Company:Linkurious

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Linkurious
TypeGraph data visualization and analytics
Industrysoftware
Founded1 January 2013; 13 years ago (2013-01-01) in Paris, France
FounderSébastien Heymann, David Rapin, Jean Villedieu
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
Websitelinkurious.com

Linkurious is a software company specialized in graph-based technology for various use cases such as financial crime, intelligence, cybersecurity, supply chain management or data governance.

Since 2024, Linkurious offers an integrated contextual decision intelligence platform[1] powered by native graph technology and entity resolution AI.

Linkurious works with a variety of world-class technology and consulting partners including Microsoft, Amazon,[2] Neo4j,[3] Nuix,[4] Capgemini, PwC or Deloitte.[5]

The company has offices in Montreuil, France and Bethesda, MD, USA.[6]

History

Linkurious was founded in 2013 by Sébastien Heymann, David Rapin and Jean Villedieu following the development of Gephi, which was inspired by the prototype for Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis project Mapping the Republic of Letters and looked at connections across thousands of communities in Europe and North America during The Enlightenment.[7]

In 2023, Linkurious is listed in the TOP 250 French software companies and receives the "International" award of the Year granted by Ernst & Young and Numeum.[8]

Products

Linkurious technology provides case management capabilities[9] as well as detection,[10] data search, visualization and exploration[11] capabilities for various graph databases such as Neo4j, Azure Cosmos DB, Memgraph, TitanDB, DataStax, AllegroGraph and RedisGraph.[12][13][14][15]

Linkurious has developed a Javascript graph visualization library named Ogma. It provides a graphics engine based on WebGL and supports older machines with HTML5 Canvas.[16]

Linkurious' graph visualization tool is used for NASA's Lessons Learned database, identifying connections between seemingly unlikely subjects, such as a correlation between contaminated fluid and battery fire risk.[17][18]

Applications

Panama Papers

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) used a commercial version of Linkurious and Neo4j in the investigation of the Panama Papers, uncovering 4.8 million leaked files consisting of emails, 3 million database entries, 2.2 million PDFs, 1.2 million images, 320,000 text files, and 2242 files, evidence of money laundering, tax evasion or political corruption.[19][20]

Swiss Leaks

The ICIJ also utilized the software during the Swiss Leaks investigation that revealed a massive tax evasion scheme in which 180.6 billion euros passed through HSBC accounts.[21][22]

FinCEN files

In 2020, the ICIJ used the software and Neo4j to visualize and explore  the FinCEN Files’ 400 spreadsheets containing data on 100,000 transactions.[23]

Pandora Papers

In 2021, the ICIJ leveraged the capabilities of Linkurious and Neo4j once more to analyse the data from the Pandora Papers.[24] The leak involved 14 different offshore services firms and 11.9 million records, amounting to 2.94 terabytes. The network visualisations[25] were able to help organise and explain the data.

Justice for Myanmar

The campaign group Justice for Myanmar used the software to map the financial connections of the Myanmar military and publish the "Cartel Finance Map".[26]

Obsalytics

The non-profit organization Obsalytics combined Linkurious and open data to understand the main power structures and financial flows in Syria.[27]

The Sentry

The Sentry, a US-based investigative and policy organization that seeks to disable multinational predatory networks that benefit from violent conflict, repression, and kleptocracy,[28] uses Linkurious combined with Neo4j graph database to leverage over 150 million pieces of data for their investigations.[29]

Media4change

The "Karštos pėdos" tool developed by the international movement Media4change provides transparency around the connections between politicians and public figures and public-sector funding to journalists and to the general public. The organization used Linkurious technology to demonstrate how national and EU funds are used in Lithuania.[30][31]

