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Palantir

palantir.com

Palantir builds software integrating data, decisions, and operations for mission-critical government and commercial organizations.

HQMiami, Florida, United States
Employees1000+
Funding$2.5B
ValuationPublic market cap (approx.)
309 active roles
Profile 8mo agoJobs checked 3d ago
Specialization
Data Engineering
Business
Software Applicationsand 1 more business values
  • Professional Services
Market
Governmentand 1 more market values
  • Cross Industry
Ecosystem
Applications
Customers
Governmentsand 1 more customers values
  • Enterprises
More details
Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications, Professional Services
Specialization
Data Engineering
Market
Government, Cross Industry
Customers
Governments, Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software, On Premise Software, Professional Services
Revenue models
Subscription, Services Fees
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Series E Plus
Reported funding amount
$1B+

About

Palantir builds software that integrates organizational data, decisions, and operations, including its AIP, Gotham, Foundry, Ontology, and Apollo platforms. It sells to government agencies and commercial institutions, differentiating itself through an integrated software stack that connects data with operational decision-making, AI, and automation.

Market

Palantir competes in enterprise data integration, analytics, AI, and decision-intelligence software, with a particularly strong position in government, defense, and regulated industries. It differentiates through an integrated Ontology that connects data to operational workflows, AIP's connection of generative AI to operations, and secure deployment and governance capabilities rather than offering only standalone cloud, analytics, or AI infrastructure.

Target Customers

Palantir targets large, complex organizations in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, especially government and defense, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other highly regulated industries. Its primary buyers and users are data, technology, analytics, operations, and mission leaders who need secure, governed systems that connect fragmented data to real-world workflows and decisions.

At a Glance

Problem

Organizations often have abundant but fragmented data spread across enterprise systems, sensors, documents, and operational tools, making it difficult to form a shared, real-time view of what is happening and translate analysis into action. The resulting pain is slow, inconsistent, and costly decision-making in environments where errors can affect a mission, supply chain, factory, public-health response, or financial-compliance process. Palantir’s strongest use cases are therefore high-stakes operational decisions, such as coordinating government missions, managing supply chains, responding to disasters, or detecting financial crime. In one cited banking example, Palantir says its transaction-monitoring software resolved alerts 60% faster at 90% lower cost.

Product / Service

Palantir provides enterprise software platforms that integrate an organization’s data, decisions, and operations. Foundry uses an Ontology to represent the enterprise’s objects, relationships, logic, actions, and security, turning fragmented sources into a coherent operating picture and enabling workflows to write back into operational systems. AIP connects generative AI and other models to that governed data and operational context, allowing developers and frontline users to build AI-powered workflows, agents, and applications with auditability and access controls. Apollo supports deployment and management of the resulting software, while Palantir’s customer-embedded approach helps encode domain-specific operational knowledge into reusable products.

Market

Palantir competes in the overlapping markets for enterprise data integration, analytics, operational software, and applied artificial intelligence. Its competitive set includes large technology and enterprise-software providers such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, Salesforce, and Informatica, as well as Alteryx, Qlik, SAS, government contractors, systems integrators, and newer data and AI companies. The company differentiates itself by connecting analysis directly to operational decisions and workflows rather than offering analytics as a standalone reporting layer.

Palantir is an established, revenue-generating company rather than a pre-revenue startup. For fiscal 2025, it reported $4.475 billion in revenue, up 56% year over year, from 954 customers; 54% of revenue came from government customers and 46% from commercial customers. Its Q4 2025 revenue was $1.407 billion, up 70% year over year, and it closed 180 deals worth at least $1 million, indicating substantial traction while also showing that government remains a major part of the business and commercial adoption is expanding rapidly.

Founders & Leadership

Alexander KarpFounder
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Director
Stephen CohenFounder
Co-Founder, President, Secretary, and Director
Peter ThielFounder
Co-Founder; no current Palantir operating title identified
Joe LonsdaleFounder
Co-Founder; no current Palantir operating title identified
Nathan GettingsFounder
Co-Founder; no current Palantir operating title identified
Shyam SankarChief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President
David GlazerChief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Ryan TaylorChief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer
Jeffrey BuckleyChief Accounting Officer

Funding History

2005-01
Seed$2M
2006-01
Series A$2.35M
2006-12
Series B$10.5M
2007-09
Series CUndisclosed

