In-Q-Tel’s Focus — Data, Data and More Data
Now, the way the venture capital business works is that the venture capitalist provides capital to a startup business that is in desperate need of that cash.
There are great, revolutionary ideas out there that just need some cash to get them rolling.
These early-stage investments put the venture capitalist in on the ground floor of operations with an extremely large amount of influence over the decisions made at the firm that the venture capitalist has invested in.
What I’m trying to say is that the venture capitalist (in this case, the CIA) is going to be able to steer the future of these companies, how their technologies evolve and what they can be used for.
With that in mind, you should be interested to know that one of In-Q-Tel’s early investments was in a company called Keyhole EarthViewer. In 2004, Keyhole EarthViewer was acquired by another little startup that you may have heard of — Google.
At Google, the Keyhole EarthViewer technology that was born from CIA/In-Q-Tel funding was renamed Google Earth. Isn’t it good to know that the CIA and Google are on such close terms?
Since it was founded, In-Q-Tel has made at least 167 investments that we are aware of.2 In-Q-Tel doesn’t disclose everything it invests in, but of the investments that have been disclosed, the focus of a large number of them has been data.
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