Investor

In-Q-Tel

The CIA's venture-capital arm. Provided early funding to Palantir.

The not-for-profit venture arm of the U.S. intelligence community, created to funnel Silicon Valley technology to the CIA and its partners. It was an early backer of Palantir.

Surveillance portfolio (2)

Palantir Technologies→Primer→

Incidents across the portfolio

Abuse

Powering ICE raids and deportations

2019

Palantir's case-management systems have been central to ICE operations targeting people for arrest and removal. Amnesty International warned the work risks contributing to human-rights violations.

↳USA: Failing to do right — the urgent need for Palantir to respect human rights — Amnesty International, 2020 ↗
↳How Palantir powers ICE — The Intercept, 2019

Abuse

Predictive policing in LA and New York

2018

Palantir quietly ran predictive-policing programs feeding person and location data into risk scores criticized for automating and entrenching racial bias.

↳How the LAPD and Palantir Use Data to Justify Racist Policing — The Intercept, 2021 ↗

Contract

$30M contract to build 'ImmigrationOS'

2025

Palantir took a contract to build ICE a system for near-real-time tracking to accelerate deportations — the most explicit surveillance-for-removal product yet.

↳Leaked: Palantir's Plan to Help ICE Deport People — 404 Media, 2025 ↗

Sources

↳In-Q-Tel and the CIA's startup pipeline — The Wall Street Journal, 2016