PenLink, a U.S.-based developer and provider of mission-critical communications, digital evidence collection and analysis software to law enforcement agencies has acquired Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) company Cobwebs Technologies through capital investment partner Spire Capital.
The acquisition of Cobwebs will add industry-leading open-source intelligence capabilities to PenLink’s digital platform to support investigators, analysts, and prosecutors.
PenLink and Cobwebs Technologies will leverage their extensive network of digital intelligence to enhance the analytical capabilities of their investigation solutions. By integrating these solutions, investigators will be able to quickly identify leads and make critical connections across social media, location data, financial records, LPR data, and phone records.
“PenLink is pleased to expand its capabilities to meet the emerging technology demands of modern investigations,” PenLink CEO Kevin Pope said. “By combining the power of Cobwebs Technologies’ AI-powered open-source intelligence and our market-leading digital investigation solutions, PenLink will transform the speed and depth of insights developed across complex criminal investigations.”
Through the acquisition, PenLink will combine each company’s technologies into a unique, end-to-end platform, while remaining headquartered in the United States.
“Investigators and analysts are currently using a variety of siloed tools to perform retrieval, analysis, and presentation of open-source intelligence and digital evidence,” Cobwebs Technologies CEO and co-founder Udi Levy said. “Combining our solutions will empower law enforcement and national security agencies to bring all digital intelligence domains into a single unified platform to drive new levels of insight and efficiency.”
PenLink is American-owned and operated, and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S., founded in 1986. The company develops and provides mission-critical communications and digital evidence collection and analysis software to law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and internationally. In addition to its flagship digital investigation platform, PenLink offers enhanced capabilities, including an interagency data-exchange network, 3-D visualization technology, and artificial intelligence-driven advanced analytics.
Cobwebs Technologies was founded in 2015 and is based in New York. Its’ web intelligence platform searches and analyzes these vast sources to reveal hidden leads and generate insights. The technology Cobwebs uses extracts targeted intelligence from big data using the latest machine learning algorithms, automatically generating intelligent insights, according to its corporate website.
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