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.
Posted: 05 October 2023
We're excited to launch the new GenAI stack for building GenAI-powered applications with Neo4j, Docker, LangChain and Ollama.We're excited to launch the new GenAI stack for building GenAI-powered applications with Neo4j, Docker, LangChain and Ollama. Learn more →
Posted: 04 April 2023
Today, we welcome Sudhir Hasbe as our new Chief Product Officer at Neo4j! Sudhir is a highly accomplished technology executive with a wealth of experience in the software industry. We’re thrilled to have him on board to guide the evolution… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 04 January 2023
I'm so excited to welcome Alyson Welch, Neo4j’s new Chief Revenue Officer, to our company and community!I'm so excited to welcome Alyson Welch, Neo4j’s new Chief Revenue Officer, to our company and community! Learn more →
Posted: 10 May 2022
We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Chandra Rangan, Neo4j’s new Chief Marketing Officer, to our company and community.We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Chandra Rangan, Neo4j’s new Chief Marketing Officer, to our company and community. Learn more →
Posted: 09 November 2021
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 – to say his experience and leadership is a phenomenal fit at Neo4j is an understatement. 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 – to say his experience and leadership is a phenomenal fit at Neo4j is an understatement. Learn more →
Posted: 17 June 2021
Check out Neo4j CEO and Co-Founder Emil Eifrem's thoughts on raising the largest funding round in database history.Check out Neo4j CEO and Co-Founder Emil Eifrem's thoughts on raising the largest funding round in database history. Learn more →
Posted: 06 November 2019
Discover unique features of Neo4j Aura, the first fully managed native graph database as a service, and why it was built to be developer friendly.Discover unique features of Neo4j Aura, the first fully managed native graph database as a service, and why it was built to be developer friendly. Learn more →
Posted: 24 June 2019
Learn what Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem believes is the most critical component of both technical and ethical standards for AI – and how we might make it happen.Learn what Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem believes is the most critical component of both technical and ethical standards for AI – and how we might make it happen. Learn more →
Posted: 09 April 2019
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 01 November 2018
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 20 September 2018
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 01 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 historical information in NASA’s knowledge graph… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 31 January 2017
It was the evening of November 9th, 2016 – the day after the U.S. presidential election – and I was sitting down with my daughter’s preschool teacher, and the stories she was about to tell me would quickly eclipse the typical topics of any parent-teacher conference.It was the evening of November 9th, 2016 – the day after the U.S. presidential election – and I was sitting down with my daughter’s preschool teacher, and the stories she was about to tell me would quickly eclipse the typical topics of any parent-teacher conference. Learn more →
Posted: 15 April 2016
Note: I’ve decided to launch my personal blog on the 309th birthday of Leonhard Euler, the father of graph theory. We’ve come a long way with graphs from his first paper on The Seven Bridges of Königsberg. I believe that… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 05 October 2023
We're excited to launch the new GenAI stack for building GenAI-powered applications with Neo4j, Docker, LangChain and Ollama.We're excited to launch the new GenAI stack for building GenAI-powered applications with Neo4j, Docker, LangChain and Ollama. Learn more →
Posted: 04 April 2023
Meet Sudhir Hasbe, Neo4j's new Chief Product Officer, bringing vast expertise from Google Cloud to drive innovation & growth in the graph space.Meet Sudhir Hasbe, Neo4j's new Chief Product Officer, bringing vast expertise from Google Cloud to drive innovation & growth in the graph space. Learn more →
Posted: 04 January 2023
We're so excited to welcome Alyson Welch, Neo4j’s new Chief Revenue Officer, to our company and community! We're so excited to welcome Alyson Welch, Neo4j’s new Chief Revenue Officer, to our company and community! Learn more →
Posted: 10 May 2022
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 09 November 2021
It is our pleasure to announce that Patrick Pichette – partner at Inovia Capital, former CFO at Google, and currently the Board Chair at Twitter – has joined the Neo4j Board of Directors.It is our pleasure to announce that Patrick Pichette – partner at Inovia Capital, former CFO at Google, and currently the Board Chair at Twitter – has joined the Neo4j Board of Directors. Learn more →
Posted: 17 June 2021
Check out Neo4j CEO and Co-Founder Emil Eifrem's thoughts on raising the largest funding round in database history.Check out Neo4j CEO and Co-Founder Emil Eifrem's thoughts on raising the largest funding round in database history. Learn more →
Posted: 30 March 2021
Meet our new VP of People, Kristin Thornby, as she talks with our CEO about her role, why she joined Neo4j, and how she plans on shaping Neo4j's culture.Meet our new VP of People, Kristin Thornby, as she talks with our CEO about her role, why she joined Neo4j, and how she plans on shaping Neo4j's culture. Learn more →
Posted: 06 November 2019
Discover unique features of Neo4j AuraDB, the first fully managed native graph database as a service, and why it was built to be developer friendly.Discover unique features of Neo4j AuraDB, the first fully managed native graph database as a service, and why it was built to be developer friendly. Learn more →
Posted: 24 June 2019
Learn what Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem believes is the most critical component of both technical and ethical standards for AI – and how we might make it happen.Learn what Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem believes is the most critical component of both technical and ethical standards for AI – and how we might make it happen. Learn more →
Posted: 09 April 2019
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 13 December 2018
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 11 December 2018
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 01 November 2018
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 20 September 2018
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 01 December 2017
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 27 July 2017
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 01 April 2017
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 10 November 2016
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 06 April 2016
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 29 March 2016
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.… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 21 October 2015
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 25 February 2015
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 05 February 2015
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 15 January 2015
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 15 November 2009
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… Read more → Learn more →
Posted: 28 October 2009
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… Read more → Learn more →