Wikipedia

Bruger:AntjeWie/Palantir Technologies

Skabelon:Pp-blp Skabelon:Infobox company Palantir Technologies, Inc. is a private American software and services company headquartered in Palo Alto, California which specializes in big data analysis. The company is known for two projects in particular: Palantir Gotham and Palantir Metropolis. Palantir Gotham is used by counter-terrorism analysts at offices in the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) and United States Department of Defense, fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, and cyber analysts at Information Warfare Monitor, while Palantir Metropolis is used by hedge funds, banks, and financial services firms.[1][2]

Founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel, Nathan Gettings, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen and Alex Karp, Palantir's original clients were federal agencies of the USIC. It has since expanded its customer base to serve state and local governments, as well as private companies in the financial and healthcare industries.[3] Alex Karp, Palantir's chief executive officer, announced in 2013 that the company would not be pursuing an IPO, as going public would make "running a company like ours very difficult".[4]

The company was valued at US$9 billion in early 2014, with Forbes stating that the valuation made Palantir "among Silicon Valley's most valuable private technology companies".[4] As of December 2014, Peter Thiel was Palantir's largest shareholder.[4] In January 2015, the company was valued at US$15 billion after an undisclosed round of funding with US$50 million in November 2014.[5] This valuation rose to US$20.33 billion in late 2015 as the company closed an $880 million round of funding.[6]

History redigér

2003–2008: Founding and early years redigér

 
Four of Palantir's five founders had formerly been involved with PayPal. Founder and chairman Peter Thiel is Palantir's largest shareholder as of late 2014

Though usually listed as having been founded in 2004, SEC filings state Palantir's official incorporation to be in May 2003 by Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), who named the start-up after the "seeing stone" in Tolkien's legendarium.[3] Thiel saw Palantir as a "mission-oriented company" which could apply software similar to PayPal's fraud recognition systems to "reduce terrorism while preserving civil liberties."[7]

In 2004, Thiel bankrolled the creation of a prototype by PayPal engineer Nathan Gettings and Stanford University students Joe Lonsdale and Stephen Cohen. That same year, Thiel hired Alex Karp, a former colleague of his from Stanford Law School, as chief executive officer.[8][9]

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company initially struggled to find investors. According to Karp, Sequoia Capital chairman Michael Moritz doodled through an entire meeting, and a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers executive lectured the founders about the inevitable failure of their company.[10] The only early investments were $2 million from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel, and $30 million from Thiel himself and his venture capital firm, Founders Fund.[1][2][11][12][13]

Palantir developed its technology by computer scientists and analysts from intelligence agencies over three years, through pilots facilitated by In-Q-Tel.[14][1] The company stated computers alone using artificial intelligence could not defeat an adaptive adversary. Instead, Palantir proposed using human analysts to explore data from many sources, called intelligence augmentation.[15]

2009: GhostNet and the Shadow Network redigér

In 2009 and 2010 respectively, Information Warfare Monitor used Palantir software to uncover the GhostNet and the Shadow Network. The GhostNet was a China-based cyber espionage network targeting 1,295 computers in 103 countries, including the Dalai Lama’s office, a NATO computer and various national embassies.[16] The Shadow Network was also a China-based espionage operation that hacked into the Indian security and defense apparatus. Cyber spies stole documents related to Indian security and NATO troop activity in Afghanistan.[17][18]

2010–2012: Expansion redigér

In April 2010, Palantir announced a partnership with Thomson Reuters to sell the Palantir Metropolis product as QA Studio.[19] On June 18, 2010, Vice President Joe Biden and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag held a press conference at the White House announcing the success of fighting fraud in the stimulus by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB). Biden credited the success to the software, Palantir, being deployed by the federal government.[20] He announced that the capability will be deployed at other government agencies, starting with Medicare and Medicaid.[21][22][23][24]

Estimates were $250 million in revenues in 2011.[25]

2013–2016: Additional funding redigér

"[As of 2013] the U.S. spy agencies also employed Palantir to connect databases across departments. Before this, most of the databases used by the CIA and FBI were siloed, forcing users to search each database individually. Now everything is linked together using Palantir."
— TechCrunch in January 2015[26]

A document leaked to TechCrunch revealed that Palantir's clients as of 2013 included at least twelve groups within the U.S. government, including the CIA, DHS, NSA, FBI, CDC, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point, the Joint IED-defeat organization and Allies, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. However, at the time the United States Army continued to use its own data analysis tool.[26] Also, according to TechCrunch, the U.S. spy agencies such as the CIA and FBI were linked for the first time with Palantir software, as their databases had previously been "siloed."[26]

