[jrudolph]

Is this a US specific problem? In Germany companies need to maintain cap tables in a mandatory public registry (Handelsregister). You can request any company’s records against a small fee (which in fairness I consider very backwards, could be more open). There are some third party providers like NorthData making this data available publicly as well.

[tihomirb]

I am one of the organizers of this Coalition. for the first version of our open format we're focused on American Delaware Corp C's - most common entity that VCs invest into.

we announced a number of new Coalition members yesterday who also would like to see this sort of standardization outside of the US. we're focused on the US atm

[lorey]

As an example for the non-Germans here, here's N26: https://www.northdata.com/N26+Bank+GmbH,+Berlin/Amtsgericht+...

note: it shows management not ownership

[rayshan]

Thank you for this! Very cool example of what can be built on top of OCF.

[hikingsolomon]

Hi - I’m the author of the TechCrunch piece and I’ve lived in Berlin. It’s very different in the US and Canada, are are most regulatory things (▰˘◡˘▰)

[gumby]

In the US only public companies need to provide this info (and I believe only for shareholders over a certain percentage).

Private companies' operations are, well, private.