In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in companies to keep the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability.[2] The name "In-Q-Tel" is an intentional reference to Q, the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond.[5]
Company type
Technology research, Government (taxpayer) funded Venture capital firm
Peleus
September 29, 1999 (1999-09-29) (as Peleus)
Steve Bowsher (President and CEO)[4]
Investment in information technology supporting U.S. intelligence capability
Governance[edit]
In-Q-Tel is a Virginia-registered corporation,[13] legally independent of the CIA or any other government agency. The corporation is bound by its Charter agreement and annual contract with the CIA, which set out the relationship between the two organizations. In-Q-Tel's mission (to support the Intelligence Community's technical needs) is promoted by the In-Q-Tel Interface Center (QIC), an office within the CIA that facilitates communication and relationships between In-Q-Tel and government intelligence organizations.[14] While In-Q-Tel is a nonprofit corporation, it differs from IARPA and other models in that its employees and trustees can profit from its investments. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that in 2016, nearly half of In-Q-Tel's trustees had a financial connection with a company the corporation had funded.[7]
In-Q-Tel's current president and CEO is Steve Bowsher.
Original members of the board include Lee A. Ault, III, Norman R. Augustine, John Seely Brown, Stephen Friedman, Paul G. Kaminski, Jeong H. Kim, Alex J. Mandl, John N. McMahon, and William J. Perry.[15]
The chairman of the board is Michael M. Crow.[16]
– Distributed, in-memory, SQL database management system for real-time analytics
MemSQL
– Geospatial visualization application (Acquired by Google in 2004 and would go on to become Google Earth in 2005)
Keyhole, Inc
Boundless Spatial – geospatial software - acquired by
Planet Labs
– cloud-based content collaboration software
Huddle
Oculis Labs – visual cyber security solutions
– games FPS training simulation
Destineer
GeoIQ FortiusOne – visualization on maps
– virtual worlds for training
Forterra
Quantum4D – visualization technology
– real-time visual analysis
Visual Sciences
– visualization data analytics
Spotfire
Algorithmic — Infrastructure for deploying and scaling AI/ML models
– data integration, search and discovery, knowledge management, and secure collaboration[19]
Palantir Technologies
PiXlogic – visual search
Agent Logic – event detection and response software – Webspector webpage change software
Zaplet – email
Authentica – secure messaging and secure document sharing
Corporation – desktop virtualization
Teradici
– Wifi & VPN
Connectify
SafeWeb PrivacyMatrix – browsing (closed in Nov. 2001)
[7]
Visible Technologies – social media monitoring
Silver Tail Systems – website fraud prevention
– crowdsourcing websites
InnoCentive
Fetch Technologies – Internet Data Management -bots & RSS
OrionMagic – cms software
SRA
– automatic language translation
Language Weaver
– translation services
Lingotek
Cassatt – desktop software
FMS – analysis, visualization, and knowledgebase to the United States Intelligence Community
Initiate Systems – real-time multiple database software
Geosemble – unstructured data analytics and geospatial software - acquired by
TerraGo
NovoDynamics – Arabic character recognition
Adapx – Microsoft Office & GIS
– Synthesys v3.0 – review facts and associations at a glance
Digital Reasoning
– Phone speech analytics software
CallMiner
Carnegie Speech – speech recognition
AzTE] PRISM – handwriting recognition
A4Vision – 3D facial imaging
SRD – identity resolution software
Corp – network infrastructure software
Inktomi
Mohomine mohoClassifier – organises mass data
[7]
Stratify – organizes mass data
[7]
– search data repositories
Endeca
– search engine
Inxight
RetrievalWare – search engine
Convera
– search engine
MetaCarta
– search engine
Attensity
– big data analytics and visualization
Platfora
Intelliseek – search engine
[7]
– malware protection
FireEye
ReversingLabs – malware detection and analysis
– Open Data Solutions for Government Innovation
Socrata
Interset – Security Analytics/User Behavior Analytics
[21]
Nozomi Networks – OT and IoT security and visibility
[22]
D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere) – Apache Mesos and Kubernetes consulting firm
Looking Glass Factory - Holography
[24]
HEO - Space Imagery
[25]
Official website
from the CIA's website
White Paper on the In-Q-Tel concept
from Business Executives for National Security (bens.org)
The Report of the Independent Panel on the CIA In-Q-Tel Venture
Press releases
Lerner, Josh, G. Felda Hardymon, Kevin Book, and Ann Leamon. "In-Q-Tel." Harvard Business School Case 804-146, February 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
(September 5, 2012).