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Palantir Technologies
Enterprise software · Palo Alto, USA · Founded 2003 · IPO NYSE 2020 Decacorn
Founded in 2003 in Palo Alto, Palantir Technologies builds software platforms — Gotham for defense and intelligence, Foundry for the commercial enterprise, and AIP for large-language-model-driven workflows — that integrate, analyze, and act on operational data at scale. Customers include the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.K. NHS, BP, Airbus, and a long tail of large industrials.
Palantir IPO'd on the NYSE in September 2020 via direct listing and is one of only a handful of Decacorn-tier enterprise software companies built by a single team without major M&A. Its 741-family patent portfolio — tracked by Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap) — sits in a different category from most platform fintechs. See where its earliest backers rank →
Backed by Power Law investors
98 investors are on Palantir's cap table — including these Power Law-ranked funds
From our 2026 Power Law Investor Ranking. Palantir was famously hard to invest in — most VCs passed on the early rounds. The investors who got in had a near-monopoly on access. Grouped by the round at which each entered.
Palantir mafia
A defining alumni network in defense, fintech, and infrastructure
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale alone has launched Addepar, OpenGov, and 8VC. Former Palantir engineers founded Anduril, Anjuna Security, and dozens of other infrastructure-tier startups. Sourced from Dealroom's alumni founder dataset.
Global footprint
How Palantir is built — by talent, geography, and demand
An AI- and engineering-heavy workforce concentrated in the US, with strong demand from defense and intelligence customers across the Anglosphere.
(1,609 of 5,665 staff)
Palantir employees
across markets
Patent intelligence
$404M patent portfolio · 741 active families
Total estimated value via Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap), with quality scores compared against same-sector peers.
Quality vs same-sector peers
Palantir on the five Patsnap quality dimensions
Palantir in orange, the auto-picked peer in blue. All scores 0–100; higher is stronger.
Patent quality scores (0–100)
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Live patent feed, defense contract pipeline, founder pedigree, ARR trajectory, and the alumni network — open up Palantir's profile inside Dealroom.