WireScreen
Founded 2019 · 41 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
WireScreen is a risk intelligence platform that maps corporate ownership structures, shell companies, and hidden affiliations by drawing on primary sources such as corporate filings, trade data, patents, and procurement records, with a specialized focus on Chinese corporate networks. It serves government agencies, defense and national security teams, investigators, trade and export compliance teams, and investors conducting due diligence.
Also known as WireScreen.ai
Investors · 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026WireScreen operates a risk intelligence platform focused on identifying the ownership structures and relationships behind global commerce, with a stated specialization in Chinese corporate networks. The platform aggregates hundreds of primary sources — corporate filings, trade records, patents, procurement documents and regulatory disclosures — into a linked network map, applying entity resolution intended to connect entities across renamings and layered structures. It traces investment chains reportedly more than six layers deep to surface state ownership and People's Liberation Army-linked affiliations.
Risk detection features flag high-risk entities and follow their networks across supply chains, joint ventures and shadow structures, including detection of nominee directors, renamed entities and shell companies, and exposure related to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). The company positions the data as supporting compliance with BIS export controls, OFAC sanctions requirements, CFIUS and outbound investment screening, and research security reviews.
Access is offered three ways: an interactive web platform for visual network mapping, a REST API supporting full graph traversal, and curated data feeds covering themes such as military end use, forced labor and sector-specific risk. The company also publishes webinars, special reports, briefings and insights, and maintains materials on the BIS 50% Rule.
Business model
WireScreen sells access to its risk intelligence data and platform to organizations, offered as a web application, an API for integration into customer systems, and subscription data feeds curated around specific risk themes such as military end use and forced labor. Prospective customers engage through a demo request process. [0]
Revenue derives from access to the platform and data: web platform use, API integration, and subscriptions to curated data feeds. [0]
Traction
The website reports use by government agencies, think tanks and enterprises, and features testimonials from a general partner at a large Silicon Valley venture capital firm, a director of global data solutions at a consulting company, and the intelligence analytics company Accrete. It also claims due diligence timelines for CFIUS and BIS reviews reduced from weeks to hours. [0]
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Market position
WireScreen positions itself as providing investigative-grade intelligence on Chinese corporate structures, claiming greater ownership-chain depth and accuracy than other platforms, and citing use by government agencies, investors and compliance teams. [0]
Stated differentiators include the most complete mapping of Chinese corporate structures, specialized entity resolution for accuracy, intelligence sourced from low-visibility environments, and tracing of ownership and investment chains more than six layers deep, together with flexible delivery via platform, API and curated feeds. [0]
Technology
The platform consolidates Chinese corporate filings, trade records, procurement databases and regulatory disclosures, including material gathered from low-visibility environments, into a continuously updated relationship graph. Specialized entity resolution is used to match entities and detect renamed or shadow structures, and investment chains are traversed beyond six layers of ownership. Delivery mechanisms include an interactive mapping interface, a REST API for graph traversal, and curated risk data feeds. [0]
Go-to-market
Go-to-market centers on inbound demo requests from enterprise and government buyers, supported by content marketing including webinars (for example one on the critical minerals industry titled "Elements of Control"), special reports, briefings and events, plus customer testimonials from venture capital, consulting and analytics organizations. [0]
The company targets national security and defense organizations; investigations and enforcement teams pursuing sanctions violations; trade and export compliance functions handling BIS, OFAC and UFLPA obligations; and investors performing due diligence, CFIUS review and outbound investment screening. The site states it is used by government agencies, think tanks and enterprises. [0]
Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsWireScreen announced a webinar titled "Elements of Control" on the critical minerals industry, scheduled for July 10.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- WireScreenwirescreen.ai · web
1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does WireScreen do?
- Risk intelligence platform mapping Chinese corporate ownership networks, shell companies and hidden affiliations.
- Who are WireScreen's investors?
- WireScreen's investors include Harpoon Ventures, Samos Investments, Sequoia Capital.