References

  1. ↑ "Decision Intelligence Platform Overview" (in en). https://linkurious.com/decision-intelligence-platform-overview/. 
  2. ↑ "Linkurious - Amazon Neptune". https://docs.aws.amazon.com/neptune/latest/userguide/visualization-Linkurious.html. 
  3. ↑ "Linkurious democratizes graph visualization with new product" (in en). https://neo4j.com/news/linkurious-democratizes-graph-visualization-new-product/. 
  4. ↑ "Tackling the chaos of unstructured data using integrated link analysis". https://www.nuix.com/resources/tackling-chaos-unstructured-data-using-integrated-link-analysis. 
  5. ↑ "Deloitte: delivering disruptive technology to more efficiently combat financial crime" (in en). https://linkurious.com/blog/deloitte-technology-financial-crime/. 
  6. ↑ "Connect with us" (in en). https://linkurious.com/contact-us/. 
  7. ↑ Trei, Lisa (June 3, 2016). "Visualization tool prototyped by Stanford humanities scholars aids the investigation of 'Panama Papers' | The Dish" (in en). http://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2016/06/03/visualization-tool-prototyped-by-stanford-humanities-scholars-aids-the-investigation-of-panama-papers/. 
  8. ↑ "Top 250 des éditeurs de logiciels 2024" (in fr-FR). https://www.ey.com/fr_fr/services-aux-entrepreneurs/top-250-editeurs-logiciels-francais. 
  9. ↑ "Manage Cases From End-To-End | Collaborate Seamlessly | Linkurious". https://linkurious.com/case-management-platform/. 
  10. ↑ "Detect Complex Networks | Uncover Hidden Threats | Linkurious". https://linkurious.com/detection-platform/. 
  11. ↑ "Investigate Financial Crime 10x Faster | Explore Connections | Linkurious". https://linkurious.com/investigation-platform/. 
  12. ↑ "Startup Delivers Visual Search Tool for Neo4j Graphs". 2015-04-20. https://www.datanami.com/2015/04/20/startup-delivers-visual-search-tool-for-neo4j-graphs/. 
  13. ↑ "Visualize your Cosmos DB Gremlin API graph data with Linkurious enterprise | Blog Azure et mises à jour | Microsoft Azure" (in fr). 21 November 2018. https://azure.microsoft.com/fr-fr/blog/visualize-your-cosmos-db-gremlin-api-graph-data-with-linkurious-enterprise/. 
  14. ↑ Miller, Ron (12 April 2016). "DataStax adds graph databases to enterprise Cassandra product set". https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/datastax-adds-graph-databases-to-enterprise-cassandra-product-set/. 
  15. ↑ Villedieu, Jean. "Visualize your RedisGraph data with OGMA". https://linkurio.us/blog/visualize-redisgraph-data-with-ogma/. 
  16. ↑ "Ogma quick start". https://doc.linkurious.com/ogma/latest/. 
  17. ↑ Melendez, Steven (2 November 2016). "NASA Is Harnessing Graph Databases To Organize Lessons Learned From Past Projects". https://www.fastcompany.com/3065044/nasa-is-harnessing-graph-databases-to-organize-lessons-learned-from-past-pr/. 
  18. ↑ "Llis". https://llis.nasa.gov/. 
  19. ↑ "How France's Linkurious helped reporters use data visualization to make sense of the Panama Papers". 7 April 2016. http://www.rudebaguette.com/2016/04/07/how-tech-enabled-journalists-to-sift-through-2-6-tb-of-raw-data/. 
  20. ↑ "Wrangling 2.6TB of data: The people and the technology behind the Panama Papers". https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160425-data-tech-team-ICIJ.html. 
  21. ↑ "Linkurious, la pépite révélée grâce aux " Panama Papers "". Les Echos Executives. 5 April 2016. https://business.lesechos.fr/entrepreneurs/communaute/021818665622-linkurious-la-pepite-revelee-grace-aux-panama-papers-209153.php. 
  22. ↑ "SwissLeaks : on n'a soulevé qu'un coin du tapis". 10 February 2015. https://www.lesechos.fr/10/02/2015/lesechos.fr/0204147710591_swissleaks---on-n-a-souleve-qu-un-coin-du-tapis.htm. 
  23. ↑ "From a jumble of secret reports, damning data on big banks and dirty money - ICIJ" (in en-US). 2020-09-20. https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/mining-sars-data/. 
  24. ↑ Peake, Kathryn. "A "Tsunami of Data": the Investigative Technology Behind the Pandora Papers". https://linkurio.us/blog/technology-pandora-papers-investigation/. 
  25. ↑ "The Power Players". The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. 2 October 2021. https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/power-players/. 
  26. ↑ "Cartel Finance Map • Justice For Myanmar". https://data.justiceformyanmar.org/. 
  27. ↑ "Obsalytics: mapping the Syrian regime's connections and financial flows". https://linkurious.com/blog/obsalytics-syrian-regime-financial-flows/. 
  28. ↑ "About The Sentry". https://thesentry.org/about/. 
  29. ↑ The Sentry (Jan 19, 2024). "A brief history of our data visualization: From word documents to interactive graph databases". https://medium.com/the-sentry-sidebar/a-brief-history-of-our-data-visualization-from-word-documents-to-interactive-graph-databases-004994b12c54. 
  30. ↑ "Media4Change: Fostering public sector transparency and press freedom with graph visualization" (in en). https://linkurious.com/blog/media4change-public-transparency/. 
  31. ↑ "Future Story Lab" (in en-US). https://www.media4change.co/projects/future-investigative-story-lab/. 



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