Palantir

Palantir Technologies, Inc. is an American software company that focuses on data integration, analytics, and decision support. It was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Nathan Gettings, Stephen Cohen, and Joe Lonsdale. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, and operates globally. Palantir began trading publicly in 2020 through a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker PLTR.

Palantir maintains two principal platforms. Gotham is designed for government and defense clients, enabling investigative analytics, operations planning, and data fusion across disparate sources. Foundry targets commercial and non-governmental organizations, providing data integration, modeling, and collaborative analytics for enterprise users. Both platforms emphasize governance, access control, auditability, and the ability to deploy across on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.

Customers include public sector agencies—such as defense, intelligence, and law enforcement—and a range of industries in finance, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing. Palantir markets its software through multi-year contracts with large organizations and government programs, with deployments in multiple regions and clouds. The company has faced scrutiny regarding privacy and civil liberties due to its work with government customers. Palantir describes its approach as privacy-conscious, citing data lineage, role-based access controls, and compliance with export controls and other regulations.