About Us
Revontulet is a mission-driven company building a safer world for all. We map and analyze complex networked behavior online and offline, providing insights, analysis, and data to assist clients in understanding the threats posed to their stakeholders, services, and operations.
Covering the spectrum from toxic discourse and polarization to terrorism, we have contributed to policy development, strategic advice and law-enforcement action. We continuously monitor risks, threats, and abuse of services, conduct research, support the development of policy, strategies, and tools, and conduct tests and exercises to ensure our clients have the best information available to make informed decisions about their safety.
Our research, data, and tailored intelligence have supported civil society organizations in developing campaigns to reduce polarization and municipalities in understanding the dissemination of toxic and harmful discourse in communities, informing efforts to strengthen cohesion and local democracy. Our efforts have supported some of the world's largest social media platforms in dismantling extremist and criminal networks on platforms to improve user safety and contributed to law enforcement successfully foiling planned international terrorist attacks.
Through analysis, intelligence, data, and foresight, we help our clients proactively take the necessary steps to prevent harm.
We work closely with our clients to ensure safety and prevent malicious actors from abusing infrastructure, technologies, and services. We also ensure compliance with policy, ethical, and legal frameworks. We monitor and address social harms, extremism-related risks, and adversarial behaviors across the spectrum, from toxic speech through polarization and conspiracy theories to cyber risks, organized crime, violent extremist activities, and terrorist threats.
Our team comprises social scientists, intelligence analysts, data scientists, developers, and researchers. Rooted in strong ethical frameworks, this multidisciplinary team is built from the ground up to develop and deploy data-driven solutions, cutting-edge technology, and research to offer guidance and support to clients grappling with complex safety challenges.
Together, we can build a safer world for all.
Why Counter Terrorism
Terrorism causes devastating harm.
Lives are lost, and attacks tear communities apart. For our clients, attacks cause significant damage and lasting harm. The targets of terror are often companies, private citizens, civil society, infrastructure, and local communities.
Extremists rely on the same services and infrastructure we do. As a result, service providers face significant regulatory burdens in addition to the risk of harm to personnel, clients, and operations.
Rooted in our work to counter terrorism, we have tackled a spectrum of online and offline harms, ranging from the impact of hate speech and toxicity in local communities through the impact of polarisation, misinformation and interference in national elections to organised crime, trafficking and terrorism finance.
By providing intelligence and analysis, we help you protect your interests against threats of terror and abuse of services, empowering you to take proactive steps to ensure regulatory compliance and increase safety for all.
Breakdown of Targets of Terrorism by Type
Since 2000
Global Terrorism Database
Our Values
Diversity
We define violent extremism as the violent denial of diversity. The antidote to this is the embrace of pluralism. Without a plethora of opinions, perspectives, and experiences, we lose valuable perspectives and our ability to collect and assess essential information representing the true nature of and threats faced by pluralist communities.
Creativity
Creativity is essential to foresight. With creativity and imagination, we can predict the next moves of bad actors, and we can develop new paths to analyse extremist behaviours. Creativity allows us to be ahead of the curve and ensures our ability to meet unprecedented challenges.
Courage
Our field is often driven by fear rather than courage. By being courageous, we don’t allow fear to guide our efforts or draw our attention. Liberty is too often traded for security. By being courageous in our work, we can prevent harm while maintaining clarity, curiosity, and respect for human rights, freedom, and dignity.
A Principled Approach to Safety
Revontulet is a mission-driven company striving to build a safer world for all.
Our mission is our north star, allowing us to take a principled approach to tackling complex challenges together with clients and partners.
By rooting ourselves in this mission, we ensure that we remain:
Global – we want our impact to be felt everywhere, by everyone.
Inclusive – everyone’s safety is equally valued.
Aspirational – we continuously strive to improve safety.
Proactive and protective – by focusing on safety, we seek to proactively protect against potential harm or danger in both the long and immediate term.
Our approach builds on principles of strong democratic institutions, equality, justice, trust, transparency, and inclusivity. This is rooted in globally adopted frameworks such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and International Humanitarian Law.
Our mission closely aligns with our dedication to promoting SDG16, Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions:
By detecting, preventing, and intervening in terrorist, criminal, and dangerous activity, we build peace and increase public safety.
We support justice by improving the conditions for the rule of law and by supporting legal teams to ensure legal action and processes are rooted in expertise and evidence.
We contribute to a healthier information environment, public trust, democratic processes, and decision-making processes rooted in evidence.
These are preconditions for the strength of institutions, for communities to thrive, and for economies to grow.
To adhere to our mission, we strive to ensure that we work with clients who align with our values and approach and who demonstrate respect for democratic principles, diversity, due process, and the rule of law.
As a civilian organization, we focus on supporting the private sector and business community, civil society, and local communities in promoting safety. Our primary focus is on supporting preventative measures that can be adopted in these stakeholder groups to promote safety in line with our overarching principles and without repressive measures. When we discover imminent threats to life, we escalate to local law enforcement through appropriate channels. In every action, we strive to ensure our governmental and law enforcement partners adhere to principles of due process, the rule of law, and adherence to human rights.
The team makes Revontulet the company it is today
Our team has made significant contributions to the field of counterterrorism and the prevention and countering of violent extremism. We have supported law enforcement in the prevention of attacks, contributed to dismantling international extremist networks and worked with partners to develop policies and procedures to mitigate harm. Together with some of the largest tech companies in the world, we have removed the capacity of extremist networks to abuse online services to recruit, coordinate, and spread propaganda.
To achieve this we have fostered a dynamic culture built on trust, and accountability, ensuring that each team-member’s voice matters.
The team has:
Global presence across three continents and four time zones.
Extensive experience and recognition across sectors as leaders in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Counter Terrorism with deep knowledge of extremist networks, ideologies, identifiers and behaviours.
Strong networks and presence throughout the OSINT and counter-extremism field, contributing to local situational awareness, cultural competence, linguistic knowledge and potential outsourcing for local or specialized expertise on a case-by-case basis.
Contributed to taking down several extremist networks and terrorist cells.
Strong academic backgrounds in social science, sociology, criminology and other relevant fields.
Strong technical expertise in database design, database management, data visualization and data analysis, as well as in emerging tech and AI to support the analysis of extremist online content and networked behaviours.
Our Brand
Revontulet is Finnish for “northern lights” and translates to “fox fire.” In Finnish folklore, the aurora stems from the sparks of fur from an arctic fox running across the night sky.
Meanwhile, the name also allows us to reflect on the qualities we embody: The aurora ties together the northern and southern hemispheres, bringing light to our darkest days and expanding across the horizon. Arctic foxes are clever, curious, and playful. While our work spans the globe, the Nordic name allows us to maintain a sense of our roots, from which our global reach and impact grow.
Revontulet continues to take a human-centered approach to building public safety in collaboration with our network of clients and partners as we work with new clients, sectors, and communities toward building a safer world for all.