Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition
Graph database biz says on-prem, air-gapped intel stack gives governments a no-kill-switch option
"The no-kill-switch kind of thing? It's increasingly becoming a requirement," says Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem.
This is one of the reasons behind the company's decision to buy GraphAware, an intelligence analysis software platform built on the graph database, which is positioning itself as an alternative to Palantir, the controversial US spy-tech biz.
The purchase has been in the offing for a while, but the timing of the announcement was fortuitous for Neo4j.
On the same day, the European Commission presented the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a set of measures to strengthen Europe's capacity in semiconductors, AI, cloud, and open source. It comes amid widespread concern over the dependence European companies and government agencies have on tech vendors subject to US law.
Fears over a "kill switch" for US software were stoked in June 2025, when Microsoft admitted...
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