April 14, 2015
Palantir Technologies is a Silicon Valley company solving the information needs of the U.S. government.
For diehard fans of The Lord of the Rings series, “Palantir” is a familiar word. The Palantíri are the smooth dark spheres used by Saruman and others as seeing stones to communicate in Middle-earth.
Palantir Technologies, Inc. took its name from these fabled seeing stones. In 2003, it was founded by former cofounder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, with the mission to apply software similar to PayPal’s fraud-recognition systems “to solve the world’s hardest problems while simultaneously protecting individual liberty.” Palantir was originally funded, partially, through the Central Intelligence Agency’s venture-capital arm In-Q-Tel.
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