In September 2013, Palantir disclosed over $196 million in funding according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.[27][28] It was estimated that the company would likely close almost $1 billion in contracts in 2014.[29] CEO Alex Karp announced in 2013 that the company would not be pursuing an IPO, as going public would make “running a company like ours very difficult.”[4] In December 2013, the company began a round of financing, raising around $450 million from private funders. This raised the company's value to $9 billion, according to Forbes, with the magazine further explaining that the valuation made Palantir "among Silicon Valley’s most valuable private technology companies."[4]

In December 2014, Forbes reported that Palantir was looking to raise $400 million in an additional round of financing, after the company filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission the month before. The report was based on research by VC Experts. If completed, Forbes stated Palantir's funding could reach a total of $1.2 billion.[4] As of December 2014, the company continued to have diverse private funders, Kenneth Langone and Stanley Druckenmiller, In-Q-Tel of the CIA, Tiger Global Management, and Founders Fund, which is a venture Firm operated by Peter Thiel, the chairman of Palantir. As of December 2014, Thiel was Palantir's largest shareholder.[4]

The company was valued at $15 billion in November 2014.[30] In June 2015, Buzzfeed reported the company was raising up to $500 million in new capital at a valuation of $20 billion.[31] By December 2015, it raised a further $880 million, while the company was still valued at $20 billion.[32] In February 2016, Palantir bought Kimono Labs, a startup which makes it easy to collect information from public facing websites.

In August 2016, Palantir acquires data visualization startup Silk.[33] Its UK based data mining startup Gray Havens is the central point for the Europe's expansion of the company.[34]

Products redigér

Palantir Gotham redigér

Palantir Gotham (formerly known as Palantir Government) integrates structured and unstructured data, provides search and discovery capabilities, knowledge management, and secure collaboration. The Palantir platform includes the privacy and civil liberties protections mandated by legal requirements such as those in the 9/11 Commission Implementation Act of 2004. Palantir’s privacy controls purportedly keep investigations focused, as opposed to the expansive data mining techniques that have drawn criticism from privacy advocates concerned about civil liberties protection. Palantir maintains security tagsSkabelon:Explain at a granular level.[2][13]

Palantir previously ran the site AnalyzeThe.US,[35] which allowed potential Palantir customers and affiliates to use Palantir Gotham to perform analysis on publicly available data from data.gov, usaspending.gov, the Center for Responsive Politics’ Open Secrets Database, and Community Health Data from hhs.gov.[36]

Palantir Metropolis redigér

Palantir Metropolis (formerly known as Palantir Finance) is software for data integration, information management and quantitative analytics. The software connects to commercial, proprietary and public data sets and discovers trends, relationships and anomalies, including predictive analytics.

Other redigér

The company has been involved in a number of business and consumer products, designing in part or in whole. For example, in 2014, they premiered Insightics, which according to the Wall Street Journal "extracts customer spending and demographic information from merchants’ credit-card records." It was created in tandem with credit processing company First Data."[37]

Customers redigér

Private civilian use redigér

  Se også: Information Warfare Monitor.

Palantir Metropolis is used by hedge funds, banks, and financial services firms.[1][2][17][38]

Palantir partner Information Warfare Monitor used Palantir software to uncover both the Ghostnet and the Shadow Network.[17][39][40]

U.S. civil entities redigér

Palantir’s software is used by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to detect and investigate fraud and abuse in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Specifically, the Recovery Operations Center (ROC) used Palantir to integrate transactional data with open-source and private data sets that describe the entities receiving stimulus funds.[bør uddybes][23] Other clients as of 2013 included Polaris Project,[41] the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.[26]

U.S. military, intelligence, and police redigér

Palantir Gotham is used by counter-terrorism analysts at offices in the United States Intelligence Community and United States Department of Defense, fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, and cyber analysts at Information Warfare Monitor (responsible for the GhostNet and the Shadow Network investigation).

