Uncover hidden ownership, risky
connections, and illicit finance networks.

Investigate with confidence.

Investigation tool for global searching, and visualizing business connections to uncover hidden insights.

Track relevant connections between subjects. Find out who is ultimate beneficial owner.

Save your investigations in the system and export graph as JPG, PDF or CSV.

Find hidden connections, sanctions, and historical data through deep search and analysis.

Check and visualise your partner's close associates and potential risk factors.

From due diligence to complex investigations, YC World empowers teams to detect red flags faster, cut research time, and build trusted intelligence

Verify counterparties, expose corruption risks, and conduct daily AML, KYC, KYCC and KYB checks - all in one platform.

YC World was a great tool to check and search information with its rich database!

Temo Inasaridze

Journalist Samkhretis Karibche

Explore, visualise, and monitor global business networks. YC World maps connections between companies and individuals across borders to uncover hidden ownership and illicit finance

YC World is an international investigation and compliance intelligence platform designed to map corporate and personal relationships for in-depth analysis and defensible decision-making. It is part of the YouControl ecosystem of RegTech tools, now headquartered in the UK.

DataCoverage

We continuously expand coverage, data sources, and entity types - with unmatched depth in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and CIS regions where competitors often lack visibility.

Connections

233 902 754

Entities

262 571 989

People

124 323 479

Companies

127 987 638

Countries

Data Sources

351

Last Update

01.11.2025

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Our goal is to build transparency and resilience by providing sanctions screening, AML, KYB, and KYC capabilities that empower compliance officers to identify and prevent risk. By aligning with ESG principles, we help organisations safeguard supply chains and strengthen integrity.

YC World delivers thorough link analysis across companies and individuals, surfacing hidden connections across jurisdictions. Investigators can map ownership, trace financial flows, and generate evidence-ready insights.

Due diligence redefined: Visualise and document complex ownership structures to validate business legitimacy, identify risk factors, and ensure KYCC compliance.

YC World
advantages

Infinite Graph: Map direct and indirect relationships without depth limits

Cross-border coverage: Connections between companies and individuals across multiple jurisdictions

Beneficial ownership & assets: UBOs and registries of movable property, including yachts and aircraft

233+ mln

Connections for research and analysis with YC World

Custom entities: Create, connect, and save investigations with your own data

Export graph in JPG, PDF or CSV and export entity dossier in PDF or CSV

Global registries: Access data on companies, entrepreneurs, and individuals in international records

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Transliteration and translation: Optimised for Slavic and multilingual names

What makes
us unique

The color codes highlight different types of connections between entities

Customize the depth of connection checks to match your needs

Infinite relationship graph: Explore unlimited depth to reveal hidden or complex ties

Graphical clarity: Visualise large datasets in clear, interactive maps.

Create custom entities, connections and export graph in JPG, PDF or CSV

Investigation workspace: Combine system data with your own; save and export in multiple formats

Multilingual intelligence: Built-in transliteration and translation bridge language barriers.

Choose the original language or English in one click

Automatic transliteration & translation

Built-in automatic transliteration simplifies searching, especially for Slavic names. Automatic translation lets users easily switch between the original language and English.

Markers indicate a «toxic» trace leading to countries that sponsor terrorism or dictatorships that are global outsiders

Risk factor detection

Automated alerts highlight sanctions, PEP ties, jurisdictions of concern, and more.

Trusted innovation: Graph View and Find Relations deliver unique investigative capabilities unmatched by competitors.

Thomas Mangine

Director, AML & Risk Resilience, DAG Consulting

And that's not all...

YC World is designed
to make your compliance routine easier

PEPs

Assess political exposure and corruption risk with a comprehensive global database of PEPs and their associates.

Risk factors

Automatically detect toxic connections, including state-sponsored terrorism, weak AML/CTF jurisdictions, offshore zones, and sanctioned entities.

Sanctions
& war criminals

Protect against sanctioned entities and illicit actors; identify individuals linked to conflict zones or military aggression.

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yourself with

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Automate
your workflows with the YC World API

Insights on a company or individual and their connections in international jurisdictions directly in your work systems. The YC World API can be easily integrated into your workflows and software products (website or desktop application with Internet access). This will allow you to instantly check for risk factors in the company or person with whom you want to do business.

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Obtain information about an entity's ties to PEPs
Access up-to-date connections between entities
Identify the ultimate beneficial owners of companies worldwide
Check for sanctions and connections to sanctioned entities
Discover links to high-risk countries and terrorism sponsors
Retrieve information on companies, individuals, assets, and documents

Who Uses YC World

Compliance officers

Screen counterparties for sanctions, PEPs, and high-risk jurisdictions. Document KYB and KYCC with confidence.

CEOs & COOs

Make informed strategic decisions based on reliable multi-jurisdiction data.

AML & KYC specialists

Trace beneficial ownership, source of funds, and illicit connections. Simplify AML/KYC workflows.

Law enforcement agencies

Expose cross-border networks behind corruption, organised crime, and sanctions evasion.

Journalists & researchers

Conduct independent investigations, uncover offshore structures, and build impactful reports.

Government agencies

Support asset tracing, disclosure, and sanctions enforcement.

Access everything you need in one system trusted data, global coverage, and powerful investigative tools that save time and deliver clarity.

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Join the YC World community and uncover the truth

Discover hidden connections. Strengthen compliance. Build transparency.

3 000+

users have already experienced the benefits of the system

233+ mln

of connections were uncovered during the first year of operation

351

sources of information

Determining the involvement of links has become a key security parameter. Constantly considering this fact, we bring ourselves and society closer to the best version of historical data.

Chris Windley

Chairman and CEO at Cyber Security Association

countries are interested in verification with YC World

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companies

124+ mln

individuals

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