In-Q-Tel
| In-Q-Tel | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Non-profit organization |
| founding | 1999 |
| Seat | Arlington , Virginia |
| management | Christopher Darby (CEO) |
| Branch | Investment company ( venture capital ) |
| Website | www.iqt.org |
In-Q-Tel is a US non-profit company headquartered in Arlington , Virginia , United States . The company provides venture capital to young information technology companies. The company is fed by the budget of the CIA .
In-Q-Tel was founded in 1999 under the name Peleus . The company's goal is to identify new and relevant technologies at an early stage and to make them usable for the national security of the United States. In-Q-Tel invested 37 million US dollars per year for this in the period around 2005.
The company's dozen of holdings include or have included political forecasting firm Recorded Future and cloud firm HyTrust . In-Q-Tel also participated in Palantir Technologies .
The Washington Post estimates that virtually every US entrepreneur, investor, or researcher working on ways to analyze data has probably received a phone call from In-Q-Tel or at least been Googled.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Terence O'Hara: In-Q-Tel, CIA's Venture Arm, Invests in Secrets Washington Post, August 15, 2005
- ↑ Florian Zimmer-Amrhein: Software predicts escalation in western Ukraine faz.net, April 27, 2014
- ↑ In-Q-Tel stakes HyTrust to lock down intelligence clouds gigaom.com, July 14, 2013
- ^ Terence O'Hara: Terence O'Hara - In-Q-Tel, CIA's Venture Arm, Invests in Secrets . August 15, 2005, ISSN 0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed April 11, 2018]).