Headquartered in Palo Alto , California , Palantir is a software company that specialises in providing big data analytics for government agencies and private firms . The company was founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel , former co-founder of PayPal , as well as Nathan Gettings , Joe Lonsdale , Stephen Cohen and Alex Kar . In 2016 , Palantir announced that it had acquired Dutch data visualisation firm Silk . Today , Pitchbook reports that Palantir is valued at approximately US $ 20.5bn . www . palantir . com

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