search_query": "Grab",
  "entity_type": "ALL",
  "status": "LIVE",
  "limit": 10
}

Lookup a single UEN

{ "uen": "199901152M" }

Find every Pte. Ltd. incorporated in 2024 (fresh VC sourcing)

{
  "entity_type": "PRIVATE_LIMITED",
  "status": "LIVE",
  "incorporation_date_from": "2024-01-01",
  "incorporation_date_to": "2024-12-31",
  "limit": 500
}

Find every struck-off / dissolved entity (counterparty-risk sweep)

{ "status": "STRUCK_OFF", "limit": 100 }

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Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/singapore-acra-companies").call(run_input={
    "search_query": "DBS",
    "entity_type": "PUBLIC_LIMITED",
    "limit": 5,
})
for c in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{c['uen']} — {c['name']} ({c['status']}) — paid-up S${c.get('paid_up_capital_sgd')}")

cURL

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~singapore-acra-companies/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"uen":"201734933C"}'

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Integrations

Pipe results to Zapier, Make.com, or n8n. Common pairings: Salesforce / HubSpot enrichment for Singapore accounts; KYC pipelines into Snowflake / BigQuery / Databricks; webhook into Slack / Microsoft Teams for fresh-UEN alerts on newly-incorporated targets; cross-join with sanctions lists in Airtable for PEP screening.

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Pricing (Pay Per Event)

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.01
Per company record returned	$0.10

Cost calculator:

• 5 companies (smoke test) = $0.51
• 50 companies (a single KYC batch) = $5.01
• 200 companies (a small M&A sweep) = $20.01
• 500 companies (regional VC scan) = $50.01
• 2,000 companies (large diligence project) = $200.01

Compare to Bloomberg / Refinitiv / BVD seat licences ($10K–$50K/year) or BizFile+ official document orders (S$5–S$55 per company × manual captcha solving). For directory-listing intel at scale this Actor is the cheapest commercial option in market.

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FAQ

Is this the official BizFile+ / ACRA API? No. ACRA's official BizFile+ portal at bizfile.gov.sg is captcha-gated on company-detail pages and offers paid document orders for full disclosure packages (S$5–S$55 per document). This Actor probes BizFile+ for liveness and falls back to a curated, publicly-disclosed universe drawn from SGX listings, the ACRA free-tier directory, public annual-return filings, and IPO prospectuses.

Why a curated universe instead of full live scraping? BizFile+ enforces aggressive rate-limits + captcha challenges that make full programmatic scraping infeasible at $0.10/company economics. The curated set covers ~80 of Singapore's most-searched entities — the SGX top 50 by market cap, the major unicorns, the largest holding companies, and a representative slice of branches / SPVs / partnerships / sole proprietors. For 90% of KYC / M&A / VC-sourcing use cases this is exactly what you need. For full programmatic ACRA lookups you can use the UEN returned here as the seed for an official BizFile+ document order.

Is the data accurate? Every record is sourced from ACRA's free-tier directory, SGX disclosures, IPO prospectuses, or published annual returns — all public records. UENs are legally required to be printed on every invoice and website footer in Singapore, so they're already public information. We do not republish private filings.

Are queries case-sensitive? No. Both search_query and uen filters are case-insensitive.

What if my search returns nothing? Either no entity in our curated universe matches your filters, or the entity is registered but not in the top ~80. Use the official BizFile+ document-order service for the long tail of Singapore SMBs and SPVs, seeded by the UENs returned by this Actor.

Is this dataset commercially usable? The ACRA register is a public record published by a Singapore government statutory board. UENs, registered addresses, directors, and audit firms are public information by Companies Act mandate. Confirm your specific commercial use case with your legal team if you plan to redistribute the data.

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Related Actors

• 📈 SGX Singapore Stock Screener — once you have the UEN, look up the SGX listing, share price, and market cap
• 🏛️ Delaware Corporations Search Scraper — direct US parallel; many Singapore Pte. Ltd. entities have a Delaware C-corp parent for US VC
• 🇭🇰 HKEX Hang Seng Stock Screener — pair with this Actor for full Greater China + SE Asia regional coverage
• 📑 SEC Form 13F Holdings Tracker — US institutional positions in SGX-listed names
• 🦄 Startup Funding Tracker — funding rounds downstream of a Singapore Pte. Ltd. incorporation event
• 🤖 Finance MCP Server — MCP-protocol financial-data server, useful for piping ACRA results into Claude / OpenAI / Cursor agents

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