Trace foreign state-directed investment, influence, and control.
Foreign influence operations run through layered corporate structures, undisclosed agents, and state-directed investment vehicles. Sayari maps the financial and ownership networks that connect activities to their foreign state sponsors.
What Sayari identifies in foreign influence investigations.
State-owned enterprise mapping
Identify when a nominally private entity is owned or controlled by a foreign state – even when that control is held through layered intermediaries specifically designed to obscure the relationship.
Undisclosed foreign agent networks
Map the financial relationships between foreign principals and their U.S.-based agents – the kind of undisclosed influence network that regulatory frameworks aim to surface but rarely do.
Foreign investment beneficial ownership
For CFIUS and FIRRMA purposes, trace the ultimate beneficial ownership of inbound investment – identifying foreign government control that deal documents don’t disclose.
Political exposure and PEP networks
Identify 1.4M+ Politically Exposed Persons and their financial networks – board seats, corporate ownership, family connections – across 250+ jurisdictions.
Covert influence tracing
Trace the entities behind influence operations back to their state-connected funding sources.
Academic and research institution risk
Identify foreign state-connected funding, joint ventures, and technology transfer agreements at universities and research institutions that create national security risk.
Across government, compliance, and investigation teams.
Law enforcement & intelligence
DOJ National Security Division, FBI counterintelligence, congressional investigations – tracing foreign influence networks to their state sponsors and financing sources.
M&A and investment due diligence
Identify foreign state-connected ownership in acquisition targets before CFIUS review. Avoid the post-deal discovery of a foreign government control issue that kills the transaction.
Journalism & think tanks
Investigative journalists and policy researchers mapping foreign influence operations – tracing the financial networks connecting foreign states to their domestic proxies.
250+ jurisdictions
SOE and state control detection
for national security missions
Frequently Asked Questions
FOCI risk hides in multi-layered corporate structures – foreign government entities holding indirect ownership through subsidiaries, joint ventures, and investment vehicles. Sayari traces ownership chains through multiple degrees of separation, identifying foreign government connections that standard screening stops at the first degree, making it particularly effective for NISPOM compliance and DSS mitigation requirements.
Beyond direct sanctions and watchlist matches, Sayari identifies: state-owned enterprise (SOE) connections through indirect ownership chains, Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) entity relationships, undisclosed foreign principal connections, government-linked board members and directors, and investment patterns associated with adversary capital – intelligence that standard compliance databases do not provide.
CFIUS reviews require detailed corporate genealogy – mapping every entity in an ownership chain, identifying all foreign government connections, and documenting the ultimate source of capital. Sayari provides this analysis using primary-source corporate registry data across 250+ jurisdictions, generating the ownership maps and entity profiles that legal teams need for filing preparation and risk assessment.
Yes. China’s MCF strategy deliberately blurs the line between civilian and military enterprises. Sayari identifies MCF-linked entities through ownership chains, corporate officer connections, government funding patterns, and relationships with designated entities on the DoD 1260H list and the BIS Entity List – exposing connections that are invisible to name-based screening of direct counterparties.
State-owned enterprises often operate through layers of subsidiaries, joint ventures, and investment vehicles designed to distance the government connection from the operating entity. Sayari resolves these structures using primary-source corporate registry data, mapping ownership and control through every layer to reveal the ultimate government connection – whether it is one degree or ten degrees removed.
Foreign influence regulations and screening requirements.
Screening and detection capabilities.
Map the network behind the influence.
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