Palantir

Palantir Technologies, founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, builds data-integration and analysis platforms for intelligence agencies, militaries, police forces, and corporations. The CIA’s venture arm In-Q-Tel was an early investor, and the agency was for years its primary customer. Documented contracts include ICE deportation-support systems, predictive policing pilots in New Orleans conducted without city council knowledge, the US Army’s Vantage program, and the UK NHS federated data platform. Its Gotham and Foundry platforms fuse disparate records into searchable profiles of individuals. Files tagged Palantir document the contracts, the procurement records, and the company’s position as the connective tissue between state surveillance power and private data engineering.