Neo4j: A Quick History
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2000
- Neo4j’s founders encountered performance problems with RDBMS and started building the first Neo4j prototype
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2002
- Developed the first ever version of Neo4j
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2003
- First 24×7 production Neo4j deployment
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2007
- Formed a Swedish-based company behind Neo4j. Also open sourced the first graph database, Neo4j, under the GPL
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2009
- Raised seed funding, $2.5M, from Sunstone and Conor and continued development
- First Global 2000 Customer
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2010
- Released Neo4j version 1.0
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2011
- Raised A round and moved headquarters to Silicon Valley
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2012
- Raised $11M Series B from Fidelity, Sunstone, and Conor
- GraphConnect, first conference on graph databases
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2015
- Raised $20M Series C from Creandum with Dawn and existing investors
- 2M+ Downloads of Neo4j
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2016
- Neo4j 3.0 Released
- $36M Series D from Greenbridge Investment
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2017
- Neo4j Desktop Released
- Neo4j announces the industry’s first Graph Platform.
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2018
- Neo4j Bloom Released
- $80M Series E led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital & One Peak Partners
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2019
- Neo4j AuraDB Launched
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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
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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
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2022
- Launched Neo4j AuraDS (Graph Data Science as a Service)
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2023
- Added native vector search to the core graph database for richer GenAI insights and GraphRAG
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2024
- Transformed the Aura cloud portfolio with AI-ready capabilities, including a GenAI co-pilot in Aura Console
- Surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue
- Brought Neo4j Graph Data Science to Snowflake AI Data Cloud
- Partnered with Microsoft to integrate graph capabilities into Azure AI services for GraphRAG
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2025
- Launched Neo4j Aura Graph Analytics for any data platform with zero-ETL graph analytics
- Unveiled Infinigraph for unified operational and analytical workloads at 100TB+ scale
- Announced $100 million GenAI investment, launching Neo4j Aura Agent and MCP Server for Neo4j
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2026
- Announced agreement to acquire GraphAware, launching open-standards intelligence analysis solutions powered by the Neo4j graph intelligence platform
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.