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.
Anuj Bhalla is the founder and CEO of serviceMob, an Irvine, California enterprise software company that brings order to the chaos of customer service data. A UC Berkeley applied mathematician and MIT Sloan Fellow, he spent over a decade leading Accenture's Service Analytics Strategy practice and filing three patents before building serviceMob around a concept he calls 'Ontolytics' - analytics layered on top of a unifying data ontology to illuminate the 'dark, unexplored data' that hides inside support operations. He was named a 2024 CEO Visionary by the Los Angeles Times and his company earned a spot on MIT's STEX25 startup roster.