¶ Palantir Technologies
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Palantir Technologies is an American software company based in Denver, Colorado.
¶ History
Palantir was founded in May 2003 by Peter Thiel.[1]
In March 2018, Palantir was awarded a contract from the United States Department of Defense to provide software to the United States Army in partnership with Raytheon.[2] Later that month, whistleblower Christopher Wylie testified that Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica to analyze data harvested from Facebook profiles.[3]
Palantir acquired Synapse Technology in 2020.[4]
¶ COVID-19
Following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, Palantir worked with British health officials and Google to "track the progress of the Covid-19 outbreak."[5]
Palantir worked with United States government health officials to track the production and distribution of future COVID-19 vaccine candidates using a software system called Tiberius. The project granted Palantir access to sensitive health information in the name of identifying "high-priority populations at highest risk of infection."[5:1] Tiberius uses the same software that manages HHS Protect for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, which gathers COVID-19-related information from "more than 225 data sets, including demographic statistics, community-based tests, and a wide range of state-provided data."[6]
In July 2020, Elizabeth Warren and several Democrat and Republican colleagues warned that Palantir’s massive stores of data “could be used by other federal agencies in unexpected, unregulated, and potentially harmful ways, such as in the law and immigration enforcement context.”[7][8]
On October 4, 2021, Palantir announced that the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) had awarded the company a contract to continue its existing data services for the National COVID Cohort Collaborative. NCATS also awarded a second contract to continue providing software for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the United States President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), at a total value of $60 million.[9]
¶ Organization
Palantir is a member organization of:
- Business Council[10]
- Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)[11]
- COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition[12]
- Edison Electric Institute[13]
- U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council[14]
Palantir is also a partner of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative,[9:1] the NobleReach Foundation[15] and the World Economic Forum (WEF).[16] The company is an investor in Roivant Sciences.[17]
¶ Investors
Investors in Palantir include:[18]
- 10X Capital
- 50 South Capital
- Abacon Capital
- ARK Investment Management
- Asas Capital
- Binux Capital
- Bossa Invest
- Bracket Capital
- Christian V. Jordan
- Craft Ventures[19]
- Decacom Capital
- eBrands Partners
- Ethos VC
- Founders Fund[20]
- Fujitsu
- Global Space Ventures[21]
- In-Q-Tel[22]
- Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)
- Nelstone Ventures
- Oakhouse Partners
- Oceanic Partners
- Octave Ventures
- Rafael Pinedo
- Sensegain Asset Management
- SharesPost Investment Management
- SOMPO Holdings
- Storm Global
- True Capital Management
- Vika Ventures
¶ Personnel
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen Cohen | Co-founder[23] | - |
| Lauren Friedman Stat | Board member[23:1] | Accenture, The Lorelton, Tree3, Valkyrie AI, Notley, Friendly Force, Figa Jewelry |
| Lisa Gordon | Head of Global Communications[24] | Squier Knapp Ochs Communications, ProServ, District of Columbia Courts, Model N, RAPT Therapeutics |
| Avril Haines | Consultant (former)[25][26] | Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
| Jacob Helberg | Advisor[27] | Hill and Valley Forum |
| Akash Jain | USG President[9:2] | - |
| Alex Karp | Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer[5:2] | - |
| Graeme Lamb | Advisor[28] | United Kingdom Special Forces, Field Army, Walking With The Wounded, Special Air Service (SAS), Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, C5 Capital, AEGIS Security & Investigations |
| Alexander Moore | Board member[23:2] | NodePrime, 8VC |
| Alexandra Schiff | Board member[23:3] | Wall Street Journal, Condé Nast Portfolio, New York Times, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg Businessweek |
| Peter Thiel | Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors[29] | AbCellera, Thiel Capital, Founders Fund, PayPal, Meta Platforms |
| Eric Woersching | Board member[23:4] | EasyPost, Initialized Capital |
¶ Clients
Palantir's clients include:[30]
- AARP
- Airbus
- Axel Springer
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)[1:1]
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[1:2]
- Cleveland Clinic
- Concordance Healthcare Solutions
- Dewpoint Therapeutics[31]
- Doosan Infracore[30:1]
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)[1:3]
- Ferrari
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)[1:4]
- Fujitsu
- General Mills
- Google[5:3]
- Grupo Global
- Jacobs
- JPMorgan Chase[1:5]
- Kinder Morgan
- Merck[31:1]
- Ministry of Defence[32]
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)[9:3]
- National Health Service (NHS)
- National Security Agency (NSA)[33]
- New York City Police Department (NYPD)[1:6]
- NHS England[32:1]
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)[30:2]
- Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board[1:7]
- Ringier
- SAC Capital Advisors[1:8]
- Sompo Care[30:3]
- Sonnedix
- Swiss Re[30:4]
- Tampa General Hospital
- United States Army[2:1]
- United States Chamber of Commerce[1:9]
- United States Department of Defense[1:10]
- United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)[33:1]
- United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)[6:1]
- United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)[1:11]
- World Food Programme (WFP)
¶ Activities
Palantir has provided funding to the Bipartisan Policy Center[34] and New America.[35]
¶ External links
¶ Further reading
- October 23, 2022: "How Palantir Conquered the World" by James Corbett, published by The Corbett Report
- July 18, 2024: "The Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick: It’s Worse Than You Think" by Whitney Webb, published by Unlimited Hangout
- August 1, 2024: "Who’s Behind J. D. Vance? Is He a CIA Candidate?" by Liam Sturgess, published by The Kennedy Beacon
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Chapman, L. (2018, March 9). Peter Thiel’s Palantir Wins $876 Million U.S. Army Contract. Bloomberg. http://archive.today/2018.03.10-171203/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/peter-thiel-s-palantir-wins-876-million-u-s-army-contract ↩︎ ↩︎
Kharpal, A. (2018, March 27). Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired, whistleblower alleges. CNBC. http://archive.today/2020.07.19-140047/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/palantir-worked-with-cambridge-analytica-on-the-facebook-data-whistleblower.html ↩︎
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