Linkurious

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Linkurious
Company typeGraph data visualization and analytics
Industry software
Founded1 January 2013;11 years ago (2013-01-01) in Paris, France
FounderSébastien Heymann, David Rapin, Jean Villedieu
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
Website linkurious.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.

Contents

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 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]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Panama Papers</span> 2016 document leak scandal

The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that were published beginning on April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. The documents, some dating back to the 1970s, were created by, and taken from, former Panamanian offshore law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, and compiled with similar leaks into a searchable database.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Panama Papers (South America)</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Panama Papers (Europe)</span>

The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. The documents, some dating back to the 1970s, were created by, and taken from, Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, and were leaked in 2015 by an anonymous source.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Panama Papers (Asia)</span> Documents leaked in 2015

The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. The documents, some dating back to the 1970s, were created by, and taken from, Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, and were leaked in 2015 by an anonymous source.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Panama Papers (North America)</span> Details from the Panama Papers concerning North America

The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. The files were uncovered and exposed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and other news organizations. The documents, some dating back to the 1970s, were created by, and taken from, Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, and were leaked in 2015 by an anonymous source.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pandora Papers</span> 2021 leak of financial documents

The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state as well as more than 100 business leaders, billionaires, and celebrities. The news organizations of the ICIJ described the document leak as their most expansive exposé of financial secrecy yet, containing documents, images, emails and spreadsheets from 14 financial service companies, in nations including Panama, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. The size of the leak surpassed their previous release of the Panama Papers in 2016, which had 11.5 million confidential documents and 2.6 terabytes of data. The ICIJ said it is not identifying its source for the documents.

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