Palantir: company research

Industry

Data platforms & analytics

Headquarters

Denver, CO

Founded

2003

Size

4,000+ employees

Stage

Public

Website

palantir.com

(from our editorial profile)Source: palantir.com

Palantir's homepage lists five products: AIP, described as automating operations from the factory floor to the front lines; Gotham, for AI-driven combat superiority; Foundry, a developer platform for building and managing Ontology-powered software; Ontology, described as the central system for orchestrating decisions across Human+AI teams; and Apollo, for autonomously deploying, monitoring and managing software across any environment. A featured item describes "the Agent Stack, the Ontology-Powered Infrastructure Behind Agents That Work at Scale." Another featured item covers accelerating enterprise data migration with Palantir AIP.

Palantir's Q2 2026 shareholder letter, dated August 3, 2026, reports $1.9 billion in revenue for the second quarter, a 93% growth rate over the same period the year before, and $1.1 billion in profit. It reports record U.S. revenue of $1.6 billion, up 115% year over year, and record U.S. commercial revenue of $764 million, up 149% year over year. The letter states the company achieved these results with a "miniscule and shrinking sales headcount."

Palantir's About page states the company is "built around mission-driven engineering" and describes its staff as "engineers, not academics." It says the team combines practical expertise in distributed systems infrastructure, big data processing, user experience design and data science. The page states Palantir sends engineers into the field to work directly with customers, deploying products, integrating data and optimizing workflows, "producing operational results in weeks, not years."

Palantir's About page states that in 2003 the founders saw available technology as too rigid to handle novel problems, with custom systems that took too long to deploy and required too many services to maintain and improve. It also cites automated approaches that failed against adaptive adversaries, and all-or-nothing access controls that forced organizations to trade off collaboration against securing sensitive data. The page states the company designs privacy-protective capabilities into its products and works with advocacy groups and the policy community on technology and privacy.

Palantir's Q2 2026 shareholder letter frames the business around "the revolution for independence and AI sovereignty" and states the company is "one of the few companies in the technology industry that is fully aligned with its customers," being paid "as a derivative of value creation." It contrasts its results with conventional wisdom, noting it achieved growth with a "miniscule and shrinking sales headcount." The letter does not name specific competitors.

• Alexander C. KarpChief Executive Officer

Source: wikidata.org

• Q2 2026 | Letter to Shareholders

  palantir.com, 2026-08-03

• Accelerate Enterprise Data Migration with Palantir AIP

  palantir.com