A List of Business Entity Type

Weijing Jay Lin
1 min readDec 6, 2023

We are more focusing on running business in the US. There are several different types of business you can register.

Most of new business owner would start the business from LLC, which is most affordable and easy type of business entity.

Here is some of other business types (48):

  • Association
  • Attorney for Bar
  • Benefit Corporation
  • Benefit LLC
  • Benefit Professional Corporation
  • Close Corporation
  • Close Limited Liability Company
  • Close Professional Corporation
  • Cooperative
  • Cooperative Association
  • Cooperative Association (For-Profit)
  • Cooperative Association (Nonprofit)
  • Corporation Sole
  • DAO LLC
  • Doing Business as Name
  • Exempt Nonstock Corporation
  • Farm Corporation
  • Farm LLC
  • Foundation
  • General Partnership
  • Individual
  • Limited Cooperative Association
  • Limited Liability Limited Partnership
  • Limited Liability Partnership
  • Limited Partnership
  • Low-Profit Limited Liability Company
  • Massachusetts Trust
  • Mutual Benefit Enterprise
  • Mutual Benefit Nonprofit Corporation
  • Nonprofit Corporation
  • Nonprofit Limited Liability Company
  • Personal Attorney
  • Professional Corporation
  • Professional Limited Liability Company
  • Professional Limited Liability Limited Partnership
  • Professional Limited Liability Partnership
  • Professional Limited Partnership
  • Public Benefit Corporation
  • Public Benefit Nonprofit Corporation
  • Registered Limited Liability Partnership
  • Religious Nonprofit Corporation
  • Series Limited Liability Company
  • Series Professional Limited Liability Company
  • Sole Proprietorship
  • Subsidiary Series LLC
  • Sustainable Business Corporation
  • Telehealthcare
  • Trust

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Weijing Jay Lin

A software engineer entrepreneur in San Francisco Bay Area.