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Are Flock and Palantir both owned by billionaire Peter Thiel? [coloradosun.com]:

No.

While Peter Thiel cofounded Palantir and currently sits on its board of directors, he has never been on Flock’s board and did not help start the company.

Founders Fund, a venture capital firm Thiel started in 2005, did invest in Flock’s latest $275 million “fundraising round” last spring. Flock has not shared individual investment amounts publicly.

Flock Group Inc. was founded in 2017 by Garrett Langley, Matt Feury and Paige Todd and has provided a network of automated license plate reader cameras to the city of Denver since 2024. Both Flock and Palantir, a data and surveillance technology company headquartered in Denver, have faced criticism over privacy concerns and their use in immigration enforcement.

Palantir has contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement worth nearly $140 million, and police departments across the U.S. accessed Denver’s Flock data for ICE- and immigration-related searches nearly 1,400 times between 2024 and 2025.

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Sources References:

Denver extends Flock surveillance, Denverite, October 2025. Source link [denverite.com]

Department of Homeland Security Award Summary, USASpending.gov, accessed February 2026. Source link [usaspending.gov]

Flock Secures $275 Million, Flock Safety, Mar. 13, 2025. Source link [flocksafety.com]

Palantir Board of Directors, Palantir, accessed February 2026. Source link [palantir.com]

Flock Safety, Founders Fund, accessed February 2026. Source link [foundersfund.com]

Peter Thiel Donor Lookup, Open Secrets, accessed February 2026. Source link [opensecrets.org]

Denver ALPR Flock Data, Denver Police Department, accessed February 2026. Source link [box.com]

Profile: Peter Thiel, Forbes, accessed February 2026. Source link [forbes.com]

Type of Story: Fact-Check

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