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In-Q-Tel
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| Type | Privately held company |
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| Genre | Technology research, Venture capital |
| Founded | 29 September 1999 |
| Founder | Norm Augustine[1] |
| Headquarters | Arlington, VA[2] |
| Key people | Gilman Louie, CEO, Various, Board of Trustees[3] |
| Products | Investments |
| Revenue | Not-for-profit corporation |
| Website | http://www.in-q-tel.com/ |
In-Q-Tel of Arlington, Virginia, United States is a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability.[4] Originally named Peleus and known as In-Q-It, In-Q-Tel was launched in 1999 under the direction of Gilman Louie.[4] In-Q-Tel’s mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests. Working from an evolving strategic blueprint defining the Intelligence Community's critical technology needs, In-Q-Tel engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA, DIA, NGA, and the larger Intelligence Community. In-Q-Tel concentrates on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure & materials sciences.
In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google Inc., worth over $2.2 million, on Nov 15, 2005[5]. The stocks were a result of Google’s acquisition of Keyhole, the CIA funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth.
As of August 2006, In-Q-Tel had reviewed more than 5800 business plans, invested some $150 million in more than 90 companies, and delivered more than 130 technology solutions to the intelligence community.[4][6]
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Of those companies listed on In-Q-Tel's investment website page,[7] Hoover's company records identifies the following companies as being selected investments of In-Q-Tel:[4]
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People involved at various times with In-Q-Tel:
- Norman R. Augustine
- Amit Yoran
- John Seely Brown
- Michael Crow
- Stephen Friedman
- Paul Kaminsky
- Jeong Kim
- Paul McMahon
- William Perry
- Alex J. Mandl
- Christopher A.R. Darby
- Craig Goss
- Rob Painter – former Director for Technology Assessment; left to become Senior Federal Sales Manager at Google.
The organisation is bound by a Charter agreement with the CIA, which sets out the relationship between the two organizations, and by an annual contract with the CIA. In-Q-Tel is not part of the CIA and is not a government agency.
- ^ A new partnership between the CIA and the private sector
- ^ Careers at In-Q-Tel (address)
- ^ List of the Board of Trustees
- ^ a b c d Hoover's (August 30, 2006) Hoover's Company Records: In-Q-Tel, Inc.
- ^ CIA sells Google shares
- ^ In-Q-Tel website: Investing in our National Security. Obtained August 2006.
- ^ In-Q-Tel website. In-Q-Tel — Investments. Obtained January 8, 2006.
- In-Q-Tel Corporate Site
- White Paper on the In-Q-Tel concept
- Federal Computer Week article about In-Q-Tel
- Government Executive article about In-Q-Tel
- Corporate fact sheet
- Business Executives for National Security: The Report of the Independent Panel on the CIA In-Q-Tel Venture
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