Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Local development corporations worldwide
RevenueBase identified 456 local development corporations worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 14,410 professional contacts across them, including 4,230 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Chicago the largest hub.
This list covers local development corporations worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for local development corporations follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest local development corporations worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Staffordshire County Council is here to serve its residents by making Staffordshire a great place to work and live.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 751 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 359 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're proud of our 200-year heritage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 332 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tracy is a community where neighbors and local merchants greet you by name and the welcoming never stops.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rovaniemi is an Arctic hometown, the home of northern magic and Arctic know-how.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MassDevelopment, the state’s development finance agency and land bank, works with businesses, nonprofits, banks, and communities to stimulate economic growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Coalition for Responsible Community Development (CRCD) is a place-based nonprofit community development corporation in South Los Angeles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Corporación de Promoción Económica ConQuito, es una corporación privada, que incide en la gobernabilidad del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito con propuestas de políticas…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Municipalidad de Illapel es una corporación autónoma de derecho pública encargada de promover el desarrollo de sus habitantes” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whether you are building a new headquarters, expanding or starting a company, developing real estate, or buying a home, Invest Atlanta offers a wide portfolio of tools, services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Detroit Economic Growth Corporation is a private, non-profit corporation established in 1978 devoted exclusively to supporting Detroit’s economic development initiatives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “America’s Global Village, Hanover Park, is a dynamic community of about residents, Hanover Park is a family-oriented, diverse community with over 80 different nationalities and 30…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We foster public-private relationships and leverage resources that help businesses, communities and individuals reach long-term goals and prosperity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Community Development Foundation (CDF) is a private-nonprofit economic development agency and Chamber of Commerce charged with fostering capital investment and job growth in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Richmond County Economic Development is governed by a seven-member Board of Commissioners & utilizes a non-profit REDC to recruit & expand business in Richmond County Located in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Northside Partnership is a Local Development Company funded by social partners, state agencies and local government.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The City of Whitehall, located just seven miles from downtown Columbus and six miles from John Glenn International Airport, has hit a new stride.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Three Rivers Planning & Development District is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1971 by local government entities and business leaders to promote overall economic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About the City of York: Revolutionary Place To Do Business Based on its demographics, geography, business outlook, tax incentives, extraordinary value, and quality of life, York…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Urban Edge is a community development corporation (CDC) that works in partnership with residents, businesses and government institutions committed to developing and sustaining…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Situated in the eastern hilly portion of Clark County lies the City of Camas, home to approximately 23,100 residents and several large, hi-tech manufacturing industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP) is a not-for-profit local development corporation that serves as the primary champion for Downtown Brooklyn as a world-class business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Liffey Partnership (formerly known as Ballyfermot Chapelizod Partnership) is a community-led local development company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: local development corporations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names local development corporations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of local development corporations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name local development corporations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Local development corporations worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among local development corporations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for local development corporations are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “local development corporations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names local development corporations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among local development corporations, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,230 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Local development corporations by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Local development corporations list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names local development corporations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many local development corporations are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 456 local development corporations worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Staffordshire County Council, headquartered in Stafford, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most local development corporations?
The United States leads with 286 companies, followed by Canada (38). Every local development corporations list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most local development corporations?
Chicago leads with 3 headquartered companies, followed by Dayton (3) and Lowell (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,230 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 456 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.