Pensco

2008-03
Series C$36.8M
2009-03
Series C$8.29M
2009-11
Series D$90.1M

Founders Fund

2011-04
Series E$50M

Founders Fund

2011-09
Series F$68M
2012-05
Series F$56.1M
2013-06
Series G$444M
2013-09
Series G$197M
2014-11
Series G$50M
2015-07
Series H$880M

Morgan Stanley, San Francisco Sentry, In-Q-Tel, Founders Fund, Artis Ventures

2016-11
Series H$20M
2020-04
Series I$550M

Sompo Holdings

2020-11
Post IPOUndisclosed
2021-10
Grant (prize money)$150M
2023-08
Post IPO$10.1M

Recent News

2026-10-01partnership
Palantir and Armada partner on sovereign AI infrastructure

Palantir and Armada announced a partnership to deliver sovereign AI on infrastructure manufactured in the United States and allied nations. Palantir named Armada its inaugural Certified Modular Data Center Partner; the offering combines Armada’s infrastructure and platform with Palantir’s Sovereign AI Operating System.

2026-09-23customer_win
Palantir-powered OperatorOS signs second commercial contract with SkyDance Air

Surf Air Mobility signed a commercial OperatorOS agreement with SkyDance Air, its second commercial contract for the Palantir-powered flight-operations software. Surf Air Mobility said it would earn a percentage of revenue from SkyDance flights managed through OperatorOS.

2026-09-21product_launch
Palantir adds Insight analysis and modern object search to Carbon

Palantir added Insight analysis and a redesigned object-search experience to Carbon. Workspace owners can enable the experiences independently; Insight analysis replaces Object Explorer-style explorations when enabled.

2026-09-18exec_change
Palantir appoints Tom Watson as a UK senior vice president

Palantir appointed former UK Labour deputy leader Tom Watson as a senior vice president on September 18. Watson had served as a part-time adviser to the company since 2024 and was to work alongside its UK and Europe chief, Louis Mosley.

2026-09-17customer_win
Palantir-powered OperatorOS signs first commercial contract with Sprintbach Aviation

Surf Air Mobility signed its first commercial OperatorOS agreement with Sprintbach Aviation. The SurfOS flight-operations software is powered by Palantir, and the agreement was described as OperatorOS’s official commercial launch.

2026-09-15product_launch
Palantir makes Iceberg tables generally available in Foundry

Palantir announced general availability of managed Iceberg tables and its Iceberg REST catalog in Foundry enterprise environments hosted on AWS, Azure, and GCP. The release supports Iceberg tables in Palantir-managed storage or customer-provided buckets.

2026-09-10product_launch
Palantir makes LLM workflow evaluation suites generally available

Palantir announced that LLM evaluation suites in Pipeline Builder are generally available. The capability lets users test the outputs of Use LLM nodes before deploying workflow changes and records detailed evaluation results in Foundry datasets.

2026-09-08product_launch
Palantir introduces Vulcan CAD review application

Palantir introduced Vulcan, a CAD review application that renders engineering geometry directly from Ontology data. Vulcan supports common 3D model and engineering drawing formats and became available in beta across all enrollments starting the week of September 7.

2026-09-08product_launch
Palantir launches AIP Evolve for autonomous AI-system improvement

Palantir announced the general availability of AIP Evolve, which coordinates AI FDE agents to improve AI systems in Foundry. The product supports goals such as model migration, cost and latency reduction, evaluation improvement, and custom optimization workflows.

2026-09-03product_launch
Palantir makes VS Code workspaces the default Foundry editor

Palantir announced that VS Code workspaces will become the default code-editing environment for supported Foundry repository types beginning the week of September 14, 2026. The workspaces provide automatic environment setup, integrated terminal access, AI-assisted development, and data-preview capabilities while running on Palantir infrastructure.

2026-09-03product_launch
Palantir launches visual rebasing for Workshop changes

Palantir announced visual rebasing in Workshop, allowing builders to reconcile changes between the main branch and their own branch directly in the module editor. The feature provides side-by-side comparisons and lets users accept, reject, or combine changes while identifying additions, modifications, deletions, shifts, and conflicts.

2026-09-03partnership
Palantir and PwC expand strategic alliance for enterprise AI

PwC US and Palantir announced an expanded strategic alliance focused initially on scaling enterprise AI, transforming mergers and acquisitions, and modernizing ERP systems. The collaboration combines Palantir’s AI and data platforms with PwC’s industry, engineering, and business-transformation capabilities, and includes an AI-native deals platform enabled by Foundry and AIP.

