Palantir Technologies is a private American software company that specializes in big data analytics. Headquartered in Palo Alto; California; it was founded by Peter Thiel; Nathan Gettings; Joe Lonsdale; Stephen Cohen; and Alex Karp. Developer of data fusion platforms designed to integrate; visualize; secure and analyze information. The company's data fusion platform is designed to help human experts perform collaborative analysis of data at scale through machine-assisted analysis; enabling public institutions; private enterprises and the non-profit sectors to address the challenges of making sense of complex and diverse data.