# WireScreen

> WireScreen is a New York risk-intelligence company that resolves Chinese corporate, ownership, trade, patent, and procurement records into searchable company profiles and relationship maps for investigators, government agencies, investors, and compliance teams.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** David Barboza (Co-founder and CEO), Lynn Zhang (Co-founder and COO)
- **Products:** WireScreen platform, REST API and curated data feeds, Controlled Capital and SmartCard, Chinese patent intelligence dataset, China-Russia electronics trade dataset
- **Notable:** Built coverage of more than 20 million Chinese companies and 37 million individuals, according to the company., Added 37 million Chinese patent records in 2026., Received 'Awardable' status on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace in April 2026.

## Products & services

- **WireScreen platform** — Searchable entity profiles, ownership tracing, network graphing, risk flags, bulk screening, and monitoring.
- **REST API and curated data feeds** — Enterprise access to graph traversal and selected military, export, forced-labor, and sector risk data.
- **Controlled Capital and SmartCard** — A network-level controlled-capital metric and a compact view of ownership, key people, and risk signals.
- **Chinese patent intelligence dataset** — 37 million patent records joined to roughly one million companies, universities, and research institutes.
- **China-Russia electronics trade dataset** — Trade signals for sensitive electronics corridors and intermediary analysis.

## Achievements

- Built coverage of more than 20 million Chinese companies and 37 million individuals, according to the company.
- Added 37 million Chinese patent records in 2026.
- Received 'Awardable' status on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace in April 2026.
- Published a 2026 investigation drawing on more than 3,800 military and government procurement records and mapping a 374-company commercial ecosystem.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published a briefing on Huawei's recovery and corporate network.
- **2026-08** — Published a shareholding analysis of five leading Chinese AI companies.
- **2026-07** — Added Bryan Ware, David Helvey, and Wayne McCool to its advisory board.
- **2026-06** — Published investigations into PLA GPU procurement and Tsinghua's AI hardware supplier network.
- **2026-03** — Partnered with Senzing and integrated 37 million Chinese patent records.
- **2026-01** — Launched Controlled Capital and SmartCard.

## Links

- Website: https://wirescreen.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wirescreen-ai

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Last updated: 2026-09-29