Palantir
A publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics software.
Overview
- Company type
- Enterprise applications & delivery
- Primary markets
- United States / United States
- Business direction
- Developer tools / Knowledge & data
- Delivery model
- Product
Business and delivery attributes are research interpretations, not capability ratings.
Business direction · Basis
Apollo acts as a platform software to facilitate continuous integration and continuous delivery across all environments. Palantir develops data integration and analytics software products. It provides software products such as Palantir Metropolis, Palantir Foundry, and Tiberius, connecting isolated databases across departments and assisting with multi-source data exploration and quantitative analysis. As a software and services company specializing in data analysis, it externally provides standardized software products such as Palantir Gotham and data analysis algorithm capabilities. It utilizes AI algorithms to combine massive amounts of data collected by governments and corporations into a single, gigantic dataset and analyzes and uncovers potential patterns.
Delivery model · Basis
Apollo acts as a platform to facilitate continuous integration and continuous delivery across all environments. Palantir develops data integration and analytics software products. It offers software products such as Palantir Metropolis, Palantir Foundry, and Tiberius, connecting isolated cross-departmental databases and assisting with multi-source data exploration and quantitative analysis. As a software and services company specializing in data analysis, it provides standardized software products such as Palantir Gotham and data analysis algorithmic capabilities externally.
Industries · Software / Data analytics software industry
Target customers · United States Department of Defense / Airbus / Morgan Stanley / United States Department of Homeland Security
Products & delivery
AIP
One of the company's four main operating systems.
Palantir Apollo
A platform to facilitate continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) across all environments.
Palantir Gotham
An intelligence tool used by militaries and counter-terrorism analysts, and used by multiple police departments for crime analysis.
Palantir Metropolis
A quantitative analysis tool sold as QA Studio
Tiberius
A software for vaccine allocation used in the United States
Palantir Gotham
Defense and intelligence software released in 2008, used by intelligence and defense agencies, supporting alerts, geospatial analysis, and prediction.
Cases
Supporting NHS COVID-19 efforts through Palantir Foundry
Supporting COVID-19 response efforts
- Delivery responsibility
- Providing Palantir Foundry software
Supporting anti-fraud efforts in the RATB economic stimulus
- Delivery responsibility
- Providing system capabilities to support RATB fraud detection
- Reported outcomes
- Successfully combating fraud in the economic stimulus and identifying specific cases
United States Department of Homeland Security
- Delivery responsibility
- Providing Investigative Case Management (ICM) software support to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
- Reported outcomes
- Renewing a five-year contract valued at $95.9 million
Business signals
Transfer of stock listing to the Nasdaq Global Select Market
Palantir announced the transfer of its stock listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq Global Select Market, effective November 26, continuing to trade under the symbol PLTR.
Addition to the S&P 500 index
S&P Global announced that Palantir would be added to the S&P 500 index, and its share price rose 14% the next trading day.
Direct public offering on the New York Stock Exchange
Palantir went public on the New York Stock Exchange through a direct public offering under the ticker symbol "PLTR".
Completed Series B Financing
REV led Palantir's $10.5 million Series B round.
Completed Series A Financing
Oakhouse Partners led Palantir's $7.5 million Series A round.
Palantir Founded
Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel, Stephen Cohen, Joe Lonsdale, Alex Karp, and Nathan Gettings.
Sources
Company claims, documented statements and interpretations are attributed separately. Collection is not independent verification.
