Pandora Intelligence

About Pandora Intelligence

Pandora Intelligence, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands, has developed a threat intelligence platform that assists organizations in transforming data into actionable narratives. The company's foundation is rooted in the work of its founders, Professor Dr. Peter de Kock and Peter Rakké. De Kock's journey began in film and led to a career in law enforcement, where he pioneered using creative scenarios for crime detection, culminating in his Ph.D. in 2014. Concurrently, Rakké, a seasoned CTO, was developing methods for computers to analyze large datasets using ontological frameworks. Their combined expertise forms the basis of the company's methodology.

The firm operates on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, providing a platform that can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud. This ENGINE utilizes an AI-powered ontology and a narrative approach, inspired by the movie industry, to create predictive and actionable intelligence from diverse and dynamic data. The system identifies story elements and relationships within data to uncover narratives, enabling users to analyze, compare, and even predict outcomes of emerging events. The platform is designed to handle large volumes of data, visualizing geospatial, temporal, and relational information simultaneously to provide a clear overview of complex situations. This allows clients to make more informed and responsible decisions.

Pandora Intelligence serves a global client base that includes governments, law enforcement agencies, and enterprises in sectors like airlines and financial institutions. Its product suite addresses various security risks, offering solutions such as Cargo Intelligence, Subversive Crime Intelligence, Crisis Intelligence, and Customer Due Diligence. The Cargo Intelligence tool, for example, automates the screening of cargo shipments by assessing the air waybill or bill of lading and correlating it with numerous data sources to identify compliance and safety risks. This has been shown to increase risk detection by over 18% and reduce false positives by more than 84%. In 2023, Joost van Hest, with experience from Salesforce and British Telecom, took over as CEO to guide the company's next phase of growth. The company has raised a total of $10.6M in funding from investors including Heligan Investments and Brooklyn Ventures.