Civilian Contractors & Companies

Palantir Technologies

2003

Palantir Technologies - the Peter Thiel/Alex Karp data-analytics firm (founded 2003, named for the seeing-stones of Lord of the Rings) that became the U.S. intelligence community's data-integration backbone. Seeded by the CIA's venture arm In-Q-Tel - its first outside investor - and now embedded across the CIA, NSA, DoD, ICE, FBI and special operations. The modern archetype of the Silicon-Valley-to-black-budget pipeline; a disclosed WestExec Advisors client.

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Connections (6)

confirmedJoe Lonsdale

co-founded it (2003)

Source: Wikipedia: Joe Lonsdale

confirmedTrae Stephens

an early Palantir executive

Source: Wikipedia: Trae Stephens

confirmedAlex Karp

co-founder and CEO

Source: Wikipedia: Alex Karp

confirmedWestExec Advisors

disclosed advisory client (2020 transition filings)

Source: WestExec Advisors (Wikipedia); Biden 2020 transition financial disclosures

confirmedIn-Q-Tel

the CIA venture arm that was Palantir's first outside investor (~2005)

Source: Forbes, How a Deviant Philosopher Built Palantir, a CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut (2013)

confirmedPeter Thiel

co-founded and chairs it (2003)

Source: Wikipedia: Peter Thiel

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