WireScreen is a business intelligence platform built to map and decode China’s global business networks. We maintain one of the world’s most comprehensive Chinese corporate datasets — over 15 million companies and 25 million individuals. Using those records, we reveal hidden ownership, affiliations, and risks that others miss — enabling our customers to make confident, informed decisions in complex, high-stakes environments.
Our journey at WireScreen took root as our co-founder, David Barboza, was uncovering deep-seated corruption within China’s ‘princeling’ networks during his tenure as a Shanghai correspondent at The New York Times.
In his pursuit of truth, David spent five years sourcing, collating, and interpreting thousands of corporate records by hand. Armed with this meticulously gathered information, he uncovered an intricate web of connections exploited by China’s ruling elite to accumulate massive amounts of wealth.
This relentless investigation earned him the coveted Pulitzer Prize.
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But his work also sparked an idea: What if we could build a new type of data analytics platform that employs software to shine deeper insights on how companies do business globally? Never again would anyone need to manually collect and combine corporate data.
Our mission: To equip businesses, regulators, and consumers with unparalleled insights. Greater corporate transparency is on the horizon!
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WireScreen was founded in 2019. It is a division of The Wire Digital Inc., a news and data startup based in New York City. Its affiliated company is The Wire China, a weekly digital magazine.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who previously worked at The New York Times, David has more than 15 years of experience covering China and using corporate records.
A former financier who worked in private equity, Lynn has spent more than a decade analyzing corporate data. She studied chemistry and finance in China and Japan.
Young was the VP of Engineering at Maven Clinic and was a senior engineering leader at Gilt.com, BaubleBar and Hudson's Bay Company. He also worked at Dow Jones & Co., and studied computer science at Case Western Reserve University.
An experienced revenue leader, Brad has built teams serving sophisticated clients at FactSet and Factor Law. He studied Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics at UPenn.
A senior engineer who has worked at Google, Twitter, and Kensho, the AI company acquired by S&P. Leonid earned his PhD in computer science from M.I.T.
We are fortunate to work with some of the leading venture capital firms.
