Overview
- Palantir filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court accusing former senior engineers Radha Jain and Joanna Cohen of using confidential materials to help build a “copycat” AI platform at Percepta.
- Jain left in November 2024 after working on Palantir’s flagship software, and Cohen resigned in February after leading healthcare-focused AI solutions, according to the complaint.
- The filing alleges one ex-employee sent herself highly confidential healthcare-related documents the day after resigning, including internal demo frameworks and workflow diagrams.
- Percepta was publicly unveiled in early October by General Catalyst, is led by co-founder and CEO Hirsh Jain, and is not named as a defendant; the complaint says nearly half its staff previously worked at Palantir.
- Palantir seeks to enforce a one-year noncompete and two-year non-solicit, says it learned of the pair’s roles only after Percepta exited stealth, and reports no responses yet from the engineers or the startup.