About Neo Technology

Makers of Neo4j

Neo Technology enables organizations to unlock the business value of connections, influences and relationships in data: through new applications that can adapt to changing business needs, and by enabling existing applications to scale with the business. Headquartered in San Mateo, USA, Neo Technology has offices in Sweden, UK, Germany, and France.

Our Vision

We Help the World Make Sense of Data

Whether we want to understand relationships between customers, elements in a telephone or data center network, entertainment producers of highly connected data will be key in determining which companies outperform their competitors over the coming decade.

Neo4j – The History

2000 – Neo’s founders encountered performance problems with RDBMS and started building the first Neo4j prototype
2002 – Developed the first ever version of Neo4j
2003 – First 24×7 production Neo4j deployment
2007 – Formed a Swedish-based company behind Neo4j. Also open sourced the first graph
database, Neo4j, under the GPL
2009 – Raised seed funding from Sunstone and Conor and continued development
2010 – Released Neo4j version 1.0
2011 – Raised A round and moved headquarters to Silicon Valley.

Today, thousands of organizations from startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Neo4j to build new and innovative applications that leverage connections in data such as recommendations, impact analysis for network and IT operations, real-time routing for logistics and the next generation business applications such as master data management, identity and access management, content management, fraud detection, portfolio and risk management.

Neo4j – The Groundswell

The Neo4j community is the world’s largest Graph ecosystem comprising of hundreds of thousands of developers and over 1M downloads. We have trained over 15,000 developers through our online and classroom training programs. With over 16,000 meetup group members in 25 countries, Neo4j meetup is the largest grassroots gathering of graph database enthusiasts.

Awards and Analyst Mentions

Awards

2014 & 2013 InfoWorld Technology of the Year
2014 & 2013 IDG InfoWorld Bossie award
2014 SD Times 100 “Best in Show””
2013 Database Trends & Applications 100 Companies That Matter Most in Data
“The leading system among Graph DBMSs is Neo4j” -DB-Engines

Analyst mentions

2013 Gartner’s Who’s Who in NOSQL DBMSs
2014 Gartner Cool Vendor in DBMS
Neo Technology – The Rise of the Graph Database – Robin Bloor, The Bloor Group (2013)
2014 Forrester TechRadar™: Enterprise DBMS
No NoSQL: Neo’s GraphConnect shows graph databases coming into their own – Matt Aslett, 451 Research (Dec 2013)