Neo4j – The Leader in Graph Technology
Neo4j: A Global Top 100 Most Loved Workplace 2023
Newsweek recognizes Neo4j for our commitment to fostering a relationship-focused culture and collaborative ethos. As pioneers of graph technology, we're driven by our mission to help the world make sense of data. At Neo4j, we celebrate intellectual honesty, positive intent, and commitment to our users, making our workplace a supportive environment for growth and fulfillment.
Neo4j: A Quick History
2000
Neo4j’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, $2.5M, from Sunstone and Conor and continued development
First Global 2000 Customer
2010
Released
Neo4j version 1.0
2011
Raised A round and moved headquarters to Silicon Valley
2012
Raised $11M Series B from Fidelity, Sunstone, and Conor
GraphConnect, first conference on graph databases
2015
Raised $20M Series C from Creandum with Dawn and existing investors
2M+ Downloads of Neo4j
2016
Neo4j 3.0 Released
$36M Series D from Greenbridge Investment
2017
Neo4j Desktop Released
Neo4j announces the industry’s first Graph Platform.
2018
Neo4j Bloom Released
$80M Series E led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital & One Peak Partners
2019
Neo4j AuraDB Launched
2020
Neo4j was recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Graph Data Platforms, Q4 2020
GA Release of AuraDB Enterprise
Launched The Neo4j Graph Data Science Library
Formed Graphs 4 COVID-19
Neo4j Online Developer Expo and Summit (NODES) marked our largest digital graph event
Launch of Graphs 4 COVID-19 “GraphHack”, a new Graphs4Good Program initiative to help fight against the spread of the virus
2021
Raised $390M Series F led by Eurazeo with GV, Inovia Capital, and existing investors; it is the largest investment in database history
Launched Neo4j AuraDB Enterprise
Neo4j breaks scale barrier with trillion+ relationship graph
Launched Neo4j AuraDB Free
2022
Launched Neo4j AuraDS (Graph Data Science as a Service)
World of Graphs
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.