Digging on history of other SM platforms and DARPA/clown connections. Found this.

14 cutting edge firms funded by the CIA

http:// www.businessinsider.com/companies-funded-by-cia-2016-9

Cylance: using artificial intelligence to analyze and kill malware well before it becomes a problem.

Orbital Insight: analyzes the millions of satellite images being beamed back to Earth to answer all kinds of interesting questions.

Cyphy built a tethered drone that can monitor an area for days at a time.

BlueLine Grid made a communication platform similar to Slack with security and compliance in mind.

Atlas Wearables created a fitness tracker that actually knows the specific exercise you are performing.

Fuel3d can capture highly-detailed three dimensional imagery of rooms, objects, or people.

MindMeld is building voice recognition technology like Siri — for everything.

SnapDNA has a handheld device that can analyze DNA in minutes.

Sonitus offers a wireless, two-way communications capability hidden inside the mouth.

Palantir sifts through massive data sets to allow a user to track patterns or gain valuable insight from one software package, instead of looking into a bunch of different databases.

BBN Technologies allows troops overseas to quickly translate foreign languages.

Keyhole was a tiny 3d mapping startup with technology so useful it is still on most smartphones in the world today.

Basis Technology can extract critical information from documents written in a foreign language.

Oculis Labs stops people from spying on your computer screen.