2026-09-02exec_change
Peter Zaffino to join Palantir as Global Head of Financial Services

Palantir announced that Peter Zaffino will join the company as Global Head of Financial Services, effective January 15, 2027. He will lead growth across insurance, banking, asset management, private equity, and other financial-services businesses after serving as AIG’s CEO and executive chairman.

2026-09-01customer_win
Palantir to deliver eight TITAN systems to the U.S. Army

Palantir announced that the Army Contracting Command awarded its wholly owned subsidiary, Palantir USG, a prime agreement to produce and deliver eight TITAN ground-station systems. The order comprises four Advanced and four Basic systems and includes integration of critical technologies and fielding to the operational Army.

2026-08-17customer_win
Pentagon directs up to $243.9M for Palantir services

The Pentagon directed up to $243.9 million for Palantir services through March 31, 2027, with additional funding options to be identified for the period through December 2028. The specific Palantir products and services covered by the funding were not disclosed.

2026-08-13product_launch
Palantir adds CoProcess functions to Pipeline Builder

Palantir announced support for CoProcess user-defined functions in Pipeline Builder. The capability enables stateful custom logic across two input streams and allows output to be emitted independently from either stream.

2026-08-11product_launch
Palantir launches object timeline observability feature

Palantir announced a new object timeline feature for observing actions performed on objects, including agent or manual attribution, token usage, runtime, and agentic coverage. The feature is accessible from Autopilot and Object Explorer when edit history is enabled.

2026-06-04partnership
McCarthy and Palantir Announce Strategic Partnership to Bring AI to the Construction Field and Beyond

McCarthy and Palantir announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar partnership to expand AI and data-driven decision-making across McCarthy’s operations. A key initiative is McCarthy’s AI Operations Suite, Pulse, which supports real-time insight, scenario planning, risk analysis, and decision orchestration.

2026-02-23other
Billion-dollar Palantir contract gives DHS unprecedented access to AI tools

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security entered a five-year agreement with Palantir valued at up to $1 billion. The arrangement gives DHS components streamlined access to Gotham and Foundry for case management, threat identification, logistics, emergency response, and operational data integration.

Active Roles

309
hybrid - New York, NY/Operations/4d ago
hybrid - Washington, D.C./Operations/4d ago
onsite - Laurel, MD/Forward-Deployed Engineer/5d ago
onsite - Laurel, MD/Implementation Engineer/5d ago
onsite - Norfolk, VA/Forward-Deployed Engineer/6d ago
onsite - Norfolk, VA/Implementation Engineer/6d ago
onsite - Palo Alto, CA/Operations/7d ago
hybrid - New York, NY/Data & Analytics/11d ago
hybrid - Palo Alto, CA/Finance/13d ago
hybrid - Denver, CO/Finance/13d ago
hybrid - Denver, CO/Operations/17d ago
onsite - Washington, D.C./Operations/17d ago
hybrid - New York, NY/Engineering/23d ago
hybrid - London, United Kingdom/Engineering/23d ago
hybrid - New York, NY/Legal/23d ago
hybrid - Denver, CO/Operations/23d ago
hybrid - Washington, D.C./Operations/23d ago
hybrid - Palo Alto, CA/Operations/23d ago
onsite - Kitsap, WA/Forward-Deployed Engineer/24d ago

Business Model

Palantir makes money primarily by selling subscriptions to its hosted Palantir Cloud and to software deployed in customers’ environments, with ongoing operations and maintenance services. It also earns revenue from professional services, serving both government and commercial customers; in 2025, government represented 54% of revenue and commercial customers 46%.

Products

Palantir AIPPalantir GothamPalantir FoundryPalantir OntologyPalantir Apollo

Customers

Morgan StanleyMerck KGaAAirbusWejoLiliumPG&EFiat ChryslerbpWalgreensMinistry of Defence UKLockheed MartinHCA Healthcare

Tech Stack

Large language models (LLMs)Text embedding modelsOntology-based semantic data modelingGenerative AI and agentic workflowsAI/ML modelsData integration, governance, and access controls

Competitors

Microsoft
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud
Databricks
Snowflake
IBM
SAS
DataWalk

Key Investors

ARK Investment Management