Newly formed companies are a classic prospecting target: they need a bank, insurance, a website, signage and an accountant. In Florida you do not have to buy that information. The state publishes new filings itself, each work day and at no charge. This guide shows where to find them, what form they take and where the limits are.
How many new filings there are
The Division of Corporations publishes the number of new business entity filings per calendar year (Sunbiz, Yearly Statistics, as read on October 11, 2026):
| Year | All entity types | Domestic LLCs | Domestic profit corporations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 670,459 | 561,143 | 67,082 |
| 2024 | 641,597 | 526,475 | 76,373 |
| 2023 | 689,971 | 562,716 | 87,210 |
| 2022 | 669,679 | 533,137 | 93,537 |
| 2021 | 678,240 | 532,137 | 104,625 |
| 2020 | 524,734 | 398,575 | 98,816 |
| 2019 | 439,528 | 310,854 | 95,771 |
Three things stand out. The volume is large: 670,459 filings in 2025, after 641,597 in 2024, or roughly 2,700 per work day if spread over 250 work days. It has grown sharply: in 2019 the total was 439,528. And the growth is an LLC story: domestic LLC filings rose from 310,854 to 561,143 over that period, while filings of domestic profit corporations fell from 95,771 to 67,082. In addition, the division recorded 113,154 fictitious name registrations in 2025.
Where the state publishes new filings
The division offers two kinds of free data downloads (Sunbiz, Data Downloads). For new filings the relevant one is the daily file: “Daily files are generated on work days and contain the filings added to our record that day. If no filings were added to our database (for example on holidays or during office closures), no file will be generated. The date in the file name (yyyymmdd) is the date the information in the file was entered into our database” (Sunbiz, Daily Data).
The daily page lists the files for each register:
- Daily corporate filings and daily corporate events. Corporate data “includes corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships. It does not include trademarks.”
- Fictitious name filings and events, that is, “doing business as” names registered under Fla. Stat. § 865.09.
- General partnership filings and events, federal tax lien files and mark filings.
The files can be downloaded through a browser or a secure FTP client. The public access details are posted on the division's download pages; we do not repeat them here because the division may change them.
What a new filing record contains
Daily and quarterly files share one layout. The corporate file definitions describe a fixed-length text record of 1,440 characters. For a new entity, the useful fields are:
- Corporation number (the document number) and corporation name;
- Filing type: domestic or foreign, profit or non-profit corporation, limited partnership, Florida or foreign limited liability company, and a few others;
- Principal address and mailing address;
- File date, defined as the “file date of the formation filing”;
- Registered agent with an address, and up to six officers with title, name and address.
The files have no header row. As the division's data usage guide puts it, “to know the column names, you need to use the file definitions,” and to load a file into a spreadsheet or database you import it as fixed-width text. The document number is the key to keep: “records in different files that have the same document number can be considered the same record.”
Without the files: what the website search offers
If you only need to watch a handful of names, the record search is enough; it searches corporations and LLCs by name, officer, registered agent, ZIP code or street address. We found no “newest first” list for corporations on that page. For fictitious names, the page lists a search by “County for Prior Week,” the closest thing to a weekly county list of new fictitious names that we found on the website.
What a new filing does not tell you
Before you build a campaign on new filings, look at what the record leaves open.
- A new entity is not a new business. A filing creates a legal form. Behind it may be a restaurant about to open, an entity formed to hold one rental property, a reorganization of an existing company or a plan that never gets off the ground. The record does not say which.
- No industry. There is no NAICS code and no business description. Sometimes the name gives a hint; often it does not.
- No phone number, email address or website. A new entity may not have published any of them yet, and the file has no such fields. In practice, new filing data supports postal mail, not email or calls.
- No county field. You get city and ZIP code and have to derive the county yourself. Our table of Florida businesses by county gives official establishment counts per county for orientation.
- Addresses that are not business premises. The principal address of a new LLC can be a home; the registered office can be the address of a commercial registered agent shared by many unrelated companies.
- Foreign entities are not new companies. A “foreign” filing is an existing out-of-state company registering to do business in Florida.
The people in the record
A new filing names individuals: organizers, managers, officers, the registered agent, often with a home address. The fact that these names are public does not make every use of them appropriate.
- Phone and text. If you add phone numbers from elsewhere, the federal rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 CFR § 64.1200) and the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (Fla. Stat. § 501.059) apply, including the do-not-call lists. The number of a new single-owner business may well be a personal cell phone number.
- Email. Commercial email must comply with the CAN-SPAM Act no matter who the recipient is (FTC compliance guide).
- Mail that looks official. The division's consumer notices include warnings titled “Beware Unofficial Websites or Communications by Mail” and “Beware of Suspicious Notices.” If you mail to new businesses, make it unmistakably clear who you are and that you are not a government agency.
The rules are set out in more detail in Cold outreach rules in Florida. Because we are established in the EU, we also treat the names of individuals in these records as personal data.
A practical routine
- Decide what “new” means for you. Formed in the last week, or in the last year and still active? The first calls for daily files, the second for a quarterly file filtered by file date.
- Download and import. Import the fixed-width file using the positions in the file definitions. Keep the document number.
- Filter by filing type. Drop foreign entities and non-profits if you want newly founded commercial businesses.
- Narrow the region. Use ZIP codes of the principal address and map them to counties.
- Accept the gap. Industry and contact details are not in the file. Either you mail to every new entity in a region, or you research the subset that matters.
The general method for the research step is described in How to build a Florida B2B prospect list by industry and county; what the register is and is not, in Is Sunbiz data free?
Frequently asked questions
Is there a list of newly registered businesses in Florida?
Yes, from the state itself. The Division of Corporations answers this in its FAQ: “You can download a list of newly formed business entities or registered fictitious names. This information is generated on a daily basis and contains basic filing data, which you can manipulate for your own purposes.” The downloads are at no charge.
How many new businesses are registered in Florida each year?
The division reported 670,459 new business entity filings for 2025, of which 561,143 were domestic limited liability companies (Sunbiz, Yearly Statistics, as read on October 11, 2026). These are filings of legal entities, not openings of operating businesses.
Can I see new business filings by county?
Not directly for corporations and LLCs: the corporate data file has no county field, only addresses with city and ZIP code. Fictitious name registrations do carry a county, and the record search lists a fictitious name search by “County for Prior Week.”
Do new filings include a phone number or email address?
No. The corporate data file has no fields for a phone number, email address or website. A list of new filings is a list of names, addresses, registered agents and officers.
How quickly does a new LLC appear in the data?
The date in the name of a daily file is, according to the division, the date the information was entered into its database. Daily files are generated on work days; on days with no filings, no file is generated.
Does flfirms.com sell lists of new Florida businesses?
Not as a separate product. The filing date is one of the columns of the Florida Business Database, so selection by filing date is possible. For a raw feed of new filings, the state's free daily files are the right source.
This article is for general information and is not legal advice. The pages of the Division of Corporations were read on October 11, 2026; files, figures and wording can change, so check the current pages before relying on a file description or a figure.
