What Paterva does

Paterva (Pty) Ltd, operating commercially as Maltego Technologies, is a South African-founded software company that builds a unified OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and cyber investigation platform. The company is privately held with no disclosed parent company or institutional funding rounds, and trades under the brand name Maltego. It is headquartered in South Africa (per legal-entity metadata) and serves customers globally across EMEA, APAC, and the broader international market.

The Maltego product suite is a modular platform anchored by Maltego Graph, a link-analysis and data-visualization tool that maps relationships across large datasets, alongside Maltego Search (preliminary OSINT searches across social media, dark web, identity, and breach data), Maltego Monitor (real-time AI-powered sentiment analysis for public safety and cyber threat detection), Maltego Evidence (chain-of-custody capture of social media content, developed with former law enforcement professionals), Maltego Data (a unified gateway to 120+ data partners including SOCRadar, Recorded Future, Virus Total, DomainTools, Constella, PiPL, and Dark Owl), Maltego Cases, Maltego Admin, Maltego Services (custom engineering, advisory, and training), and Maltego Academy. The company also owns Hunchly, a web-capture tool for online investigations.

Maltego generates revenue primarily through enterprise subscriptions to its modular platform, priced annually with enterprise contracts handled via direct field sales. The GTM combines enterprise sales to government agencies, law enforcement, banking, insurance, and large corporations (notably 2,000+ government organizations and 4,000+ private companies, including 60%+ of the Dow 30) with a self-serve community edition for individual investigators, a direct e-commerce storefront at store.maltego.com, and a channel partner / reseller program for regional reach. The user base is reported at 200,000+ worldwide. The company is ISO 27001:2022 certified and was awarded Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Product Leadership Award for Global OSINT Solutions.

Name

Paterva

Legal name

Maltego Technologies

Website

https://paterva.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Paterva (operating as Maltego Technologies) is a South African-founded software company that provides a modular OSINT and cyber investigation platform — combining link analysis, real-time AI-powered monitoring, social media evidence capture, and access to 120+ data partners — to government agencies, law enforcement, banking, and large enterprises globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

OSINT and Cyber Investigation Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Risk Intelligence, Threat Monitoring & Crisis Response (Harmful trends, coordinated abuse) (BPAAALAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Spam, Fake Engagement & Content Abuse Prevention (HDADALAG)

Keywords

• OSINT investigation platform
• Link analysis software
• Cyber threat intelligence
• Digital forensics tools
• Data integration platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Pretoria

HQ country

South Africa

HQ region

Africa

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription: Subscription-based access to Maltego platform products including Graph, Search, Monitor, Evidence, and Data. Pricing tiers likely based on user count and feature access level.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Paterva builds and sells the Maltego OSINT and cyber investigation platform, a modular software suite for gathering data from 120+ partners, performing link analysis on large datasets, monitoring real-time public safety and cyber threats via AI-powered sentiment analysis, and capturing/preserving social media evidence. The platform is sold via enterprise subscriptions, free community editions, and custom engineering services to government agencies, law enforcement, banking, insurance, and corporate security teams.

Product overview

Maltego is a unified OSINT and cyber investigation platform offered as a modular product suite. The core platform consists of Maltego Graph (the primary investigation and link analysis tool), complemented by Maltego Search (preliminary OSINT searches), Maltego Monitor (real-time AI-powered monitoring), and Maltego Evidence (social media evidence capture). Supporting modules include Maltego Data (access to 120+ data providers), Maltego Cases (investigation storage and cross-correlation), Maltego Admin (administrative tools), and Maltego Services (professional services including custom training). Maltego Academy provides on-demand training resources. Together, these products enable intelligence analysts, law enforcement, and corporate investigators to conduct complex cyber investigations from hours to minutes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Maltego Graph: Deep investigation platform for complex OSINT cases and cyber threats with access to external and internal data
• Maltego Search
• Maltego Monitor
• Maltego Evidence
• Maltego Data
• Maltego Cases
• Maltego Academy
• Hunchly

