# Palantir Technologies

> Palantir Technologies builds software platforms that integrate large, messy data sets and put them to work for decision-making. Founded in 2003 in the shadow of PayPal's fraud-detection work, the company sells four flagship products - Gotham, Foundry, Apollo, and the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) - to governments, defense and intelligence agencies, and commercial enterprises in finance, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing. Led by co-founder and CEO Alex Karp, Palantir has grown from a controversial government contractor into a fast-growing public company riding demand for operational AI.

- **Founded:** 2003
- **Headquarters:** Denver, Colorado, USA
- **Founders:** Alex Karp (Co-founder & CEO), Peter Thiel (Co-founder & Chairman), Joe Lonsdale (Co-founder), Stephen Cohen (Co-founder), Nathan Gettings (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 4,000+ employees
- **Products:** Palantir Gotham, Palantir Foundry, Palantir Apollo, Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP)
- **Notable:** Grew from a secretive government contractor into a public company (NYSE: PLTR) via a 2020 direct listing., Reported ~$4.475B revenue in FY2025 and 85% year-over-year growth in Q1 2026, its fastest since IPO., Rule of 40 score reached 145%, pairing high growth with strong margins.

## Products & services

- **Palantir Gotham** — The flagship platform for defense, intelligence, and government operators - integrates disparate data to detect patterns, identify threats, and drive mission decisions.
- **Palantir Foundry** — A data operations platform for commercial and government enterprises. Its Ontology models an organization's data, logic, and workflows into digital objects analysts and AI can act on.
- **Palantir Apollo** — A continuous software delivery system that installs, updates, and monitors Palantir platforms across cloud, on-premise, and classified environments.
- **Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP)** — Connects large language models and AI to an organization's real data and operations, enabling AI-assisted decisions inside governed, high-stakes workflows.

## Achievements

- Grew from a secretive government contractor into a public company (NYSE: PLTR) via a 2020 direct listing.
- Reported ~$4.475B revenue in FY2025 and 85% year-over-year growth in Q1 2026, its fastest since IPO.
- Rule of 40 score reached 145%, pairing high growth with strong margins.
- Signed 26 partnerships across 15 sectors in roughly 10 months during 2025.
- Established AIP as a leading platform for putting AI into real operational workflows.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Reported ~85% year-over-year revenue growth in Q1 2026, the fastest expansion since its 2020 market debut, and raised full-year 2026 guidance to roughly $7.65B.
- **2026-02** — Posted Q4 2025 revenue of ~$1.41B (up ~70% YoY) and FY2025 revenue of ~$4.475B.
- **2025-12** — Formed the Accenture Palantir Business Group to accelerate enterprise AI deployments.
- **2025-11** — Reported 26 partnerships across 15 sectors in about 10 months, signaling a broad commercial expansion.

## Links

- Website: https://www.palantir.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/palantir-technologies
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/PalantirTech
- GitHub: https://github.com/palantir
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@palantirtech

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Last updated: 2026-07-16