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How do I find companies by industry, federal state and size?

Narrow 2.3 million companies down to your target set and keep it as a list.

What you need

Free plan no Implicents

You need an account in the Implisense Platform. The free plan costs nothing and asks for no payment details — 100 Implicents to start, then 25 a month.

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Steps

  1. 1

    Describe, do not name

    Instead of a company name, type what the companies do — for example „assembly systems feeding technology“. Every company is stored as a vector and the search matches meaning. That is how you find the company whose name gives nothing away.

  2. 2

    Add the filters

    Industry via the WZ code (28 for mechanical engineering, say), plus federal state, city, postcode and size class. Filters combine and can be removed one at a time.

  3. 3

    Watch the hit count

    The number above the results is shown on both plans and moves with every filter. Compare it before and after filtering — it is the fastest route to a workable segment.

  4. 4

    Bookmark the hits

    The bookmark on a result card moves a company into a list. Bookmarking costs nothing, and the list is the working unit for everything that follows.

What you see

FilterWhat you give it
IndustryWZ code as a prefix, with suggestions — 28 (mechanical engineering), 62 (IT services), 41.20 (building construction)
Federal stateone or more of the 16 states
Cityvia the suggestion list
Postcodea one- to five-digit prefix, so 10 covers central Berlin and its surroundings
Size classmicro (up to 10) · small (10–49) · medium (50–249) · large (250+)

Searching, filtering and bookmarking cost no Implicents. You can search all day without a meter running.

How you know it worked

The hit count is in a range a human can work through, and among the first results are companies whose names you would not have guessed. Those are exactly the ones a keyword search never finds.

The honest limit

The free plan shows the first page of 20 results; Plus pages through up to 1,000. Not “all” — the 1,000 ceiling applies to both plans, and anyone who needs more goes through a list and the export rather than the pager. The hit count itself stays visible either way, so you can see how large your market is.

There is no filter on the incorporation date. “Companies founded in the last 30 days in Bavaria” cannot be built in the search today.

On the free plan all lists together hold 200 distinct companies across 3 lists and three searches can be saved; Plus makes lists, companies and saved searches unlimited.

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100 Implicents to start, no payment details. Search, building lists and uploading your own customer file cost nothing.

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