Palantir Technologies offer a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing and analyzing information.
Palantir’s mission is to solve the most important problems for the world’s most important institutions.
Palantir was founded in 2004 by a handful of [PayPal](/company/paypal) alumni and Stanford computer scientists. Since then Palantir has doubled in size every year while retaining early-stage values: a startup culture, strong work ethic, and rigorous hiring standards.
Palantir works in a variety of problem areas for various customers in both private and public sector, helping them answer questions like:
* How do you prevent the next $65Bn ponzi scheme?
* How do you take down human trafficking networks?
* How can we help borrowers avoid foreclosure on a massive scale/stabilize housing?
* How can you prevent fraud in Medicare?
* Can you help governments save billions/identify ways to reduce spending?
* Can you help scientists monitor the environment after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
* How do you defend the IP of companies from cyber espionage by bad actors?
* How can you help stop the genocide in the Sudan?
* How can we help target gangs to end their violence?
Ross Fubini joined Canaan Partners Menlo Park office in 2012 as a Venture Partner. He focuses on the firms enterprise, consumer, and healthcare IT investment efforts.
Before joining Canaan, Ross was a partner at seed-stage technology investment firm Kapor Capital, where he led investments across consumer, enterprise, and health technology. He currently serves as an advisor to Kapor Capital, Palantir Technology, Facebook Causes, and other early stage technology companies.
Previously, Ross was a successful entrepreneur who co-founded and grew CubeTree, a Gartner Visionary enterprise social collaboration company which is used by the Fortune 100 including SAP, Intuit, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. CubeTree was acquired by SuccessFactors (NASDAQ:SFSF) in 2010 where he then served as a vice president.
Prior to that, Ross was Sr.
A former quant for Goldman Sachs, Gleb worked alongside Peter Thiel on a number of ventures, including Palantir, where he helped grow their finance division, and Clarium, where he managed a global macro portfolio. At MIT he studied computer science and finance. Gleb co-founded Authy Inc., a cloud security firm, and lead the company as its Chief Executive Officer through technology and product development, angel round of funding, and customer acquisition. Gleb was also a Founding Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer at an early stage venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, where he led fund formation, negotiated the Limited Partnership Agreement with investors, as well as supervised legal, audit, and accounting relationships. Gleb’s latest venture is Aragorn Technologies, where he serves as a founder and Chief Executive Officer.
Jon Chu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Koality.
Jon Chu is a Carnegie Mellon alum and a former dev at Palantir Technologies.
After too much head banging from broken builds, slow tests, and mismatching environments, Jon took it upon himself to bring devs their ideal development platform.
Brendan Eich is CTO and SVP of Engineering at Mozilla and widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet revolution. In 1995, Eich invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internets most widely used programming language. He co-founded the mozilla.org project in 1998, serving as chief architect, and has been a board member of the Mozilla Foundation since its inception in 2003. Brendan helped launch the award-winning Firefox Web browser in November 2004 and Thunderbird e-mail client in December 2004.
In August 2005, Brendan became CTO of Mozilla, and today also manages the product and platform engineering teams. His central focus is guiding the future technical work to keep Mozilla vital and competitive. In the greater Web community, Brendan remains dedicated to driving innovation in Internet technology with his work in JavaScript and with the Mozilla platform.
Kris Duggan is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for building innovative SaaS companies with thousands of delighted customers.
He is dedicated to helping brands on the web increase user engagement by leveraging proven techniques in social gaming and loyalty. A sought-after speaker on gamification and user engagement, Kris is a thought leader of innovative ways to incorporate game mechanics and real-time loyalty programs into web and mobile experiences.
Kris believes the next decade of the web will focus on loyalty, user segmentation, and motivation techniques linked to deep engagement analytics. Prior to founding Badgeville, he worked in leadership roles at a variety of successful companies, including WebEx, and across a wide variety of verticals.
He also closely advises Palantir Technologies.
Peter is [Clarium Capital](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/clarium-capital)’s President and the Chairman of the firm’s investment committee, which oversees the firm’s research, investment, and trading strategies. He is also a managing partner at [The Founders Fund](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/founders-fund).
