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Alex Karp
KEY THREATS:
Authoritarian nationalist Military-industrial complex Surveillance state Deportation industrial complex Like far too many of America’s nerds, Alex Karp channeled his feelings of inadequacy into an obsession with military history and “Western civilization.” Unfortunately for Americans, Karp had the connections to turn that obsession into a career. As the co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, Karp supplies the surveillance tools that supports the ICE disappearance machine at home and the war machine abroad, including supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Karp supported Kamala Harris in 2024, then turned around and donated $1 million to Trump’s super PAC after he won the election. He has no real allegiances and no qualms working with the Trump/Vance administration as he believes arming America as key to projecting “Western” liberal democracy. This despite believing that if the far right came to power, he – as a ‘racially amorphous, far-left Jewish kid’ – would be among its victims.
NET WORTH
CEO
Palantir Technologies
OTHER COMPANIES
LINKED TO
Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Kamala Harris, Andrew Cuomo, Donald Trump
AGE
58
STATE
NH
PART OF
Political Ideology
Western Chauvinism:
- In a New York Times interview, Karp shared that his vision of Palantir has a “consistently pro-Western view that the West has a superior way of living”
- In a letter to prospective investors, stated that investing in Palantir would “support Western liberal democracy and its strategic allies”
- “The rise of the West,” Karp wrote, “was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence”
Techno-Nationalism:
- In his book The Technological Republic, wrote: “Why must we always defer to the wisdom of the crowd when it comes to allocating scarce capital in a market economy?”
- Critiqued Silicon Valley for being insufficiently pro-military and called on tech engineers to switch to building weapons to maintain US military supremacy
Controversies
- Outspoken supporter of and partner to Israel’s genocide
- Supplies the Israeli Ministry of Defense with their suite of AI-powered recognition and targeting software
- Encouraged and sent Palantir employees to support Israel’s military operations after October 7th
- Opposed pro-Palestine protests and called on encampment protestors to be sent to North Korea for ‘re-education’
- Described fantasies of “exacting revenge” on Silicon Valley rivals using drone technology
Obscene Spending
- Owns 10 houses around the world
Enabling:
Deportation Industrial Complex
Alex Karp is the co-founder and CEO of Palantir, which has long been the corporate backbone of ICE’s immigrant surveillance and disappearance apparatus. The surveillance tech company, which Karp has a $10 billion stake in, provides the agency with key surveillance software to analyze massive amounts of personal data — phone numbers, addresses, financial information, social media profiles — to track and locate their targets. Without Palantir’s technology, ICE would not be able to find, detain, and deport as many people as they currently do.
This relationship has expanded under Trump and Vance. In April 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded Palantir an additional $30 million to build ImmigrationOS, a new deportation surveillance platform that will use near real-time data to locate individuals for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, the division responsible for raids, detention and deportations.
