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Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by vinay427 on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @08:40PM (#10786632)
One of their investors is In-Q-Tel, a CIA organization that's apparently designed to bring the best technology into the Agency's hands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

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Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by joering2 on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @09:03PM (#10786698)
Correct, In-Q-Tel wrote initial checks for Google and Facebook. Someone figured that instead of having a fancy logo of an octopus reaching out over the globe of earth (or an eye above pyramid), its much better to just found a company with fancy logo with colored fonts, or an F, and make them harvest intel instead.
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