Mark Elliot

In November 2014 Palantir Technologies filed a patent application for a “History preserving data pipeline system and method,” naming him among its 11 inventors; the patent was granted in January 2016.⁠[1]

With Benjamin DuffieldBen DuffieldBen Duffield (Benjamin Duffield) is a co-founder of the industrial artificial intelligence company Lumaril. He was one of the creators of Palantir Foundry and, as a Palantir Technologies inventor, has been granted about 30 U.S. patents, many on time-series data.Open the full entry and Adam Borochoff he co-invented a Palantir patent on an interactive interface for data analysis and query processing, with priority from December 2014.⁠[2]

He is the first-listed inventor on Palantir’s “Low-latency database system” patent, which describes a database with decoupled compute and storage layers; it claims priority from August 2020 and was granted in January 2023.⁠[3]

In 2025 he co-founded Lumaril with Ben Duffield; both were creators of Palantir Foundry.⁠[4]

Lumaril builds an AI platform for industrial automation; Lux CapitalLux CapitalLux Capital is a U.S. venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Peter Hébert, Josh Wolfe and Robert Paull, with offices in New York and Silicon Valley. Focused on emerging science and technology, the firm backs companies in fields including life sciences, artificial intelligence, robotics, manufacturing, aerospace and defense through fund investments and by helping to found companies.Open the full entry invested in the company in 2025.⁠[5]

In August 2026 the company raised a $66 million Series A at a $400 million valuation, announced in October.⁠[4]