New company registration

In short: New companies buy set-up services such as a corporate secretary, accounting, insurance and payroll early, so filter ACRA's monthly data by registration date, SSIC code and entity type and write within two to six weeks. Many new entities never trade, so check for real activity first.

Intent

Medium

Act within

2 to 6 weeks

Where to find it

data.gov.sg: ACRA Information on Corporate Entities (Free), ACRA: types of information products (Bizfile) (Free basic search; business profile S$5.50)

What this signal means

A company or other entity has been registered with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) and received a UEN. In Singapore, ACRA’s register is the official record of who exists as a business.

On its own, a new registration says only that a business now exists. Combined with what it says it does, its type and its address, it can tell you whether it is the kind of business that buys from you.

Why it predicts a purchase

New companies have to set things up, and many of those purchases happen in the first months: a corporate secretary, accounting and tax help, a bank account, insurance, premises or a virtual office, a website, email, payroll and basic software. If you sell any of these, a new registration is a direct signal.

For most other B2B sellers, it is weaker. A new company may be a holding vehicle, a one-person consultancy or a dormant entity. That is why we rate it medium intent and suggest filtering hard before acting.

Where to find it in Singapore

• ACRA Information on Corporate Entities on data.gov.sg. Free under the Open Data Licence, for personal or commercial use. ACRA describes it as datasets of registered entities in Singapore, updated monthly and split into 27 CSV files, one for each letter and one for “others”. When we checked in October 2026, the file for names starting with C covered January 1970 to September 2026, was last updated on 16 September 2026 and was set to update monthly on the 16th. Useful columns include UEN, entity name, entity type, company type, entity status, registration or incorporation date, address fields, primary and secondary SSIC code and description, and number of officers. The listing notes that certain columns are excluded for gazetted companies to comply with the Companies Act.
• Bizfile. ACRA says basic business information such as entity status, registered address and business activity can be searched free on Bizfile without logging in. A business profile, which adds position holders, costs S$5.50.

How to monitor it

1. Download the files you need each month after the update, or call the data.gov.sg API for each dataset.
2. Filter by registration date to the last month or two.
3. Filter by SSIC code for the industries that buy from you, and by entity type and status to drop entities you do not serve.
4. Use the address to separate businesses at a real premises from those at a corporate secretary’s address, if that matters for what you sell.
5. Spot-check on Bizfile before approaching anyone, and only buy a business profile for companies you will actually contact.

How to get a list of newly registered companies in Singapore

1. Open the ACRA Information on Corporate Entities collection on data.gov.sg. It is free under the Open Data Licence and you do not need an account to download it.
2. Download all 27 CSV files if you want every new entity. They are split by the first letter of the entity name, plus one file for names starting with other characters, so one letter on its own is not a full list.
3. Filter Registration Incorporation Date to the period you want. In the update published on 16 September 2026, the newest date we saw was 31 August 2026, so each monthly update runs to roughly the end of the previous month.
4. Filter Entity Type Description and Entity Status Description. For example, keep live local companies and drop sole proprietorships and partnerships if you only sell to companies.
5. Filter Primary SSIC Code to the industries that buy from you.

If you prefer code, data.gov.sg documents a datastore search API that accepts filters and sorting on these columns. It returns a “rate limit exceeded” error if you call it too often, so download the files for bulk work.

Each row gives the UEN, entity name, entity and company type, status, registration or incorporation date, UEN issue date, address fields, account due date, annual return date, primary and secondary SSIC code, description and user-described activity, number of officers, former names and audit firm names. There are no officers’ names, emails or phone numbers.

The files include sole proprietorships, which are often one person, so treat the data as personal data where it identifies someone and read B2B outreach in Singapore: what PDPA and the Do Not Call rules allow before writing.

How fast to act

Within two to six weeks of the company appearing in the data. Because the dataset is monthly, the company may already be a few weeks old when you see it. Basic set-up purchases happen early, so later is usually too late for those. For services a company needs once it starts trading, such as recruitment or equipment, there is more time, and pairing the registration with a second signal, such as hiring or a new office, is wiser.

Example first message

Illustrative example:

Subject: Payroll set-up for Tidewater Analytics

Hi Grace, I saw Tidewater Analytics was recently registered with ACRA as an IT consultancy. Congratulations on getting started. Many new firms set up payroll and CPF contributions just before their first hire, and it is easier to get right from the start. We run payroll for small teams at a fixed monthly fee. Would a short checklist for your first hire be useful?

Regards, Farid

Pitfalls and rules

• Many new entities never trade. Filter by SSIC code and entity type, and look for a website or other activity before you write.
• SSIC codes can be broad. Read the user-described activity column as well, and treat both as a hint, not a description.
• Addresses can mislead. Many companies use a corporate secretary’s address.
• Watch volume. New companies are sent a lot of unsolicited offers. Write to fewer, better-fitting firms.
• Small firms are often one person. Write to a business address, keep it relevant to the business, and read B2B outreach in Singapore: what PDPA and the Do Not Call rules allow.

FYAdvisers can filter new registrations to your sectors as part of our signal-based lead generation service.