'Meet the CIA-backed venture fund (In-Q-Tel) behind Palantir, Anduril—and a spy tool that might be on your phone
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"In-Q-Tel" can't be searched on qresear.ch, so searched for "CIA venture fund" - 4 hits
8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (3)
#4947060 at 2019-01-29 03:48:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6316: [R]enegade? Edition
The CIA venture fund that started Google and Facebook is named for Q (really).
http://billlawrenceonline.com/in-q-tel/
#4939267 at 2019-01-28 16:21:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6306: Money, Wine & Influence Edition
In-Q-Tel Is CIA venture fund
It sits on important Wall Street boards and started Google and Facebook.
The Q in In-Q-Tell is an intentional reference to Q, the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond.
http://billlawrenceonline.com/in-q-tel/
#2848386 at 2018-09-02 19:49:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3600: You're FIRED Edition
>>2847946
List of '''startups funded by CIA's In-q-tel.
Facebook is one of them.'''
https://www.forbes.com/2010/11/19/in-q-tel-CIA-venture-fund-business-washington-CIA.html#6cd3eb436aea
8chan/8kun CBTS Posts (1)
#109827 at 2017-12-16 23:01:42 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #124
On a whim….
We have seen how non-profits and political foundations are fronts for access, influence, laundering money.
What about the government/CIA laundering technology to Silicon Valley via In-Q-Tel?
https://www.iqt.org/
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/08/CIA-skincare-startup/
http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-funded-by-CIA-2016-9/#mindmeld-is-building-voice-recognition-technology-like-sirifor-everything-7–
https://www.forbes.com/2010/11/19/in-q-tel-CIA-venture-fund-business-washington-CIA.html#21fb90106aea
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-CIA-investments-soCIAl-media-mining-looms-large/
http://fortune.com/2016/04/15/CIA-investment-portfolio
search: "https://qresear.ch/?q=CIA+venture+fund"
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Meet the CIA-backed venture fund behind Palantir, Anduril—and a spy tool that might be on your phone
By Erik German
July 29, 2025, 6:00 AM ET
Photo of Steve Bowsher
In-Q-Tel CEOSteve Bowsher at the fund’s Virginia headquarters.
Jared Soares for Fortune
"Imagine you’re the CEO of a small Silicon Valley company that sells a compelling little device. It’s a next-generation communicator, the size of a wad of gum, that fits snugly over the user’s back tooth.
"The “Molar Mic” captures the voice with high fidelity, even in surroundings of extreme noise, and wirelessly transmits audio signals to the wearer by vibrating the nerves of the inner ear. It makes the Airpod-to-iPhone interface look like tin cans on a string, and you can just imagine how valuable it might be to, say, a commando in a firefight.It’s the kind of gadget the tech genius “Q” would hand to James Bond before he goes out on a mission—except that it’s totally real.
"Normally, you’d be thrilled if Fortune called you up with a chance to tell the world about it. But there’s one, huge problem: Because real-life national-security types are your ideal customers for the Molar Mic—indeed, may already be buying it—you’re forbidden from talking about it very much at all.
“I can’t,” Peter Hadrovic, the company’s CEO, tells me. “ I know it seems weird that I’ve got all this publicity here I’m walking away from, but…”
"Hadrovic’s company is called Integrated Tactical Technologies. On its website, the company goes by the acronym “iT2,” an aptly opaque choice for a business that’s the opposite of public-facing.
"There’s a fraught pause. Hadrovic looks off into the low middle distance. He’s 6-foot-9 and still built like a skinny center, the tall-man position he played on Princeton’s basketball team. “Can’t talk about it,” he says, breaking into an apologetic smile. “I’m not selling it to anybody who I can say I’m selling it to.”
"He’s not saying he’s selling it to real-life James Bonds. But he’s not not saying that, either. And he didn’t turn down the interview outright, because he very much wants to say nice things about a stealthy venture capital fund called In-Q-Tel, whose 2009 investment made building the device possible.
“There’s no way the Molar Mic exists, but for In-Q-Tel,” Hadrovic says.
…"
https://fortune.com/2025/07/29/in-q-tel-cia-venture-capital-palantir-anduril/