Products and services

• Maltego Graph Core investigation platform for conducting deep investigations into complex OSINT cases and cyber threats with access to external and internal data, enabling complex link analysis of large datasets and visualization of entity relationships.
• Maltego Search Run preliminary OSINT searches on suspects and threat actors in seconds using public data from social media, the dark web, identity databases, and breach data.
• Maltego Monitor Monitor real-time data and use AI-powered sentiment analysis to detect and assess potential and ongoing public safety disruptions and cyber threats.
• Maltego Evidence Quickly uncover new leads by identifying and tracking activities of suspects and potential threats; capture and preserve critical social media data from multiple networks before it disappears.
• Maltego Data Provides instant access to 120+ data providers and partners, enabling seamless access to both internal and external intelligence data in one unified platform.
• Hunchly Web tracking and evidence collection tool for online investigators, integrated as part of the Maltego product ecosystem.
• Maltego Services Custom engineering for specialized Maltego deployment and integrations to suit organization investigative and compliance needs, including Advisory Services (workflow optimization, new use case development), Technical Services (custom deployment and integrations), and Custom Training for investigators and developers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Accelerates complex investigations from hours to minutes
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration29 records

AI capability3 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SOCRadarcoreTechnology or IntegrationData integration partner providing cyber intelligence and attack surface discovery data within the Maltego platform
• Constella IntelligencecoreTechnology or IntegrationDigital risk protection and identity intelligence data partner integrated into Maltego for investigations
• Recorded FuturecoreTechnology or IntegrationThreat intelligence data partner providing real-time threat analysis capabilities within Maltego
• Virus TotalcoreTechnology or IntegrationMalware and URL scanning data partner integrated into Maltego for threat investigation workflows
• DomainToolscoreTechnology or IntegrationDomain and DNS intelligence partner providing WHOIS and domain reputation data
• SplunkcoreTechnology or IntegrationSIEM platform integration allowing Maltego data to flow into Splunk for unified security operations
• Microsoft SentinelcoreTechnology or IntegrationCloud-native SIEM integration for Azure security ecosystems
• ServiceNowcoreTechnology or IntegrationIT service management integration enabling investigation findings to flow into ServiceNow workflows
• PiPLcoreTechnology or IntegrationPerson search and identity resolution data partner for person of interest investigations
• BASFminorOthersEnterprise customer using Maltego for corporate security and brand protection investigations

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Echosec Systems: Echosec Systems offers social-media and location-based OSINT search for corporate security, public safety, and government customers — overlapping Maltego Search and Monitor in the social-media intelligence niche.
• DarkOwl: DarkOwl specializes in dark-web intelligence data — a focused subset of Maltego's broader OSINT platform that competes for security and fraud-investigation budget and is also integrated as a Maltego data partner.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft (Sentinel / Defender): Microsoft Sentinel and Defender integrate OSINT and threat-intelligence feeds natively into a cloud security suite used by many of the same enterprise and government customers that buy Maltego — a broad incumbent that threatens standalone OSINT spend.
• Palantir Technologies: Palantir's Gotham and Foundry platforms serve large government, defense, and intelligence customers with data integration, entity resolution, and link analysis — a broader incumbent that overlaps with Maltego's core OSINT link-analysis capabilities at the high end of the market.
• Splunk: Splunk's SIEM and SOAR products (now part of Cisco) integrate with Maltego via mutual data flows but increasingly bundle OSINT and threat-intelligence features, competing for the same enterprise security operations budget.

Direct peers

• Dataminr: Dataminr provides real-time AI-driven risk detection across public data feeds for corporate security, government, and news customers — a direct competitor to Maltego Monitor for real-time threat and public-safety monitoring use cases.
• Babel Street: Babel Street operates an OSINT and publicly available information analytics platform (Rosette) targeting government, defense, law enforcement, and commercial customers — directly competing with Maltego's link-analysis and entity-resolution capabilities for the same investigator personas.
• Recorded Future: Recorded Future is a leading threat-intelligence platform that aggregates data from the dark web, open web, and technical sources and is integrated into Maltego itself — a peer because it offers overlapping OSINT and threat-intelligence workflows to the same SOC, CTI, and government buyer.
• ZeroFox: ZeroFox delivers external threat intelligence, brand protection, and digital risk protection using OSINT and social-media monitoring — closely overlapping Maltego's corporate security and brand-protection segments including social-media and dark-web data.
• ThreatConnect: ThreatConnect is a threat-intelligence platform combining data aggregation, scoring, and analysis for SOC and CTI teams — competing for the same enterprise threat-analyst budget and increasingly integrating with Maltego's data hub.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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