Other clients as of 2013 included DHS, NSA, FBI, CDC, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point, the Joint IED-defeat organization and Allies. However, at the time the United States Army continued to use its own data analysis tool.[26] Also, according to TechCrunch, "The U.S. spy agencies also employed Palantir to connect databases across departments. Before this, most of the databases used by the CIA and FBI were siloed, forcing users to search each database individually. Now everything is linked together using Palantir."[26]

U.S. military intelligence used the Palantir product to improve their ability to predict locations of improvised explosive devices in its war in Afghanistan. A small number of practitioners reported it to be more useful than the United States Army's program of record, the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS-A). California Congressman Duncan D. Hunter complained of United States Department of Defense obstacles to its wider use in 2012.[42]

Palantir has also been reported to be working with various U.S. police departments, for example accepting a contract in 2013 to help the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center build a controversial license plates database for California.[43]

Palantir Night Live event redigér

Palantir hosts Palantir Night Live at Palantir’s McLean and Palo Alto offices. The event brings speakers from the intelligence community and technology space to discuss topics of common interest. Past speakers include Garry Kasparov; Nart Villeneuve from Information Warfare Monitor; Andrew McAfee, author of Enterprise 2.0; Nelson Dellis, memory athlete; and Michael Chertoff.[44]

Controversies redigér

WikiLeaks proposals (2010) redigér

In 2010 Hunton & Williams LLP allegedly asked Berico Technologies, Palantir, and HBGary Federal to draft a response plan to “the WikiLeaks Threat.” In early 2011 Anonymous publicly released HBGary-internal documents, including the plan. The plan proposed Palantir software would “serve as the foundation for all the data collection, integration, analysis, and production efforts.”[45] The plan also included slides, allegedly authored by HBGary CEO Aaron Barr, which suggested “[spreading] disinformation” and “disrupting” Glenn Greenwald’s support for WikiLeaks.[46]

Palantir CEO Karp ended all ties to HBGary and issued a statement apologizing to “progressive organizations… and Greenwald … for any involvement that we may have had in these matters." Palantir placed an employee on leave pending a review by a third-party law firm. The employee, Matthew Steckman, was later reinstated.[45]

Discrimination lawsuit (2016) redigér

On September 26, 2016, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs of the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Palantir alleging that the company discriminated against Asian job applicants on the basis of their race.[47] According to the lawsuit, the company "routinely eliminated" Asian applicants during the hiring process, even when they were "as qualified as white applicants" for the same jobs.[48]

