Who is behind Palantir Technologies?
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners.
Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
On the record
Sourced links that no one presents as their own account, as recorded so far. Others may exist.
Founded by
- Peter Thiel founded 2003 co-founder and chair Primary record 1
Money in
Proof 3 sources
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Palantir Technologies Inc. registration statement (Form S-1/A), September 2020, Palantir Technologies, Sep 2020.
Primary record
Mr. Thiel is one of our co-founders and has served as the Chairman of our Board of Directors since 2003.
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Meet the CIA-backed venture fund behind Palantir, Anduril, and a spy tool that might be on your phone, Fortune, 29 Jul 2025.
Scholarship & press
In-Q-Tel also backed Palantir, supplier of big-data analytics to the military and intel agencies.
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Palantir raises $450m in latest fund-raising round, The Register, 24 Jul 2015.
Scholarship & press
It was also backed in its early stages by the the CIA's In-Q-Tel venture capital arm.
How this answer is built
Lines on the record come first: sourced links that no one presents as their own account, each with its strongest source. Then every account recorded here gets its own column, A to Z, none ranked above another. A column quotes only that account's own words and shows the strength of its own sources. Disputed lines are listed apart, with the reason, and lines still being verified come last. Neither is counted. Withdrawn lines are never shown.
When a list is longer than the page shows, the links the public methodology ranks strongest stay (methodology 0.3), and the rest open in the explorer.
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