Speed. That’s what it’s all about these days. The problem: it’s still more effective to use FedEx than trying to squeeze a data load across a network. It’s an absurd reality when it requires a plane to move data from one place to another.
It’s not necessary to move terabytes of data all day, all night. Moving hard drives across the continent for a feature film is different from… → Read More
Palantir just scooped up some fresh minds to aid its mission of analyzing the world’s information. Today Y Combinator Summer 2012 startup Voicegem announced its team is joining Palantir, and it will shut down its voice email service in mid-March. Voicegem had delivered over one million seconds of voice recordings, but now its makers are moving to a team that’s “truly changing the world.” → Read More
Editor’s note: Joe Lonsdale is a General Partner at Formation 8, an early-growth technology fund. He is co-founder of Palantir and Addepar and is proud to be behind other successful mission-driven technology companies.
When we saw a huge gap in the government’s technology response to 9/11 and founded Palantir in 2004, Silicon Valley venture capitalists refused to invest. They said “no”… → Read More
Palantir Technologies has raised $70 million in Series F funding, we’ve confirmed with the company. This brings Palantir’s total funding to nearly $200 million. While the company declined to reveal the valuation in the round, we’ve learned from sources that it is around $2.5 billion. Two unnamed New York-based hedge funds anchored the round, and multiple early investors and university endowments… → Read More
Editor’s note: Previously, in “The Math of TechCrunch, Part I: Is TechCrunch Still About Startups?” guest author Mark Goldenson analyzed more than 20,000 TechCrunch stories to find out how much we actually cover startups versus big companies. In this post, he drills down by investors, authors, and market segments. Goldenson is CEO of Breakthrough.com, a startup that helps people find a… → Read More
When Alex Karp needed funding for a young start up named Palantir in 2005, dozens of investors said “No.”
He was trying to sell them on the idea of a high-powered analysis platform that could scan multiple databases simultaneously— a tool that government officials and corporations could use to tackle complex problems.
“Enterprise is a dirty word and that’s the business we’re in, and government… → Read More
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