Neo4j, Inc. is a global graph intelligence company that provides technology for analyzing and managing connected data. The company is best known for creating the Neo4j Graph Database, a graph database management system (GDBMS) implemented in Java and accessible from other languages via the Cypher query language through a transactional HTTP endpoint or the binary Bolt protocol. Graph databases like Neo4j are used in AI applications to represent and query relationships within connected data, supporting use cases such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs.
Founded in 2007 in Sweden as an open source project by Emil Eifrem, Johan Svensson, and Peter Neubauer, the company was inspired by a sketch Eifrem drew on a napkin during a 2000 flight. The name combines "Neo" (new) with "4j" (a Java community convention for "for Java"), originally called "Project Neo." Neo4j helped popularize the term "graph database," creating a new market category. As of 2024, the company was valued at $2.2 billion, with over 800 employees and 1,700 customers globally, including more than 300 enterprise customers such as Adobe, Microsoft, Walmart, UBS, and Daimler Truck.
History
Neo4j, Inc. is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with locations in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, and Australia. The company relocated to Silicon Valley in 2011, while its engineering hub remained in Sweden. In 2016, the Neo4j graph database was used in the analysis of the Panama Papers, a data leak exposing offshore financial structures. In 2017, NASA acknowledged Neo4j's contribution to Project Orion for retrieving missing data from the Apollo program. The company launched its Graphs4Good program in 2018 to support social impact, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, it supported vaccine product development.
By 2025, 84 of the Fortune 100 and over half of the Fortune 500 used Neo4j's software, including in AI systems at Uber, Walmart, and Daimler Truck. In 2025, Neo4j announced a $100 million investment in generative AI, including a startup program supporting 1,000 AI-focused companies; program members include Medium, Shutl (acquired by eBay), and SOUQ (acquired by Amazon). In 2026, the company acquired GraphAware, an intelligence analysis software provider for government agencies, as part of its AI investment. Neo4j participates in the AI Alliance and engages with Linux Foundation projects focused on open-source data and AI ecosystems.
Funding
Neo4j raised $10.6 million in Series A funding led by Fidelity Growth Partners Europe in 2011. Subsequent rounds included $11 million Series B (2012, Sunstone Capital), $20 million Series C (2015, Creandum and Dawn Capital), $36 million Series D (2016, Greenbridge Partners), and $80 million Series E (2018, One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital). In June 2021, Neo4j announced $325 million in Series F funding led by Eurazeo and GV (Alphabet's venture capital arm), valuing the company at over $2 billion. In late 2024, the company began preparations for an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq stock exchange. By early 2025, it surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), and in 2026, it remained IPO-ready as market conditions stabilized.
Product Launches and Release History
Neo4j released version 1.0 of its graph database in 2010, followed by version 2.0 in 2013, version 3.0 in 2016, version 3.5 in 2018 (aimed at AI and machine learning), and version 4.0 in 2020 with unlimited scaling, partitioning (sharding), and role-based access. Version 5.0 was released in 2022. In 2022, Neo4j launched Ops Manager, a tool for monitoring global deployments, and in 2023 added vector search to its graph database, expanding contextual search for large language models and generative AI.
In 2025, Neo4j launched agentic AI enterprise offerings, including Neo4j Aura Agent for building, testing, and deploying AI agents, and Aura Graph Analytics for cloud data warehouses and data lake platforms such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL, OneLake, Databricks, Snowflake, and Google BigQuery. In September 2025, Neo4j introduced Infinigraph, a scalable graph database architecture designed for operational, analytical, and AI workloads at over 100 terabytes and billions of nodes.
Partnerships
In March 2024, Neo4j and Microsoft announced a collaboration to integrate graph database capabilities into Azure AI services, including Fabric and Azure OpenAI. This integration lets users build knowledge graphs, supporting AI use cases such as GraphRAG. In June 2024, Neo4j integrated with Snowflake to enable graph analytics and machine learning within the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, allowing users access to 65 graph algorithms using SQL.
Licensing and Editions
Neo4j has multiple editions for its self-managed and fully managed offerings. As an ACID-compliant transactional database with native graph storage and processing, the Neo4j graph database is available in three editions: Community Edition (free and open source), Enterprise Edition, and Infinigraph Edition.