Emil Eifrem sketched what today is known as the property graph model on a flight to Mumbai in 2000. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Neo4j and a co-author of the O’Reilly book Graph Databases, he’s devoted his professional life to building and evangelizing graph databases.
Committed to sustainable open source, Emil guides Neo4j along a balanced path between free availability and commercial reliability. He plans to save the world with graphs and own Larry’s yacht by the end of the decade. Emil tweets at @emileifrem.
I am so excited to welcome Alyson Welch, Neo4j’s new Chief Revenue Officer, to our company and community! Alyson will lead our global field and partner operations, services, and customer success organizations. Alyson’s track record for leading revenue organizations for success from $100MM... read more
I couldn’t be more excited to welcome Chandra Rangan, Neo4j’s new Chief Marketing Officer, to our company and community. This role is essential as we continue to evolve globally and expand across industries. With graph technology exploding – and Neo4j on the frontlines of that growth... read more
Update: Patrick now serves on the Board of Directors of Twitter as an independent director. It is my pleasure to announce that Patrick Pichette has joined the Neo4j Board of Directors. Patrick is a partner at Inovia Capital, former CFO at Google, and currently the Board Chair at Twitter... read more
Editor's Note: This blog originally appeared on the Emil Eifrem blog on June 17 2021. Man. I could not be more excited. On the same day that Neo4j burst through the trillion-relationship barrier in my NODES 2021 keynote demo, we are also announcing the largest investment round – not just in... read more
It is my pleasure to introduce Kristin Thornby, our new VP of People at Neo4j. Kristin is a passionate People leader, and has built award-winning cultures from the ground up in a multitude of company environments. She focuses relentlessly on company culture and creating innovative systems and... read more
This post originally appeared on the Emil Eifrem blog on 6 November 2019. I am so thrilled to announce Neo4j AuraDB, the first fully managed native graph Database as a Service (DBaaS). Aura is an entirely new, built-from-the-ground-up, multi-tenant graph DBaaS based on Neo4j. It lets any... read more
This post originally appeared on the Emil Eifrem blog on 24 June 2019. Just last month, we had a great opportunity to be part of a larger conversation around AI standards. In particular, we responded to a request for information (RFI) from the United States National Institute of Standards and... read more
It's official: To a sold-out crowd at Google Cloud Next '19 today, we've formally announced a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud that delivers Neo4j as a fully managed service deeply integrated with the Google Cloud Platform. Now every GCP user has access to graph superpowers –... read more
Just yesterday, I got to announce the addition of Denise Persson – CMO at Snowflake – to the Neo4j Board of Directors. Today, I get to announce another incredibly important executive appointment: Mike Asher has joined Neo4j as our inaugural chief financial officer (CFO). Since Mike works... read more
It is my pleasure to introduce the newest member of the Neo4j Board of Directors: Denise Persson. Denise is the Chief Marketing Officer at Snowflake Computing, one of the hottest companies in the data space – and like Neo4j, also based in San Mateo, California(!). Denise and I got to sit... read more
I'm thrilled to announce that Neo4j has just closed $80 million in a series E funding round. We are happy to welcome One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital to the graph of Neo4j funders. I'd also like to thank all of our existing investors who participated in this... read more
You're reading this because of a napkin. It was the year 2000, and I was on a flight to Mumbai. Peter, Johan and I had been building an enterprise content management system (ECM) but kept running up against the challenge of using an RDBMS for querying connected data. That's when an idea... read more
This post originally appeared on Emil Eifrem's CEO blog on 1 December 2017. Graph technology has come a long way, and today the transformative nature of graphs is publicly visible through examples such as financial fraud detection in Panama and Paradise papers, contextual search and retrieval of... read more
Effective today, Neo Technology is officially changing its name to Neo4j, Inc. Why We're Changing Our Company Name By becoming Neo4j, Inc. we now accept that it is how the world has always known us, and we're updating our legal name to reflect that reality. Today's announcement also... read more
SAN MATEO, Calif. – APRIL 1, 2017 – It's the first day of the new quarter, and it's time for some fresh change here at the Neo4j headquarters. Just like last year, we thought we'd break this news at GraphConnect Europe, but important news can't always wait, especially news this big. Back in... read more
I'm incredibly excited to announce that the Neo4j team has just raised $36 million in a series D funding round. I am glad to welcome Greenbridge Investment Partners to the graph of Neo4j investors, and I'd like to thank all existing investors who also participated in this round, including... read more
Members of the global elite (and everyone else) witnessed first-hand the power of big data analysis earlier this week with the worldwide announcement of the largest data leak in recorded history: the Panama Papers. Led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), this... read more
A funny thing happened four-ish weeks ago. On March 1st, the database industry monitor DB-Engines published their usual monthly ranking report for the world's most popular database management systems. For the first time, Neo4j was listed in the top 20. This is certainly a moment of pride... read more
If you haven’t just heard the news from my keynote presentation at GraphConnect San Francisco, you missed what I believe is going to be a defining moment not only for Neo4j but the entire world of graph technologies. Setting aside a few small but smart players such as the former Aurelius team... read more
Originally published for Silicon Angle Why Graph Databases are Perfect for the Internet of Things Goldman Sachs recently posited that the Internet of Things, the so-called “Third Wave of the Internet,” will “transform the way we live and work” as it opens up “a... read more
Congratulations to Aurelius on the news of your recent acquisition! The Aurelius team has always been our companions in promoting the value of relationships in data, and I wish you all the best as you embark upon the journey of building a new graph database. To our friends at DataStax, not only... read more
2014 has been an amazing year for graph database adoption and for us here at Neo Technology. We reached the milestone of more than 500,000 downloads since the launch of Neo4j 2.0 last January. We saw thousands of production deployments and expanded our global community of enthusiastic and... read more
About a week ago, following NOSQL East in Atlanta, Jonathan Ellis from the Cassandra project published a fantastic overview of the current NOSQL ecosystem. He analyzes 10 popular NOSQL databases along three axes: horizontal scalability, data model and internal persistence design. It’s a great... read more
So TechCrunch spilled the beans with a nice writeup and the genie is officially out of the bottle: Two weeks ago today, we closed a $2.5M seed stage investment with kickass VC firms Sunstone Capital and Conor Venture Partners. As our friends and family know, we have danced the wonderful VC dance... read more