See also redigér

References redigér

  1. ^ a b c d Gorman, Siobhan (september 4, 2009). "How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade". The Wall Street Journal.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  2. ^ a b c d "A Tech Fix For Illegal Government Snooping?". NPR. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  3. ^ a b "A (Pretty) Complete History of Palantir". Maus Strategic Consulting. Hentet 2014-04-27.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Mac, Ryan (december 11, 2014). "Palantir Aiming To Raise $400 Million In New Round". Forbes. Hentet 2015-02-21.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  5. ^ "SEC FORM D". Securities and Exchange Commission. Hentet 2015-05-31.
  6. ^ Buhr, Sarah (december 23, 2015). "Palantir Has Raised $880 Million At A $20 Billion Valuation". TechCrunch.{{cite web}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  7. ^ Greenberg, Andy; Mac, Ryan (august 14, 2013). "How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut". Forbes.{{cite web}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  8. ^ "charlierose". Media.palantirtech.com. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  9. ^ "Palantir Technologies | CrunchBase Profile". Crunchbase.com. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  10. ^ "Contact information".
  11. ^ "Palantir « Founders Fund". Founders’ fund. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  12. ^ Evelyn Rusli (2010-06-25). "Palantir: The Next Billion-Dollar Company Raises $90 Million". TechCrunch. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  13. ^ a b "Alexander Karp". Charlie Rose. 2009-08-11. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  14. ^ Widman, Jeff (2009-06-05). "Palantir keeps it lean and mean on five-year journey from zero to 150 employees". VentureBeat. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  15. ^ Gesher, Ari (2010-03-08). "Friction in Human-Computer Symbiosis: Kasparov on Chess". Palantir tech. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  16. ^ "Video". CNN.
  17. ^ a b c Chiang, Oliver (2010-04-30). "PayPal-Based Technology Helped Bust India's And The Dalai Lama's Cyberspies". Forbes.
  18. ^ Markoff, John (marts 29, 2009). "Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries". The New York Times.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  19. ^ "Press release: Thomson Reuters and Palantir Technologies enter exclusive agreement to create next-generation analytics platform for financial clients". Thomson Reuters. 2010-04-12.
  20. ^ Tim Kauffman (2010-06-27). "The new high-tech weapons against fraud". Federal Times. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  21. ^ Kiely, Kathy (2010-06-18). "Obama administration to create 'do not pay' list to bar shady contractors". USA Today.
  22. ^ Peter Orszag, Director (2010-06-18). "Do Not Pay? Do Read This Post". Whitehouse.gov. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  23. ^ a b Eric Kuhn (juni 1, 2010). "Companies capitalize on 'open government'". Political Ticker blog. CNN. Hentet september 28, 2013.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  24. ^ "Using Palantir with Open Source Data: Finding and Preventing Fraud in Stimulus Spending". Palantir Technologies. 2010-05-04.
  25. ^ Ashlee Vance and Brad Stone (november 22, 2011). "Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon: A Silicon Valley startup that collates threats has quietly become indispensable to the U.S. intelligence community". Business Week Magazine. Hentet september 28, 2013.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Bruger authors parameter (link) CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  26. ^ a b c d e f Burns, Matt (januar 11, 2015). "Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions And Key Clients". TechCrunch. Hentet 2015-02-21.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  27. ^ "Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities". The United States Securities and Exchange Commission. september 27, 2013. Hentet september 28, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  28. ^ Cutler, Kim-Mai. "Palantir Is Raising $197M In Growth Capital, SEC Filing Shows". TechCrunch.
  29. ^ Andy Greenberg, Ryan Mac (september 2, 2013). "How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut". Forbes. Hentet september 28, 2013.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Bruger authors parameter (link) CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  30. ^ "Palantir raising more money after tagged with 15 billion valuation", The Wall Street Journal, jan. 16, 2015{{citation}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link).
  31. ^ Alden, William (juni 23, 2015). "Palantir Valued At $20 Billion In New Funding Round". Buzzfeed. Hentet juni 23, 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  32. ^ Buhr, Sarah (december 23, 2015). "Palantir Has Raised $880 Million At A $20 Billion Valuation". TechCrunch.{{cite web}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  33. ^ Condon, Stephanie. "Palantir acquires data visualization startup Silk". Hentet 10 august 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  34. ^ "Peter Thiel's Palantir Spreads Its Tentacles Throughout Europe". Bloomberg.com. 2017-02-24. Hentet 2017-03-06.
  35. ^ "AnalyzeThe.US — Home". Web site. Palantir. Hentet september 28, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  36. ^ "Palantir Technologies to Showcase Analysis at the Community Health Data Initiative Forum: Harnessing the Power of Information to". FierceHealthcare. 2010-06-02. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  37. ^ Sidel, Robin (februar 10, 2015). "First Data Reports First Quarterly Profit in More Than Seven Years". Wall Street Journal. Hentet 2015-02-25.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  38. ^ "A Human Driven Data-centric Approach to Accountability: Analyzing Data to Prevent Fraud, Waste and Abuse in Stimulus Spending: Gov 2.0 Expo 2010 - Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, May 25 - 27, 2010, Washington, DC". Gov2expo.com. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  39. ^ "CNN.com Video". CNN.
  40. ^ Markoff, John (marts 29, 2009). "Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries". The New York Times.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  41. ^ Knox, Karin (januar 24, 2014). "How Many Years A Slave?". Arkiveret fra originalen marts 4, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  42. ^ Scarborough, Rowan (juli 16, 2012). "Military has to fight to purchase lauded IED buster". The Washington Times. Hentet september 29, 2013.{{cite news}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  43. ^ Blagdon, Jeff (juni 29, 2013). "Palantir is helping California police develop controversial license plate database". The Verge.{{cite web}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  44. ^ "Society 2.0: Tenet, Chertoff and Beer, Oh My! | Washington Life Magazine". Washingtonlife.com. 2010-04-09. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  45. ^ a b Harris, Shane (31 januar 2012). "Killer App". Washingtonian. Hentet 14 marts 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)
  46. ^ James Wray and Ulf Stabe. "Data intelligence firms proposed a systematic attack against WikiLeaks". Thetechherald.com. Hentet 2012-01-30.
  47. ^ "COMPLAINT FOR VIOLATIONS OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11246" (PDF). United States Department of Justice.
  48. ^ Kosoff, Maya (september 27, 2016). "U.S. GOVERNMENT SUES PETER THIEL'S SECRETIVE BIG-DATA START-UP FOR DISCRIMINATION". Vanity Fair. Hentet oktober 31, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link)

External links redigér

Category:Business software companies Category:Big data companies Category:Companies established in 2004 Category:Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Category:Companies based in Palo Alto, California

Hentet fra "https://da.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruger:AntjeWie/Palantir_Technologies&oldid=8966891"