Partner & Co-Founder
Doug Philippone is Partner and Co-Founder of Snowpoint Ventures. He brings rare operator experience and technology leadership to identify and scale the capabilities that strengthen societal resilience across the free world.
As Head of Global Defense at Palantir from 2008 to 2024 (now Senior Advisor), he founded and scaled the defense business to more than 19 allied countries. He led the full software platform, driving the teams that invented and fielded foundational technologies—including Nexus Peering—and deployed them in the most demanding operational environments on earth.
Before Palantir, Doug served 18 years in the U.S. Army. A Ranger and inductee of the Army Ranger Hall of Fame, he completed six combat deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, commanding multiple Joint Special Operations Command outstations. In 2005 he led the campaign along the Syrian border to interdict foreign fighters flowing into Baghdad. He was awarded three Bronze Stars (two with Valor) and the Joint Commendation Medal with Valor. He was medically retired in 2008.
Doug holds a B.S. in Mathematics from West Point (Class of 1997), where he served as class president, a Master’s in Terrorism Operations and Finance from the Naval Postgraduate School, and studied machine learning at MIT.
This combination of frontline command and scaled technology delivery gives Snowpoint an uncommon ability to back the people and platforms that matter most.
