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Palantir

Foundry, Gotham, AIP. Defense + commercial data platforms.

HQ Denver, USFounded 2003publicWebsite

On the watchlist — 4.8k employees.

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Headcount
4.8k
0.0%
90d change
+0.2%
Funding events (90d)
0
1 all-time tracked
Layoff events (90d)
0

Signals

source: PDL v25
Inferred revenue
$1B-$10B
PDL estimate
Revenue / employee
$1.1M
midpoint ÷ headcount
12-month turnover
18.4%
within typical band
Average tenure
3.4 yrs
long — sticky culture
Time since last raise
2y 11mo
runway question

Hiring flow · Palantir

source: PDL v25

Headcount by role

12-month growth · PDL v25
Engineering
2,352
+10%
Operations
214
-6%
Analyst
198
+13%
Product
131
-12%
Partnerships
118
-11%
Fulfillment
74
+1%
Human Resources
69
-24%
Legal
65
-7%
Other
253

In the news

relevance ≥ 6 · last 180 days
  1. Air & Space Forces5d ago
    In First, TRANSCOM Operationalized AI Agents to Support Epic Fury

    Palantir's Maven Smart System is named as a tool TRANSCOM uses for data fusion during operations, but the article focuses on TRANSCOM's AI deployment, not Palantir.

  2. TechCrunch21d ago
    What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

    Mentioned as a business-model reference point: Mistral follows Palantir's playbook of forward-deployed engineers for enterprise adoption.

  3. TechCrunch25d ago
    Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic

    Credited as pioneer of FDE model but not a primary subject; mentioned for context only.

  4. Air & Space Forces26d ago
    New AI ‘Agent Network’ Could Gather Intel Faster for Strike Packages

    Palantir's Maven Smart System is a key component of the Pentagon's new Agent Network initiative for AI-enabled targeting.

  5. Defense News1mo ago
    US Army commissions second cohort of tech executives into innovation unit

    Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar was part of the first cohort commissioned into Army innovation unit.

  6. Defense News1mo ago
    Ukraine’s defense AI chief predicts ‘new paradigm’ of warfare

    Palantir named as a U.S. company providing AI systems to Ukraine for battlefield operations.

  7. Defense News2mo ago
    France to test its own AI-powered battlefield command in June NATO exercise

    Significant subject as developer of Maven Smart System; article frames French Arcadia as a competing alternative to Palantir's platform.

  8. The Verge3mo ago
    AI backlash is coming for elections

    CEO Alex Karp quoted claiming Democratic voters could see economic hit while working-class voters benefit; cited as tech executive driving AI backlash.

Events

Layoff · 2.17% (106 roles)
Departures in 2025-08: 170 vs 6-mo baseline of 64.5 (2.64× spike). Derived from PDL.
1y ago
Funding · post ipo equity · $10M
3y ago
Layoff · 2.13% (45 roles)
Departures in 2015-09: 62 vs 6-mo baseline of 17 (3.65× spike). Derived from PDL.
11y ago
Layoff · 3.08% (45 roles)
Departures in 2013-08: 55 vs 6-mo baseline of 10 (5.5× spike). Derived from PDL.
13y ago

Score history