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Companies come from more than one corpus, and no single corpus carries every field. Rows are stitched: one source owns the company, others fill the gaps it leaves. Each field records who supplied it.

Where companies come from

Y Combinator

6,202 companies

Companies funded by Y Combinator, via the community-maintained yc-oss/api built from YC's public directory.

One liner 100.0% Industry 100.0% Subindustry 78.4% Year 100.0% Ticker 0.0% Domain 99.4%

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Forbes Global 2000

2,000 companies

The largest public companies worldwide, ranked by a blend of sales, profit, assets and market value, read live from Forbes' current list. The only corpus here that is not US-only. Ranking and industry labels are Forbes'; we keep theirs as the sub-area and map it onto our shared set of areas.

One liner 99.9% Industry 100.0% Subindustry 100.0% Year 95.4% Ticker 13.8% Domain 90.7%

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Fortune 1000

1,000 companies

The largest US companies by revenue, read live from Fortune's current ranking (the list runs to 1,000). Ranking, sector and industry labels are Fortune's; we keep the finer one as the sub-area and map it onto our shared set of areas. Websites for the top 500 come from an earlier vendored snapshot.

One liner 43.6% Industry 100.0% Subindustry 100.0% Year 43.1% Ticker 42.0% Domain 58.1%

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Unicorns

836 companies

Startups valued at over a billion dollars, from Wikipedia's maintained list. The most globally distributed corpus here, and the only one covering Southeast Asian tech — Grab, Gojek, Tokopedia, Bukalapak and Sea Limited appear in none of the others. Companies that have since exited carry the outcome.

One liner 12.9% Industry 72.7% Subindustry 72.7% Year 13.5% Ticker 0.4% Domain 11.2%

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TinySeed

205 companies

Companies backed by TinySeed's revenue-based accelerator, whose whole premise is the opposite of chasing a unicorn valuation: profitable, small-team SaaS. No industry field — the page it's read from carries only a name, a website, a one-line description, a rough location and a cohort.

One liner 100.0% Industry 0.0% Subindustry 0.0% Year 95.6% Ticker 0.0% Domain 100.0%

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Forbes Cloud 100

100 companies

The top 100 private cloud and enterprise software companies, ranked annually by Forbes with Bessemer Venture Partners and TrueBridge. Curated for quality rather than size — none of these 100 are Y Combinator companies, which makes it the source for well-branded startups outside YC's own portfolio. Industry labels are Forbes'; we keep theirs as the sub-area and map it onto our shared set of areas.

One liner 29.0% Industry 100.0% Subindustry 100.0% Year 91.0% Ticker 0.0% Domain 58.0%

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Where the gaps get filled

Enrichment never overwrites what a company's own source supplied — it only fills what was missing, and records itself against each field it touched.

SourceFields it filledLicence note
unicorns status (73), country (49), one liner (14), long description (1) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
S&P 500 / GICS subindustry (290), year (64) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
Wikidata one liner (175) CC0 — shown in full
forbes2000 one liner (441), year (436), country (434), domain (144), website (144), industry (9), subindustry (9), team size (8), status (1) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
site+domain brand name (74) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
fortune500 ticker (280), team size (16), industry (14), subindustry (14), domain (10), website (10), year (6), one liner (6), status (5), long description (3), country (2) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
yc-oss long description (58), one liner (53), domain (48), website (48), year (46), team size (40), status (20), industry (7), subindustry (7), country (1) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
sec+site+wikidata brand name (20) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
sec+site+wikidata+domain brand name (4) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
Forbes Cloud 100 team size (61), year (57), domain (39), website (39), country (17), long description (9), one liner (7), subindustry (3), industry (1) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
domain brand name (81) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
wikidata+domain brand name (23) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
site+wikidata brand name (36) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
site+wikidata+domain brand name (20) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
manual brand name (16) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
listed brand name (3) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
site brand name (68) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
legal brand name (53) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
sec+site brand name (9) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
sec+site+domain brand name (7) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
sec+domain brand name (2) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
sec+listed brand name (4) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
sec+wikidata brand name (8) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
site+sec brand name (2) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
sec+wikidata+domain brand name (4) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
site+legal brand name (6) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
domain+legal brand name (13) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
site+domain+legal brand name (6) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
wikidata+sec brand name (2) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
site+wikidata+sec brand name (2) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
site+wikidata+domain+legal brand name (1) Facts only; classification belongs to the source
wikidata+legal brand name (1) Facts only; classification belongs to the source

What we deliberately do not take