Neo4j raises $325M series F
I&#x27;ve done development on an app with Neo as the back end, and what I liked about it was mainly py2neo and the cypher query language. Even after developing in it, approaching another graph in DGraph was conceptually impenetrable, as my impression of dgraph was they had a bunch of unnecessary and poor abstractions in their documentation. The next candidate is the redis graph, but I haven&#x27;t. With Neo, if you learn cypher, you literally don&#x27;t need to know anything else about it to be useful in it, which brings me to what I think their real market is.<p>The opportunity I understood after using Neo was the big product play would be a kind of mental shift for enterprise data analyst users whose jobs exist in excel&#x2F;powerbi today with power users using Cognos, and less devops&#x2F;SaaS company&#x2F;etc.  I over-use Apple as an example, but if Apple entered into enterprise data products, Neo would be the kind of thing to be the underlying tech for it, as if you are an apple user, an apple&#x27;ey analytics tool would be based on users producing and reasoning about their data with graphs instead of tables, if you could imagine a kind of photoshop for data, or a fundamental conceptual change from spreadsheets to graphs. They aren&#x27;t as competitive as a data tool, but I think they are unrivaled as a knowledge tool.<p>The tech is really great, but the product piece appears to have been a challenge because the use cases for graphs have been very enterprise&#x27;y, which has limited adoption because people who operate at that higher business logic level of abstraction that graphs enable are not the people picking and adopting new technologies. The growth will come from younger people who learned python in high school, and have a more data centric world view. Maybe that&#x27;s the play.<p>Anyway, as a user I can see why they got participation on an F round. Imo, they&#x27;ve solved the what&#x2F;how&#x2F;why and have done some amazing science and engineering, and what I hope that money buys them is some magic.