Parler Technologies Inc

Parler Technologies Inc. is a privately held American technology company founded in 2018. Launched as a social media platform, it has gone through several ownership changes and relaunches. After being founded in Henderson, Nevada, its parent company was later based in Nashville, Tennessee. In April 2023, Parler was acquired by the digital media company Starboard and temporarily shut down. A new Texas-based ownership group acquired the company in December 2023, appointing Ryan Rhodes as CEO and relaunching the service in 2024. The company's size has fluctuated significantly through these changes; verifiable current employee and revenue figures are not available.

Parler operates a social networking service and microblogging platform positioned as a "free speech" focused alternative to mainstream platforms like Twitter. Users can publish posts (called "parleys") of up to 1,000 characters, follow other users, and engage in comment threads. The platform gained significant popularity in 2020 among conservatives and users who had been banned from other social networks. After being removed from the Apple, Google, and Amazon app and web hosting stores in January 2021 over its content moderation policies, the service was later reinstated. More recent plans have described a broader ecosystem beyond social media, to include streaming, e-commerce, and cloud infrastructure services.

Based on its litigation history, Parler is an operating company defending against patent assertions. It has been named as a defendant in one tracked patent case and has not been a plaintiff. This pattern is typical of a technology company being targeted by a patent assertion entity. The single lawsuit against it was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, a common venue for patent infringement litigation.

The company's only tracked litigation is a 2026 case, Authentixx LLC v. Parler Technologies Inc. The plaintiff, Authentixx LLC, is a non-practicing entity (NPE) that has filed dozens of similar infringement lawsuits against a wide variety of companies since 2023. The lawsuits from Authentixx typically assert a single patent broadly related to webpage authentication. Parler's involvement in this suit appears to be part of a large, ongoing litigation campaign by the NPE plaintiff.