Palantir

PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES
Official Website: http://www.palantir.com
Official about page: http://www.palantir.com/about
Country: USA
Location: 100 Hamilton Ave.Suite 300,Palo Alto, California 94301 USA
Founded: 2004
Business: Interception, Monitoring, Surveillance, Information Analysis Architecture
Contact
Phone: +1 650-815-0200
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Background

Blog: http://blog.palantir.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/palantirtech

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Palantir

Palantir is currently being used in the following arenas: Intelligence, Defense, Financial Regulation and Oversight, Cyber Security and Healthcare.

The Analysis Blog shows different use cases. Palantir solutions are often used by military and intelligence in different countries, including middle-east.

"Palantir was founded in 2004 and has raised capital from investors such as Founders Fund, Youuniversity Ventures, Glynn Capital and Jeremy Stoppelman, the chief executive of Yelp. Peter Thiel, the hedge fund manager and former co-founder of PayPal, is also a founder and investor in Palantir..." [1]

" Palantir, a CIA-funded startup, might be the key to answering that question, at least according to the Internet sleuthers of the day. Mostly because, yes, the company, which Bloomberg Businessweek's Ashlee Vance and Brad Stone described as "the darling of the intelligence and law enforcement communities" in 2011, also happens to have a program called PRISM, as both Talking Points Memo and Business Insider pointed out.

Not only do the NSA's PRISM program and Palantir's Prism program share a name, but Palantir seemingly markets pretty much the exact service the NSA would need to gain direct access to databases without a backdoor from tech companies. The startup's own Prism overview describes the product as "a software component that lets you quickly integrate external databases into Palantir," which sounds a lot like what the Post said the NSA needed to make PRISM work: "From inside a company's data stream the NSA is capable of pulling out anything it likes." One of the first "examples" Palantir gives of how to use its Prism system has to do with "Connecting to Databases." Even if Prism has nothing to do with PRISM, Palantir might be able to help, despite the denial.

Christopher Soghoian, a graduate fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, imagined Palantir had such capabilities back in 2011.

"Using Palantir technology, the FBI can now instantly compile thorough dossiers on U.S. citizens, tying together surveillance video outside a drugstore with credit-card transactions, cell-phone call records, e-mails, airplane travel records, and Web search information," he told Businessweek.

The government also has a policy that "prevents federal agencies from building their own software when they have access to commercial alternatives," according to a Wired article. So the government would almost have to outsource that kind of work to a company like Palantir. ..."[NationalJournal

"Patrick Ryan: The founding members of our company started with Berico Technologies as an independent business unit. They formed a partnership with Palantir Technologies after recognizing the potential of their platform." TechCocktail see [ PRAESCIENT]

"The huge controversy over Snowden’s employment by one of these private contractors, Booz Allen Hamilton, was just the barest tip of the iceberg, according to intelligence and industry officials. One by one, Hayden says, the NSA contracted with companies to “make them part of our team,” as he puts it. Among these contributing companies reportedly is Palantir Technologies, the Palo Alto, Calif.,company that The New York Times and other news outlets have identified as a close associate of the NSA. Another is Eagle Alliance, a joint venture of Computer Sciences and Northrop Grumman that runs the NSA’s IT program and describes itself on its website as “the Intelligence Community’s premier Information Technology Managed Services provider.” Because of these close relationships, no door revolves more quickly in Washington than the one between these companies and the intelligence community. Booz Allen’s current vice chairman, Mike McConnell, was director of national intelligence in the George W. Bush administration and, before that, director of the NSA.

The current director of national intelligence, James Clapper, is also a former Booz Allen executive... Afterward,Hayden says, “we began to do this in increments,” still using the private sector. “It’s the companies responding to your requests.... You look for a Palantir, and you make them part of our team. It was always the same objective; our phrase was ‘V cubed’: volume, variety, velocity.”" NationalJournal

Palantir Robotex is?

