The Company business category (company_category) filter enables the discovery of companies based on their Veridion business category.

The "company's category" is a business classification value derived from Veridion's internal taxonomies. This categorization is the outcome of Machine Learning models Veridion has developed to organize companies within our database into approximately 600 distinct business categories.

Retrieving the Business Category list

Veridion offers a dedicated API that provides a hierarchical structure encompassing both industries and categories.

This enables you to access up-to-date information to input in the value field of the filter (see the Search modes below) and ensures that your search queries stay in sync with our database.

You can read more about this API in the Retrieving Veridion industries API section.

Search modes

Exact match

This mode is helpful when you are searching for companies classified under a specific business category. To run an exact match search, use equals in the relation parameter, and input the category name in the value field.

For example, the filter below searches for all the companies classified as "Tech Companies".

{
  "attribute": "company_category",
  "relation": "equals",
  "value": "Tech Companies"
}

Multiple exact match

To search for multiple categories simultaneously, input the respective categories as an array in the value field, and set the relation to in. The API will return all the companies with a category matching any of the provided inputs.

For example, the following filter returns all companies in the "IoT" or "Tech Companies" business categories.

{
  "attribute": "company_category",
  "relation": "in",
  "value": ["IoT","Tech Companies"]
}

Exclude business categories

You can also use the relation parameter to filter out specific business categories from the search. You have two options: use "not_equals" to exclude a single category, or "not_in" to exclude all the categories from a list.

In the example below, the categories listed in the value parameter ("Graphic Design", "Web Development Agencies" and "Computer Stores") will be excluded from the search.

{
  "attribute": "company_category",
  "relation": "not_in",
  "value": ["Graphic Design","Web Development Agencies","Computer Stores"]
}

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Reference
To view all available filter relations and accepted types, please check the Filter Relations section.