Palantir Technologies
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Palantir Technologies is a data analytics and software company founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan Gettings 1. Thiel named the company after the “seeing stone” in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium 1. The company initially focused on intelligence community applications, with the CIA’s venture capital arm In-Q-Tel as one of its earliest backers 2. Palantir went public via direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange on September 30, 2020, under the ticker symbol “PLTR” 1. Because the offering was a direct listing, no new capital was raised — existing shareholders sold shares into the public market. The reference price was $7.25 per share and the stock opened at $10 10.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2006 | Series A | $7.5M | Oakhouse Partners | Pensco 3 |
| Nov 2006 | Series B | $10.5M | REV | — 3 |
| Mar 2008 | Series C | ~$36.8M | — | In-Q-Tel, REV 3 5 |
| Nov 2009 | Series D | $90M | Founders Fund | Glynn Capital, Ulu Ventures, Youniversity Ventures, Jeremy Stoppelman, Ben Ling 3 6 |
| May 2011 | Series E | $50M | — | — 3 5 |
| Oct 2011 | Series F | $68M | — | — 3 7 |
| Oct 2012 | Series G | $56M | Founders Fund | Glynn Capital, Ulu Ventures, Youniversity Ventures, Jeremy Stoppelman, Ben Ling 8 |
| Sep 2013 | Series H | $196.5M | — | — 3 5 |
| Feb 2014 | Growth | $111.3M | — | Ken Langone, Stanley Druckenmiller 2 1 |
| Sep 2014 | Series I | $444.2M | — | Tiger Global Management 2 1 |
| Dec 2014 | Series J | $50M | — | — 9 |
| Jul 2015 | Series K | $880M | Kortschak Investments | Morgan Stanley 3 4 |
| Nov 2016 | Late Stage | $20M | Goldman Sachs | — 4 |
| Aug 2020 | Corporate | $960M | Sompo Holdings | — 4 |
| Sep 2020 | IPO (Direct Listing) | — | — | NYSE: PLTR 1 10 |
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