For a better overall history of Palantir, see 2009 story in The Wall Street Journal

Products

Palantir Government :

Information Analysis Platform for Government Lawful Interception, Monitoring, Surveillance, Information Analysis Architecture

Palantir Finance:

Palantir Intelligence:

"Palantir's Prism platform is completely unrelated to any US government program of the same name," the company wrote in a statement provided to The Atlantic Wire. "Prism is Palantir's name for a data integration technology used in the Palantir Metropolis platform (formerly branded as Palantir Finance). This software has been licensed to banks and hedge funds for quantitative analysis and research." It's true that Palantir Metropolis used to go by the name Palantir Finance, according to this Quora thread. And the link describing Palantir's Prism platform falls under the "Metropolis Dev" section. But the coincidence, as well as the company's strong ties to the CIA, have been hard to ignore.... " The Atlantic Wire

See Palantir's Prism Overview

Prism

Metropolis

Gotham

see also [ Praescient Analytics]

Countries using products

Everywhere

Reports

7.27.2013: "How America's Top Tech Companies Created the Surveillance State. They’ve been helping the government spy on people for a very long time. The cozy relationships go back decades." By Micheal Hirsh NationalJournal

6.8.2013 : Want To Know Everything About Everyone? Work the Prism For Palantir! FRONT By Ken Layne

6.7.2013 "CIA-Funded Startup Palantir Denies Link to NSA — but They Both Make a 'Prism'" By Rebecca Greenfield The Atlantic Wire

6.6.2013: "Who’s helping the NSA? A Look at Palantir" By Tim Shorrock Money doesn't talk, it swears

5.10.2013:Praescient Analytics: Decoding Data for National Security and Defense TechCocktail By Will Schmidt

2.16.2013: Palantir Acqires Team Behind YC Voice Email Startup Voicegem, By Josh Constine, TechCrunch

1.16.2013: A Palantir Founder Suggests His Startup Is Worth About $8 Billion WSJ Blog

10.20.2012: Army Investigating Acquisition of Controversial Intel Software Defense News

4.20.12: Cyber misinformation campaign against USA today Barrett Brown, The Guardian UK

9.4.2009: "How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade" By SIOBHAN GORMAN The Wall Street Journal

12.3.2007: "Killer robots could replace soldiers Robotex, a Silicon Valley start-up, combines engineering skill and groundbreaking weaponry to create a new generation of soldiers." By Jeffrey M O'Brien Fortune

Palantir founder funds 76% of Ron Paul's PAC

SEC Filings Market Brief

Tech Crunch CrunchBase

Wikipedia

Facebook

Eschelon2 Ptoject PM

Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon Bloomberg

Palantir Apologizes For WikiLeaks Attack Proposal, Cuts Ties With HBGary Forbes

Privacy and Civil Liberties are in Palantir’s DNA Palantir

Hard Technical Problems in Civil Liberties Protection Palantir

A Tech Fix For Illegal Government Snooping? NPR

Tech & Business Partners

Praescient

VoiceGem

CNAS

People Responsible

Nathan Gettings - Chief Technology Officer, Founder

RoboteX "Nathan Gettings, a former PayPal software engineer and founder of Palantir Technologies, who brought in his brother Adam as well as a fourth (silent) partner who hails from both PayPal and YouTube. They had a prototype in no time. But they needed a weapon, and that's how Jerry Baber, his revolutionary shotgun, and a pilotless mini-helicopter come into the picture... " Fortune

Gleb Chuvpilo - Advisor

Cool Chip Technologies Advisor, Authy Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer [9]

Kris Duggan - Advisor

BadgeVille CEO [10]

Investors

CIA's venture fund "In-Q-Tel" AKA "IQT"

"Palantir was founded in 2004 and has raised capital from investors such as Founders Fund, Youuniversity Ventures, Glynn Capital and Jeremy Stoppelman, the chief executive of Yelp. Peter Thiel, the hedge fund manager and former co-founder of PayPal, is also a founder and investor in Palantir..." [14]

Major Shareholders

Other Info

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