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Getting legal entities right for SaaS companies
Here is how legal entities for SaaS companies actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and Legal Entity Resolver is the one pointed at SaaS companies.
Where this starts
SaaS companies and legal entities: the shortcuts stop working, for one specific reason. SaaS companies sell to other businesses and publish almost nothing about their own numbers, and legal entities inherits that. One thing legal entities on SaaS companies rarely accounts for: headcount flatters them, because contractors and alumni linger on a company page for years. If you would rather try it than read about it, Legal Entity Resolver does legal entities for SaaS companies today.
The method
- Start with one of SaaS companies you already know, so a wrong legal entities answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Legal Entity Resolver across your list of SaaS companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for legal entities.
- Read ten rows of legal entities on SaaS companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- G2, for SaaS companies. Categories and review counts, free to read, and it only covers vendors that asked to be listed.
- The company's own footer. In the UK and most of the EU the registered name and number are required on the website. It is the fastest lookup there is and people forget it exists.
- Dun and Bradstreet or a KYC vendor. Built for regulated onboarding, with the coverage and the price that implies. If you have a compliance obligation you probably already have one.
- Search the register. Companies House, the SEC, the local commercial register. All free, all authoritative, and all requiring you to already know roughly what you are searching for.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.