# TigerGraph

> TigerGraph is a Redwood City-based software company building a native, massively parallel graph database and analytics platform designed to find patterns across deeply connected data in real time. Founded in 2012 by Dr. Yu Xu, it powers fraud detection, anti-money laundering, customer 360, recommendation engines and, increasingly, the relationship-intelligence layer behind enterprise AI and GraphRAG. Its cloud-native platform, TigerGraph Savanna, lets organizations query trillions of edges with the GSQL query language across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founders:** Yu Xu (Founder (former CEO/CTO)), Mingxi Wu (Co-founder), Like Gao (Co-founder), Ruoming Jin (Co-founder), Li Chen (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~230 employees (Apollo data); contracted from a peak of ~430 post-pandemic
- **Products:** TigerGraphDB, TigerGraph Savanna, GSQL, GraphStudio, Graph Data Science Library
- **Notable:** Pioneered native parallel graph technology capable of handling trillions of edges in real time., Designed GSQL, a Turing-complete graph query language (2015)., Raised a $105M Series C in 2021 led by Tiger Global at a reported ~$611M valuation.

## Products & services

- **TigerGraphDB** — Native parallel graph database and analytics platform engineered for hundreds of terabytes of data and trillions of edges, with HTAP (hybrid transactional/analytical) workloads.
- **TigerGraph Savanna** — Cloud-native, fully managed graph database service launched in 2025, with preconfigured kits for fraud detection and customer insights and connectors to Snowflake and Apache Iceberg.
- **GSQL** — A SQL-like, Turing-complete graph query language designed for expressive, parallel graph traversal and analytics.
- **GraphStudio** — Visual UI for modeling schemas, loading data, and exploring/visualizing graphs without writing code.
- **Graph Data Science Library** — Built-in library of graph algorithms and graph machine learning / graph neural network tooling for analytics and AI.
- **Community Edition** — Free edition for developers, students and researchers to learn and build on TigerGraph.

## Achievements

- Pioneered native parallel graph technology capable of handling trillions of edges in real time.
- Designed GSQL, a Turing-complete graph query language (2015).
- Raised a $105M Series C in 2021 led by Tiger Global at a reported ~$611M valuation.
- Powers fraud, AML and customer-360 workloads at major banks and Fortune 500 enterprises.
- Launched TigerGraph Savanna in 2025 to position graph as core AI/GraphRAG infrastructure.

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Published work on 'Agentic GraphRAG,' uniting graph reasoning with semantic search for verifiable AI retrieval.
- **2025-07** — Raised an additional, undisclosed funding round (categorized as private equity).
- **2025-01** — Made TigerGraph Savanna generally available - a cloud-native graph platform with fraud/customer-insight kits and Snowflake & Iceberg connectors.
- **2024-08** — Appointed Rajeev Shrivastava as CEO (formerly of Google and NICE inContact).

## Links

- Website: https://www.tigergraph.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigergraph
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/tigergraphdb
- GitHub: https://github.com/tigergraph
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TigerGraph
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/TigerGraphDB/

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Last updated: 2026-06-20