CEO of Palantir Technologies

Estimated Value: $735 million

Last Year's Rank / Valuation: N/A

Business:  Analytics platform

Location: Palo Alto, California

CEO: Alexander Carp

Investors: The Founders Fund, Youniversity Ventures, Glynn Capital Management, Ulu Ventures, Jeremy Stoppelman, Ben Ling.

Analysis: Palantir Tech is a high-powered analytics platform focusing mainly on the government and financial sectors (lucky them).  While we have no revenue metrics to speak of, revenue has revenues have at least doubled every year for the last three years. The company raise $90 million in Series D financing this summer at a valuation of $735 million.