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tool used by militaries and counter-terrorism analysts, including the United States Intelligence Community and United States Department of Defense . Multiple police departments have used Gotham for crime analysis. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Apollo is a platform to facilitate continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) across all environments. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Its software as a service (SaaS) is one of fiv
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rector Peter Orszag held a press conference at the White House announcing the success of fighting fraud in the stimulus by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB). Biden credited Palantir with supporting the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board's fraud detection efforts, highlighting specific cases identified through the system. [ 53 ] He announced that the capability w
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Palantir Technologies - Wikidata Jump to content Search Search Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Palantir Technologies (Q2047336) From Wikidata American software and services company, specializing in data analysis Palantir PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. edit Language Label Description Also known as default for all languages Palantir Technologies – Palantir T
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r symbol "PLTR". [ 92 ] On September 6, 2024, S&P Global announced that Palantir would be added to the S&P 500 index . Its share price rose 14% the next trading day. [ 93 ] On November 14, Palantir announced transfer of its stock listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq Global Select Market effective November 26. The company's Class A Common Stock continued to trade under the symbol
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ive Case Management (ICM) software. The contract is worth $95.9M over a five-year period. (English) headquarters location Palo Alto end time 2020 2 references reference URL https://fortune.com/unicorns/2016/palantir/ stated in Fortune.com unicorn list retrieved 17 July 2020 publication date 2016 reference URL https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/palantir-headquarters-miami-denver.html title Palantir mo
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Thiel and Karp but little interest from venture capital firms, so Thiel and his venture fund largely bankrolled the initial $30 million cost. CIA -affiliated venture capital firm In-Q-Tel [ 42 ] invested about $2 million. [ 17 ] According to Techcrunch , Oakhouse Partners led Palantir's $7.5 million Series A (June 2006) and REV led its $10.5 million Series B (November 2006). [ 43 ] In its early ye
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ts . [ 99 ] Products Palantir Gotham Released in 2008, Palantir Gotham is Palantir's defense and intelligence software. It is an evolution of Palantir's longstanding work in the United States Intelligence Community , and is used by intelligence and defense agencies. Among other things, the software supports alerts, geospatial analysis, and prediction. Foreign customers include the Ukrainian milita
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the company at $6 billion. [ 89 ] On October 18, 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Palantir considered an IPO in the first half of 2019 following a $41 billion valuation. [ 90 ] Before its IPO, Palantir had not made a profit. In July 2020, it filed for an IPO, [ 91 ] and on September 30, 2020, it went public on the New York Stock Exchange through a direct public offering under the ticke
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rd member Peter Thiel start time 2003 0 references Alexander C. Karp start time 2003 0 references Stephen Cohen start time 2005 0 references country United States 1 reference reference URL https://afsc.org/palantir-explainer title What is Palantir? And why is this corporation so dangerous? (American English) quotation Palantir vacuums up massive amounts of data collected by governments and corpora
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ad, it proposed using human analysts to explore data from many sources, called intelligence augmentation . [ 51 ] 2010–2012: Expansion In April 2010, Palantir announced a partnership with Thomson Reuters to sell the Palantir Metropolis product as "QA Studio" (a quantitative analysis tool). [ 52 ] On June 18, 2010, Vice President of the United States Joe Biden and Office of Management and Budget Di
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lorida, and was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel , [ 5 ] Stephen Cohen , [ 6 ] Joe Lonsdale , [ 7 ] Alex Karp , [ 8 ] and Nathan Gettings . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Palantir's customer base includes federal agencies, state and local governments, international organizations, and also private companies. [ 11 ] The company has four main operating systems: Gotham, Foundry, Apollo, and AIP. Gotham is an intelligence
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025) Net income US$1.63 billion (2025) Total assets US$8.90 billion (2025) Total equity US$7.39 billion (2025) Number of employees 4,429 (2025) Website palantir.com Footnotes [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Palantir Technologies Inc. ( / ˈ p æ l ə n ˌ t ɪər / PAL -ən- TEER ) [ 3 ] is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics software. [ 4 ] Palantir is headquartered in Miami , F
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-investigations-renews-partnership-with-palantir/ title Palantir News | Homeland Security Investigations Renews Partnership with Palantir (English) language of work or name English retrieved 27 January 2026 quotation Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) announced today that the Department of Homeland Security renewed its contract to support Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with Investigat
