Alex Karp

Cofounder & CEO, Palantir

Alex Karp co-founded the data-mining software firm Palantir Technologies in 2004 and has been its chief executive since. Palantir works for agencies such as the US Department of Defense and the FBI, and has been public since 2020.

Net worth: $20.8B; Bloomberg, Oct 18, 2026
Company: 1

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Known for

Selling decision software to governments and defense ministries, and arguing loudly that someone has to.

Worth knowing

He was told he could write his Frankfurt doctoral thesis in English but insisted on writing it in German.
The New York Times ranked him the highest-paid CEO of a publicly traded company in 2020, the year Palantir went public, and in 2024 he was again the highest-paid CEO of a US public company.
The Economist, where he was once a director, named him its CEO of the Year for 2024.
According to Forbes, he occasionally teaches meditation classes at Palantir.

Age: 59
Based: Denver, CO
Primary role: CEO, Co-Founder & Director, Palantir Technologies
Citizenship: United States
Latest trade: Sold $86.1M of PLTR, 24 August 2026
Born: 1967, New York City

Latest on Alex Karp

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Palantir's £330 million NHS platform: 29 trusts say they are not using it before tonight's print

NHS England publicly credits trusts with "realizing benefits" from its £330 million Palantir platform; 29 of them told freedom of information requesters the system is not live or its apps unused. Palantir reports Q3 tonight into an AI sell-off, with the UK evidence officially unproven.

November 2, 2026 · 4 min read

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Latest on Alex Karp

Palantir's £330 million NHS platform: 29 trusts say they are not using it before tonight's print

Europe's politicians can block Palantir's contracts. Its taxpayers have already paid €1.4 billion

Palantir pays prime-contractor prices in Washington while Europe's armies say no

ICE cancels a $5 million to $10 million visa-vetting competition and moves the system onto Palantir Foundry

Ondas owns the Regna military-models venture outright; Palantir discloses no equity, price or contract

Europe Is Firing Palantir Over a Book Worth Ten Weeks of Revenue

Zeta Global hit a 52-week high of $34.83 after two acquisitions with no disclosed price

The Defense Department paid Palantir $2.05 billion in a year. The short case runs through the commercial line

No bid, no price, no schedule: ICE moves visa vetting onto Palantir Foundry

Goldman Sachs' $230 Palantir call leans on Nvidia, the first customer of their AI platform

Palantir's $126 million ICE tool profiled people who film ICE agents, a court filing shows

A Maine court filing puts Palantir's ICE database in evidence, weeks before Britain's £330m decision

Palantir grew 93% last quarter as Europe and India build its rivals

Activist Investor Pushes Fiserv to Deepen Cuts and Hand Palantir the Toll

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At Palantir

Largest fund holders of Palantir

Ties, as Forbes lists them

Either side by net worth

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Latest on Alex Karp

Palantir's £330 million NHS platform: 29 trusts say they are not using it before tonight's print

Europe's politicians can block Palantir's contracts. Its taxpayers have already paid €1.4 billion

Palantir pays prime-contractor prices in Washington while Europe's armies say no

ICE cancels a $5 million to $10 million visa-vetting competition and moves the system onto Palantir Foundry

Ondas owns the Regna military-models venture outright; Palantir discloses no equity, price or contract

Europe Is Firing Palantir Over a Book Worth Ten Weeks of Revenue

Zeta Global hit a 52-week high of $34.83 after two acquisitions with no disclosed price

The Defense Department paid Palantir $2.05 billion in a year. The short case runs through the commercial line

No bid, no price, no schedule: ICE moves visa vetting onto Palantir Foundry

Goldman Sachs' $230 Palantir call leans on Nvidia, the first customer of their AI platform

Palantir's $126 million ICE tool profiled people who film ICE agents, a court filing shows

A Maine court filing puts Palantir's ICE database in evidence, weeks before Britain's £330m decision

Palantir grew 93% last quarter as Europe and India build its rivals

Activist Investor Pushes Fiserv to Deepen Cuts and Hand Palantir the Toll

Connections

At Palantir

Largest fund holders of Palantir

Ties, as Forbes lists them

Either side by net worth