Palantir Invests in A lot more SPAC Firms, and Buys $51 Million in Gold Bars

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Palantir Technologies

has expanded its portfolio of investments in organizations likely community by way of SPACs, or special-objective acquisition firms, to properly over $300 million. 

As earlier reported, Palantir (ticker: PLTR) has started a method of investing in the young organizations in return for multi-calendar year commitments to use the company’s software package.

In its June quarter fiscal submitting with the Securities and Trade Commission, Palantir disclosed $250 million in commitments to a group of 10 businesses as a result of June 30. That includes eight discovered by identify, all formerly announced—Lilium, Sarcos Robotics, Roivant Sciences,

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(CELU), Wejo, Babylon Health, Boxed, Pear Therapeutics—and two some others described only as “mobility company” and “autonomous automobile enterprise.” Palantir mentioned it has industrial contracts with that team of companies with a probable price of $428 million. All of those people transactions have been signed in the time period from March 30 to June 22, and to day, none have been done, the filing demonstrates.

A company of info-analytics software program for each professional and authorities customers, Palantir also claimed that due to the fact June 30, it has dedicated an additional $60 million in new investments, like: $20 million for Fast Radius, which presents a “cloud producing platform” $15 million for Tritium, a developer of electrical car chargers $15 million for AdTheorent, which sells equipment-learning pushed marketing software package and $10 million for FinAccel, an Asian economic-providers corporation with workplaces in Singapore and Jakarta.

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Palantir also disclosed that it has concluded fairness investments of $25 million in an “electric auto company,” $3 million in an “autonomous aerial automobile corporation,” and $5 million in Astrocast, which operates a network of nanosatellites. That brings the total expense motivation to more than $330 million.

Palantir also disclosed that it ordered $50.7 million in 100-ounce gold bars. “Such obtain will at first be kept in a protected 3rd-party facility positioned in the northeastern United States and the organization is ready to just take actual physical possession of the gold bars stored at the facility at any time with acceptable see,” Palantir mentioned in the submitting.

The corporation did not present a explanation for the gold invest in.

As of June 30, Palantir had about $2.4 billion in funds.

Generate to Eric J. Savitz at [email protected]