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ould be deployed at other government agencies, starting with Medicare and Medicaid . [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] [ 57 ] Industry analysts estimated Palantir's 2011 revenues at approximately $250 million. [ 58 ] 2013–2017: Additional funding "[As of 2013] the U.S. spy agencies also employed Palantir to connect databases across departments. Before this, most of the databases used by the CIA and FBI were si
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ed Palantir's technology to track contagion. [ 73 ] Palantir also developed Tiberius, a software for vaccine allocation used in the United States. [ 74 ] In August 2020, Palantir Technologies moved its headquarters to Denver, Colorado , distancing itself from the "engineering elite of Silicon Valley ... they do not know more about how society should be organized or what justice requires". [ 75 ] I
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component Industry Software , AI Founded May 6, 2003 (23 years ago) ( May 6, 2003 ) Founders Peter Thiel Stephen Cohen Alex Karp Joe Lonsdale Nathan Gettings Headquarters Miami , Florida, U.S. Key people Peter Thiel ( chairman ) Alex Karp ( CEO ) Stephen Cohen ( president ) Products Palantir Gotham Palantir Foundry Palantir Apollo Revenue US$ 4.48 billion (2025) Operating income US$1.41 billion (2
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g to Karp, Palantir had a firm hold at the FBI because "They'll have no choice". [ 28 ] 2018–present Palantir's former headquarters at Palo Alto, which remains an office [ 70 ] Palantir was one of four large technology firms [ 71 ] to start working with the NHS on supporting COVID-19 efforts through the provision of software from Palantir Foundry, [ 72 ] and by April 2020, several countries had us
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data collected by governments and corporations. Palantir’s AI algorithm then combines all this data into a single, gigantic dataset and looks for patterns that are hard to see. (American English) publication date 11 February 2026 publisher American Friends Service Committee enterprise 1 reference reference URL https://afsc.org/palantir-explainer title What is Palantir? And why is this corporation
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e-Data-Across-Hybrid-Cloud-Environments title IBM and Palantir Partner to Help Businesses Easily Deploy Powerful and Open AI Applications; Unlock Valuable Data Across Hybrid Cloud Environments (English) language of work or name English retrieved 27 January 2026 United States Department of Homeland Security 1 reference reference URL https://www.palantir.com/newsroom/press-releases/homeland-security
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tions. Palantir’s AI algorithm then combines all this data into a single, gigantic dataset and looks for patterns that are hard to see. (American English) publication date 11 February 2026 publisher American Friends Service Committee member of Gaia-X 0 references bitkom 1 reference Lobbying Register of the German Bundestag ID R003212 stated in Bundestag Lobby Register retrieved 19 October 2025 Ame
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access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028133232/https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/palantir-headquarters-moves-from-silicon-valley-to-colorado.html |archive-date=October 28, 2020}}</ref>"}},"i":0}}]}'> Palantir Technologies Inc. Former headquarters in Palo Alto, California Type Public Traded as Nasdaq : PLTR (Class A) Nasdaq-100 component S&P 100 component S&P 500
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date 2 July 2025 language of work or name German retrieved 6 March 2026 list of companies involved in the Gaza war 0 references S&P 100 1 reference reference URL https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239723/ishares-sp-100-etf Nasdaq-100 point in time 1 February 2026 0 references industry data analytics software industry 1 reference reference URL https://fortune.com/unicorns/2016/palantir/ stated in
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e offerings the U.S. Department of Defense authorized for Mission Critical National Security Systems (IL5). [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Palantir has been used for data integration and analysis by corporate clients such as Morgan Stanley , Merck KGaA , Airbus , Wejo , Lilium , PG&E and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles . [ 19 ] Palantir has been criticized for its involvement in expanding government surveillance
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w.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165525000022/pltr-20241231.htm publication date 18 February 2025 stated in Form 10-K operating income −623,440,000 United States dollar point in time 2018 1 reference reference URL https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000119312521060650/d65934d10k.htm publication date 26 February 2021 stated in Form 10-K −576,444,000 United States dollar
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tir Technologies language of work or name English retrieved 6 March 2026 Alexander C. Karp object of statement has role co-founder 1 reference reference URL https://investors.palantir.com/governance/board-of-directors title Board of Directors (English) editor Palantir Technologies language of work or name English retrieved 6 March 2026 Nathan Gettings object of statement has role co-founder 1 refe
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of work or name German retrieved 6 March 2026 logo image Palantir Technologies logo.svg 83 × 20; 3 KB 0 references official name Palantir Technologies Inc. (English) 0 references notable work ImmigrationOS 3 references reference URL https://www.wired.com/story/ice-palantir-immigrationos/ title ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform (English) language of
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ware-datenschutz-100.html title Datenschützer warnen vor Polizei-Software aus den USA (German) editor Deutschlandfunk publication date 5 June 2025 language of work or name German retrieved 6 March 2026 reference URL https://investors.palantir.com/governance/board-of-directors title Board of Directors (English) editor Palantir Technologies language of work or name English retrieved 6 March 2026 boa
