Linkurious is a software company that provides graph data visualization and analytics software for various use cases such as

financial crime Financial crime is crime committed against property, involving the unlawful conversion of the ownership of property (belonging to one person) to one's own personal use and benefit. Financial crimes may involve fraud (cheque fraud, credit card fr ...

, intelligence,

cybersecurity Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...

data governance Data governance is a term used on both a macro and a micro level. The former is a political concept and forms part of international relations and Internet governance; the latter is a data management concept and forms part of corporate data govern ...

. Linkurious has offices in Montreuil, France and Bethesda, MD, USA.

History

Linkurious was founded in 2013 by Sébastien Heymann, David Rapin and Jean Villedieu following the development of

Gephi Gephi ( ) is an open-source network analysis and visualization software package written in Java on the NetBeans platform. History Initially developed by students of the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC) in France, Gephi has been select ...

, which was inspired by the prototype for Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis project ''Mapping the Republic of Letters'' and looked at connections across thousands of communities in Europe and North America during

The Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment; german: Aufklärung, "Enlightenment"; it, L'Illuminismo, "Enlightenment"; pl, Oświecenie, "Enlightenment"; pt, Iluminismo, "Enlightenment"; es, La Ilustración, "Enlightenment" was an intel ...

Products

Linkurious Enterprise provides case management capabilities as well as detection, data search, visualization and exploration capabilities for various

graph databases A graph database (GDB) is a database that uses graph structures for semantic queries with nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store data. A key concept of the system is the ''graph'' (or ''edge'' or ''relationship''). The graph relat ...

such as

Neo4j Neo4j is a graph database management system developed by Neo4j, Inc. Described by its developers as an ACID-compliant transactional database with native graph storage and processing, Neo4j is available in a non-open-source "community edition" ...

, Azure Cosmos DB, TitanDB,

DataStax DataStax, Inc. is a real-time data company based in Santa Clara, California. Its product Astra DB is a cloud database-as-a-service based on Apache Cassandra. DataStax also offers DataStax Enterprise (DSE), an on-premises database built on Apache ...

, AllegroGraph and RedisGraph. Linkurious' graph visualization tool is used for NASA's Lessons Learned database, identifying connections between seemingly unlikely subjects, such as a correlation between contaminated fluid and battery fire risk.

Applications

Panama Papers

The

ICIJ The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Inc. (ICIJ), is an independent global network of 280 investigative journalists and over 140 media organizations spanning more than 100 countries. It is based in Washington, D.C. with pe ...

used a commercial version of Linkurious and

in the investigation of the

Panama papers The Panama Papers ( es, Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 ...

, uncovering 4.8 million leaked files consisting of emails, 3 million database entries, 2.2 million PDFs, 1.2 million images, 320,000 text files, and 2242 files, evidence of money laundering, tax evasion or political corruption.

Swiss Leaks

The

also utilized the software during the

Swiss Leaks Swiss Leaks (or SwissLeaks) is the name of a journalistic investigation, released in February 2015, of a giant tax evasion scheme allegedly operated with the knowledge and encouragement of the British multinational bank HSBC via its Swiss subs ...

investigation that revealed a massive tax evasion scheme in which 180.6 billion euros passed through

HSBC HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational universal bank and financial services holding company. It is the largest bank in Europe by total assets ahead of BNP Paribas, with US$2.953 trillion as of December 2021. In 2021, HSBC had $10.8 tri ...

accounts.

FinCEN files

In 2020, the

used the software and

to visualize and explore the

FinCEN Files The FinCEN Files are documents from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), that have been leaked to '' BuzzFeed News'' and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and published globally on 20 ...

’ 400 spreadsheets containing data on 100,000 transactions.

Pandora Papers

In 2021, the

leveraged the capabilities of Linkurious and

once more to analyse the data from the

Pandora Papers The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 3 ...

. The leak involved 14 different offshore services firms and 11.9 million records, amounting to 2.94 terabytes. The network visualisations were able to help organise and explain the data.

Justice for Myanmar

The campaign group

Justice for Myanmar Justice For Myanmar (abbreviated JFM) is a covert group of activists campaigning for justice and accountability for the people of Myanmar. Justice for Myanmar's public website launched on 28 April 2020. Since its launch, the group has published a ...

used the software to map the financial connections of the Myanmar military and publish the "Cartel Finance Map".

Obsalytics

The non-profit organizatio
Obsalytics
combined Linkurious and open data to understand the main power structures and financial flows in Syria.

References

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