Before starting Clarium, Peter served as Chairman and CEO of [PayPal](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/paypal), an Internet company he co-founded in December 1998 and was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.
Prior to founding PayPal, Peter ran Thiel Capital Management, the predecessor to Clarium, which started with $1 million under management in 1996.
Peter began his financial career as a derivatives trader at CS Financial Products, after practicing securities law at Sullivan & Cromwell.
Director of Forward Deployed Engineering at Palantir Technologies
Founder/CTO at Palantir Technologies
Product Designer at Palantir Technologies
Mr. Jared Weinstein is Partner of Thrive Capital. He worked in the White House between 2002 and 2009 and for three years served as President George W. Bush’s body man.
Steven Plunkett is a Network Engineer at Palantir Technologies Inc, based in Silicon Valley.
Brian Bland is the Co-Founder and CTO of Koality.
Brian believes that people should have the freedom to do exciting new things instead of being tasked with maintenance.
Koality is his chance to use his knowledge of systems to give time back to developers so they can enjoy more long walks on the beach.
Kevin has been involved in early stage technology & venture capital since the late nineties, first as an entrepreneur & then as an investor. He was a founding partner of Reed Elsevier Ventures in 2000 & has specialised in digital media, Internet and large scale data & technology investments since then.
Prior to REV Kevin was at SOFTBANK/ News Corporations European joint venture fund, eVentures. Prior to that he founded a venture backed derivatives pricing software company after starting his career in strategy consulting with Arthur Andersen.
Kevin holds a Master of Arts degree in Social and Political Sciences from Kings College, Cambridge.
Kevin serves as a director on the boards of Healthline, Fina Technologies, Intelligize, Martini Media, GigaOM & Struq. He was previously director at Inxight (acquired by Business Objects), Inpharmatica (acquired by Galapagos) and Recruiting.com & board observer at Intraspect (acquired by Vignette).
Tony has over twenty years experience of building and financing digital media and technology businesses.
He was a founding partner of Reed Elsevier Ventures in 2000 and focuses on digital media, Internet and big data & technology investments.
Kevin Hartz is the Co-Founder & CEO of Eventbrite and an early-stage investor. He was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company providing remittance services to over 40 countries worldwide. Xoom’s investors include Sequoia Capital, NEA, Fidelity Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank Capital, Stanford University, and Peter Thiel.
Kevin previously Co-Founded ConnectGroup, a start-up providing high-speed Internet access to the hotel industry that was acquired in 1998 by LodgeNet (LNET). Kevin has also worked in venture capital as an associate at Outlook Ventures and as a product manager at SGI.
Kevin has been an early-stage investor and advisor to numerous startups, including PayPal, Pinterest, Geni, Friendster, Airbnb, Counsyl, Milo, Skybox Imaging, Palantir, Indinero, TripIt, Flixster, Adnectar, Yammer, TokBox, iControl, Boku, Lookout, Anonymizer, and Trulia.
Steve Loughlin is an entrepreneur who is the Co-Founder and CEO of relateiq (www.relateiq.com).
Joe Lonsdale is a Partner at Formation 8, a fund which invests in top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and connects them with Asian conglomerates in order to give innovation a global impact.
Before that, Joe co-founded Palantir Technologies, a multi-billion dollar software company which develops mission-critical analysis systems used by government and financial organizations around the world.
He is also the founder of Addepar, a leader in private wealth management technology.
Previously, he worked with the financial arm of PayPal while still a student, and then joined as an early executive at Clarium Capital, and was a key player in growing Clarium into a $5-billion AUM global macro hedge fund.
On the side, Joe is Chairman of both ONEHOPE Inc, a charity-focused wine brand with partners such as the Mondavi family.
Joe has a variety of philanthropic pursuits, including the board of cacs.org. He earned a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2003.
Director of Engineering at Palantir Technologies
Director of Engineering at Palantir Technologies
Vice President, Finance at Palantir Technologies
Investor at Palantir Technologies