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Palantir Technologies Inc. is an American software company founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp and co-workers. Its name refers to the "palantirs" – omniscient crystal bullets in Tolkien's novel. The company builds integrated platforms that let to combine distributed data sets – from financial transactions and papers to satellite images and radio signals** – and analyse them in one, strictly controlled environment.