Свежие новости и отзывы о Palantir

Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Jon Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. In a blog post published today, Lonsdale – who serves as 8VC’s general partner – said that his firm’s mission is “to fix a broken world.” While he did not specify which industries the new fund […] 8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims “to fix a broken world” by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

The White House this morning unveiled what it’s colloquially calling an “AI Bill of Rights,” which aims to establish tenants around the ways AI algorithms should be deployed as well as guardrails on their applications. In five bullet points crafted with feedback from the public, companies like Microsoft and Palantir and human rights and AI […] White House proposes voluntary safety and transparency rules around AI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Kurtosis, a crypto-focused developer tool system, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by tech-focused hedge fund Coatue. Investors in the round include Coinbase Ventures, the Chainsmokers’ Mantis VC and angel investor Olivier Pomel, who is the CEO and founder of Datadog, among others. The round comes about two years after its […]... →

The U.S. residential real estate market has been booming because of the pandemic. Although the rise in home prices has shut many people out of the market, it’s been highly lucrative for those who own property. The attractive returns in this sector have lured more investors into the market, but the processes associated with buying […]... →

Mosaic, which aims to change the way CFOs of high-growth companies operate, has raised $25 million in a Series B round of funding led by Founders Fund. Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo and Brian Campbell started San Diego-based Mosaic in 2019 after meeting at Palantir Technologies, where they worked on building out that company’s finance organization […]... →

Все большее число технологических миллиардеров хотят использовать свои средства, чтобы помочь людям «обмануть смерть». Основатель Amazon Джефф Безос, сооснователь Google Ларри Пейдж и основатель Palantir Питер Тиль — лишь некоторые из тех, кто проявляет интерес к развивающейся науке о долголетии. Но принесут ли их усилия пользу всему человечеству или только элитному кругу? Рассказываем, что думают эксперты и какие стартапы по продлению жизни поддерживают миллиардеры из Кремниевой долины.... →

Airplanes and drones today, regardless of size or fuel type, all face the same limitation: eventually they have to land. Skydweller Aero, the U.S.-Spanish aerospace startup, wants to break free from that constraint by developing an autonomous solar-powered aircraft it says will eventually be capable of perpetual flight. Their pitch, which helped the company raise […]... →

A new report claims Peter Thiel's AI company Palantir had a glitch in its software used by the FBI that allowed unauthorized personnel to access private data for more than a year.... →

To compete with the myriad venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, iFly.vc has a unique vantage point. Its founder Han Shen has straddled the United States and China for several decades. He was the first hire on the investment team of Formation 8, the VC firm co-founded by Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale. After iFly.vc backed Weee! […]... →

Connected vehicle data startup Wejo has announced partnerships with Microsoft, Palantir and Sompo Holdings to improve its ability to collect, store and analyze data from millions of connected vehicles around the world.  This follows the GM-backed startup’s announcement that it would be going public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, Virtuoso Acquisition Corp., […]... →

Wejo, the connected vehicle data startup backed by GM and Palantir, plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Virtuoso Acquisition Corp. The agreement, announced in a regulator filing Friday, will give the combined company an enterprise valuation of $800 million, which includes debt. The deal raises $330 million in proceeds […]... →

Сооснователь PayPal, соучредитель Palantir и инвестор Питер Тиль получил нераскрытую часть акций в Blackrock Neurotech после вложения $10 млн, сообщает CNBC. Blackrock Neurotech основана в 2008 году, компания занимается продажей оборудования и программного обеспечения в области нейробиологии и разрабатывает технологию мозговых имплантов. Компания прибыльна с 2015 года и ранее не привлекала значительного венчурного финансирования. Компания разрабатывает чипы размером несколько миллиметров для людей с огранич... →

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we — Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace — had a lot to get through, as the news volume in early 2021 has been rapid, and serious. Sadly this means that some early-stage rounds missed the […]... →

It’s probably no wonder that when Founders Fund was still a very young venture firm 13 years ago, it brought aboard as its first principal Justin Fishner-Wolfson. Having nabbed two computer science degrees from Stanford and spent two years as CEO of an organizationthat provides asset management services to the school’s student organizations, Fishner-Wolfson wasn’t […]... →

You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital, a four-year-old, Bay Area-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it. XYZ says it has already backed 22 startups whose founders came out of the data analysis company, including most notably, Anduril, Lucky Palmer’s defense tech startup. In fact, the […]... →

Palantir’s push into federal health work continues. The data analytics company just picked up a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration contract which will span three years for a total of $44.4 million. The company’s shares, which have doubled in value over the last two months, are up around 20 percent on the news. As […]... →

World events have so far not stopped the enthusiasm for tech investing, and really, where else are those dollars going to go?... →

This week’s pair of direct listings from Asana and Palantir were historic moments for each firm, but they also served as public business experiments. For Palantir, the event tested how far corporate governance could be twisted while leaving an underlying remain worth buying in the eyes of public shareholders. And with Asana, its direct listing […]... →

The markets are closed and the verdicts are in: investors liked what they saw in Palantir and Asana . The two companies, which debuted this morning in dual (and duel) direct listings, continued to prove that enterprise tech companies without the brand recognition of Spotify (which conducted its own direct listing back in 2018) can […]... →

In a newly released letter, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued words of warning to the SEC over Palantir’s efforts to take the company public, cautioning the regulatory body over details the progressive congresswoman says were “omitted” in the company’s disclosures. Illinois Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García co-authored the letter, embedded below, which was submitted to […]... →