Palantir Technologies

Software company behind Gotham, Foundry, Apollo and AIP. Facts only; no investment view.

Overview

• Incorporated in Delaware on 2003-05-06; “founded in 2003” to build software for the US intelligence community (FY2025 10-K, notes and Item 1, primary). The 10-K names Stephen Cohen, Alexander Karp and Peter Thiel as “Founders” (voting agreements); Joe Lonsdale and Nathan Gettings as co-founders are Wikipedia only. Thiel: Peter Thiel.
• Leadership (primary): Alexander Karp is Chief Executive Officer and a founder; Peter Thiel is Chairman of the Board (FY2025 10-K); Shyam Sankar is quoted as CTO in the 2024-08-08 Microsoft release.
• Listing: Class A shares began trading on the NYSE on 2020-09-30 (10-K performance-graph text); the FY2025 10-K and the 2026 10-Q cover pages list ticker PLTR on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC.
• Headquarters: the 10-K cover (filed 2026-02-17) gives principal executive offices at 19505 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 2350, Aventura, Florida, with the former address in Denver, Colorado; Item 2 says Denver “was the location of our corporate headquarters”, with other leased properties in Palo Alto, New York City, Washington D.C. and London.

Products

• Four principal platforms (10-K Item 1): Gotham (defense and intelligence), Foundry (data operations platform; Ontology), Apollo (continuous delivery) and AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform). Detail: Palantir Foundry and AIP.
• AIP bootcamps were introduced in 2023 to the customer-acquisition process, delivering workflows on customer data “in days” (FY2023 10-K).

Segments and revenue

• Two reportable segments, Government and Commercial (FY2025 10-K, segment note).
• Total revenue (XBRL, primary): FY2024 2,865,507,000 USD; FY2025 4,475,446,000 USD (10-K filed 2026-02-17, accession 0001321655-26-000011).
• FY2025 by segment (10-K, thousands USD): Government 2,402,287 (FY2024 1,569,605); Commercial 2,073,159 (FY2024 1,295,902). Segment contribution margin 66% for each in FY2025.
• H1 2026 (10-Q filed 2026-08-04): Government 1,848,442 and Commercial 1,719,605 (thousands USD, six months to 2026-06-30).

Partnerships

• Microsoft: announced 2024-08-08; Palantir Foundry, Gotham, Apollo and AIP to be deployed in Azure Government, Azure Government Secret (DoD Impact Level 6) and Azure Top Secret clouds, with Azure OpenAI Service in classified environments; Palantir Federal Cloud Service authorized for IL5 on Azure (Microsoft news release, primary). See Microsoft.
• Databricks: strategic product partnership announced 2025-03-13 combining AIP and the Ontology with Databricks’ Data + AI Platform, integrating Unity Catalog via Delta Sharing (joint Databricks/Palantir press release, primary); Databricks.

Sources

All fetched 2026-10-08 unless noted.

• FY2025 10-K: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000132165526000011/pltr-20251231.htm (primary)
• FY2023 10-K: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000132165524000022/pltr-20231231.htm (primary)
• 10-Q (Q2 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm (primary)
• https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001321655.json and …/api/xbrl/companyconcept/CIK0001321655/us-gaap/RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax.json (primary, 2026-10-07)
• https://news.microsoft.com/2024/08/08/palantir-and-microsoft-partner-to-deliver-enhanced-analytics-and-ai-services-to-classified-networks-for-critical-national-security-operations/ (primary)
• https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/palantir-and-databricks-announce-strategic-product-partnership (primary, dated 2025-03-13)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies (secondary, lead only)

Open items

• Unverified (Wikipedia only, so not asserted above): Lonsdale/Gettings as co-founders, the Gotham 2008 release year, AIP launch month (April 2023), the plan to move headquarters to Miami (the 10-K shows Aventura, which is in the Miami area), and Stephen Cohen’s officer title.