Palantir alum and founder
Daniel Bardenstein
Co-founder and CEO at Manifest
Co-founder and CEO of Manifest since November 2025. He built AI cybersecurity products at Palantir.
Bardenstein led AI-enabled cybersecurity products at Palantir and Exabeam. He was cybersecurity lead for Operation Warp Speed, ran Hack the Pentagon, and was chief of technology strategy at CISA. He co-founded Manifest as CTO and became CEO on November 1, 2025.
At Palantir
- Cybersecurity product lead
- 2013 to 2016
Career
- Earlier: Palantir, cybersecurity products
- Earlier: Defense Digital Service and CISA
- 2022-2025: Manifest, co-founder and CTO
- 2025-now: Manifest, CEO