Mississippi Secretary of State Business Search

The Mississippi Secretary of State business search is a great search that has many different search options. You can search for any kind of registered business entity, such as LLC, corporations, or partnerships.

Here is the official search page.

If you want a way to search for a business in any state, please feel free to use our verify a business tool here, free of charge. It looks a little like this. It allows you to also easily copy and download the data.

While it is not required to be registered with the MS Secretary of State to do smaller business before you do anything like open a business checking account or get a business loan, you must register with the state. Because it is public you can find business owner information for any business registered in the state of Mississippi.

Mississippi Secretary of State Entity Search

Let’s start searching! I started off searching for pizza. The results came back fast, in maybe 1.5 seconds. Check out the list.

You can see that from their results page it lists a lot of helpful information, notably the entity type, status, and its initial filing date. I especially like that last one, “Pizza Doctor, LLC”. Let’s check that one out.

Clicking the “Details” button opens a modal with additional business information.

This has it all. Business address as well as the address of the officers and the registered agent.

For clarification, a registered agent is someone who is responsible for receiving legal documents. This is often the owner but can also be a third party service, accountant, or lawyer. Officers and directors would be the main decisions makers for the business.

Other Cool Stuff

Mississippi also allows you to view all documents that have been filed with the state. This has things like the articles of organization and annual reports.

Now, let’s real talk. If you open up the filed documents and look for a formation form, you’ll see something interesting in it. A nice, plump business email address for the ower. I blurred it out here. I don’t know why, it’s public information. If you want it, go get it!

One other noteworthy thing is the ability to opt-in to email updates. This is a good way to keep track of when a business has gone delinquent or has become active. Thanks, Mississippi!

Find Business Owner Information

Mississippi offers some different search options compared to other Secretary of States. Some states have the option to search by date range and entity status (looking at you, Washington).

Mississippi has the cool ability to search by both Officer Name and Registered agent. This is a handy feature if you’re looking all of the businesses that an individual might own or be a part of.

Extra Credit

For all of my power users out there. You can access any of this business data via API. This can be handy for things like:

• Business verification
• KYC/KYB (know your business) anti-money laundering
• Business credit check
• Finding business owner information

It’s as simple as this:

let url = `https://apigateway.cobaltintelligence.com/v1/search?searchQuery=${encodeURIComponent(businessName)}&state=${state}`;

const axiosResponse = await axios.get(url, {
    headers: {
        'x-api-key': this.apiKey
    }
});

return axiosResponse.data;

Get a free Secretary of State API key here.

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