Palantir, the controvertible analytics as well-built as documents mining firm, still relies heavily on its US government contracts for acquirement despite its purchasable statements that it was branching out into over-and-above piled clients, equal to screenshots of the company's S-1 filing acquired by TechCrunch. The financials, which the New York Times moreover has viewed, show Palantir has not already vehement a savings when its founding in 2003.
Add to that the news it's moving out of Silicon Valley due to "increasing languorous as well-built as monoculture," as well-built as you end up with a picture of a company that doesn't have a lot of headway potential. It's now articulated Palantir is dependent on the customary conducting in Washington to maintain its factual acquirement streams.
Palantir confidentially filed for an IPO last month, except has yet to indicate when it will go public. The S-1 filing shows Palantir had acquirement of $742.5 million in 2019, a 25 percent increase from the aforementioned timelessness a year earlier. Except that wasn't enumerated to enclosure expenses; the company had a net loss of $580 million, according to the Times. It has a private bazaar valuation of $20 billion, as well-built as has upon over-and-above than $3 billion in funding. That net loss is partly explained by how much money Palantir is called-for on marketing -- the company spent $450 million on marketing in two years.
As for the increase in revenue, $102 million came from factual Palantir customers, equal to TechCrunch's analysis. Palantir brought in $345.5 million from work with the US government last year, as well-built as $397 million from commercial clients, equal to the Times.
Palantir is all-time legit for its work with the US government, which have included a contract with the Bowlegs to develop a new intelligence estimation platform, worth an guessed $823 million. It's moreover worked in the past with US Customs as well-built as Brim Protection to track immigrants as well-built as travelers at the border, as well-built as in 2018, was uncork to be secretly testing its predictive policing software in New Orleans.
More recently, Palantir was discovered to be building a utensil for the Department of Healthfulness as well-built as Human Services (HHS) to track the suggest of the coronavirus. It remains cryptic how that documents is stuff used as well-built as collected.
Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel supported Presidium Trump's ballot in 2016, as well-built as he has reportedly used his status as a unite of Facebook's committee of directors to shoving policies that help the president, hostilely when it comes to oversight of political ads on the platform. Headmost on, Thiel supported the president's reelection, except last ages reportedly said he was idyll himself from Trump.
The last 12 months have been a tough time for unicorns; the much-anticipated WeWork IPO flopped as well-built as was withdrawn, resulting in co-founder Adam Neumann leaving (with a $1.7 billion payout) as well-built as suing broker SoftBank for discontinuity of contract. Short-term rental platform Airbnb confidentially filed for an IPO last week, with the Wall Artery Periodical valuing the company at proximate half of its peak 2017 value. So it's rock-hard to prognosticate who, in 2020, would seek to buy stock in a company legit for its clandestineness as well-built as technology with questionable privateness controls. Hostilely when these documents suggest Palantir falls short of the hype.
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