Fifty thousand companies across West and Sub-Saharan Africa. Registry filings, transaction history, banking relationships and credit decisions, assembled by operating the trade rather than scraping it.
Search confirms whether a record exists. The underlying documents are released only to verified requesters.
Counts from the Caravel Companies Master. The searchable index is being loaded source by source and currently covers the customs and transit register layer.
What sits behind a record
Most African company databases are directories. This one was built by a business that financed these buyers, shipped to them, and ran the exchange they trade on. The record reflects that.
Corporate registration, customs and transit licences, gazette notices and corporate events, with the raw source preserved next to every normalised field.
Trades executed, tenors taken, and outcomes, drawn from a decade of operating cross-border trade and running the continent's trade exchange.
Named banking relationships and letter-of-credit history, which is the verification lever a desk in London or Dubai never has.
Credit-agency identifiers with reports on file, historic limit decisions, and our own default and recovery experience on the names we financed ourselves.
How access works
The same model as a credit bureau. Anyone can confirm a record exists. Only a verified party with a stated purpose sees what is in it, one obligor at a time.
Type a company name. You see whether a record exists, its country, and which classes of information it holds. Nothing else.
Request access with a work email and your company's registration details, or upload evidence of who you are. We verify every requester by hand.
Access is granted for a named counterparty and a stated purpose: underwriting, trade finance or onboarding. There is no bulk export.
Coverage
Deepest in the UEMOA states and Ghana, where the record is longest, extending through wider Sub-Saharan and North African trade corridors.
If you finance, insure or onboard counterparties in these markets, this is the file the market told you did not exist.
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