How Swedish Startup Neo Technology Helped Crack The Panama Papers
Every start-up hopes for a lucky break. Swedish company Neo Technology only found out it was getting one the day the Panama Papers made headlines around the world.
Journalists with access to the vast trove of data used the firm's open-source database to make sense of 11.5 million documents, including emails, images, and spreadsheets, leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
Neo Technology's "graph database" literally connected the dots for them, helping find names of the rich and powerful and linking them to offshore accounts.
"I was blown away," co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem said of the moment he discovered, just hours before publication, that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) had been using his product for the Panama Papers.
"It's such a ...