Topograph

Topograph is a business-to-business data infrastructure company that provides real-time access to information held in official company registers, delivered through a single API endpoint and a web application. Its stated purpose is to serve as the "data layer" for know-your-business (KYB) processes: search, onboarding prefill, verification, document retrieval and ongoing monitoring of registered companies. Data is pulled on demand from the source registers rather than from scraped or repackaged third-party databases, and each returned datapoint is linked back to the official document it was extracted from, which the company positions as an audit-defensible traceability model.

The product covers four workflow stages. A search endpoint allows lookup by company name or registration number with streamed results and multiple search sources per country. A /v2/company endpoint operates in an "onboarding" mode optimised for speed (stated P90 under 5 seconds) and cost by selecting the cheapest fast source, or in a verification mode that fetches live authoritative register data for final compliance checks. Official PDFs such as register extracts, statutes and financial statements can be downloaded, and webhook-based monitoring notifies customers when a company's register record changes (status, address, representatives). Additional capabilities include ownership-graph analysis for identifying ultimate beneficial owners, cross-border entity tracking, batch enrichment and remediation of large record sets via CSV, and a beta feature that extracts structured financial data from financial statement PDFs.

As of the seed announcement the platform covered 40 countries across Europe, Asia and offshore financial centres, drawing on hundreds of official sources; the company's guides section publishes country snapshots spanning European jurisdictions, Asian markets such as China, Hong Kong and Singapore, offshore centres including the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, and US state registers.

Founding story

Topograph was created in 2024 by three co-founders with backgrounds in fintech, legaltech and engineering. CEO Pierre-Henri Janssens and CTO Hugo Dellinger were part of the founding team of 1POINT6, the payment services provider start-up of BNP Paribas, where they had to assemble cross-border KYB data — register extracts, statutes and beneficial ownership filings from different jurisdictions — and found no vendor offering a single real-time, traceable, global integration. COO Emmanuel Scharff had spent six years as CFO/COO of legaltech firm Doctrine and began his career at Boston Consulting Group in Paris; Janssens previously worked at fintechs Indy and Climb, and Dellinger held software roles at Doctrine.

Business model

Topograph sells API and web-application access to official company register data and documents. Pricing is per request with granular per-call charges, no bulk contracts or minimum commitments, and volume discounts on batch processing; integration is offered as a REST API with webhooks, a no-integration web app for compliance teams with consolidated billing, and managed bulk/CSV enrichment runs.

Usage-based: customers pay per API request or document retrieval, with granular per-call pricing published on live coverage-and-pricing pages and volume discounts available for large batch jobs.

Traction

Reported customers include neobank Hero (B2B onboarding conversion and automated document collection), buy-now-pay-later provider Pledg (daily monitoring of thousands of companies) and payment service provider Lemonway (reduced manual country-by-country verification). Compliance software vendors Spektr, Dotfile, Harmoney and Aiprise in Europe and the US distribute Topograph data, and KYB orchestration platform Ondorse uses it for cross-jurisdiction company data. Coverage stood at 40 countries at the time of the seed round. The company holds ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications and publishes a trust center listing 178 controls.

Latest developments

In March 2026 Topograph announced a €2M seed round led by Seedcamp with participation from Drysdale Ventures, Motier Ventures, Kima Ventures and Better Angle. Proceeds are earmarked for extending coverage beyond the current 40 markets, starting with North America, Asia and the Middle East, and for advancing AI capabilities for extracting and enriching data from official sources. A beta feature for automated extraction of structured financial data from financial statement PDFs is in the documentation.