CIA Investments Update - 08.02.2014

I sent out an email a while back: "SOURCED: cia funded companies - 08.15.2012"
This is an update.

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Top technologies the CIA thinks are hot



Through its investment firm called In-Q-Tel, the CIA funds companies, mostly start-ups, to push forward technologies  deemed useful to  government intelligence agencies.
By Ellen Mesmmer, Network World, July 30, 2014

Through its investment firm called In-Q-Tel, the CIA funds companies, mostly start-ups, to push forward technologies  deemed useful to  government intelligence agencies. Here are the latest picks to get undisclosed amounts of IQT money; and for last year’s summary of IQT picks,

check here ---> http://www.networkworld.com/article/2357893/data-center/104309-The-top-technologies-the-CIA-thinks-are-hot.html

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Before we check out this list, let's take a look at In-Q-Tel:

In-Q-Tel

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, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability.[4]

History

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. Originally associated with[clarification needed] the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology, In-Q-Tel now engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA, DIA, NGA, and the wider intelligence community. In-Q-Tel concentrates on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure and materials sciences.

Former CIA director George Tenet says,

    We [the CIA] decided to use our limited dollars to leverage technology developed elsewhere. In 1999 we chartered ... In-Q-Tel. ... While we pay the bills, In-Q-Tel is independent of CIA. CIA identifies pressing problems, and In-Q-Tel provides the technology to address them. The In-Q-Tel alliance has put the Agency back at the leading edge of technology ... This ... collaboration ... enabled CIA to take advantage of the technology that Las Vegas uses to identify corrupt card players and apply it to link analysis for terrorists [cf. the parallel data-mining effort by the SOCOM-DIA operation Able Danger ], and to adapt the technology that online booksellers use and convert it to scour millions of pages of documents looking for unexpected results.[5]

In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.[6] 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,[dated info] In-Q-Tel had reviewed more than 5,800 business plans, invested some $150 million in more than 90 companies, and delivered more than 130 technology solutions to the intelligence community.[4][7] In 2005 it was said to be funded with about $37 million a year from the CIA.[8][dated info]

Former board members include Norman Augustine, William Perry, Anita K. Jones and Gilman Louie.

Investments:

Many companies listed on In-Q-Tel's investment website page[9] are secret. In-Q-Tel functions partially in public; however, what products it has and how they are used is strictly secret.[8] According to the Washington Post, "virtually any U.S. entrepreneur, inventor or research scientist working on ways to analyze data has probably received a phone call from In-Q-Tel or at least been Googled by its staff of technology-watchers."[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Investments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

June 2001 In-Q-Tel Board Members:

Lee A. Ault, III, Former Chairman and CEO, Telecredit, Inc. (Chairman)
http://www.nndb.com/people/521/000170011/

Norman R. Augustine, Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_R._Augustine

John Seely Brown, Former Director, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seely_Brown

Michael Crow, Executive Vice Provost and Professor of Science and Technology Policy, Columbia University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_M._Crow

Stephen Friedman, Senior Principal, MMC Capital Inc.; Retired Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Friedman_%28PFIAB%29

Paul G. Kaminski, Chairman and CEO, Technovation, Inc.; Senior Partner, Global Technology Partners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G._Kaminski

Jeong Kim, President, Optical Networking Group, Lucent Technologies, Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeong_H._Kim

Alex Mandl, ASM Investments, LLC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_J._Mandl

John N. McMahon, Former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence; Former President and CEO, Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._McMahon

Dr. William J. Perry, Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Perry

more here:
https://www.iqt.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/BENS-Report.pdf

Dr. Anita K. Jones --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_K._Jones
2010:
"Currently a member of the Board of Directors of Science Applications International Corporation and ATS Corporation and a trustee of In-Q-Tel, Professor Jones was a founder and vice president of Tartan Laboratories, a director of BBN Technologies, a trustee of MITRE Corporation, and a member of the provost’s advisory board for MIT Lincoln Laboratories."
http://www.nae.edu/55347.aspx

Gilman Louie --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilman_Louie
"Gilman Louie is a Partner. He is the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. intelligence community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies."
http://www.alsop-louie.com/team/gilman-louie/

read more on In-Q-Tel here:
https://www.iqt.org/about-iqt/

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The updated list:

Apigee
http://apigee.com/about/

GoalZero
http://www.goalzero.com/

HyTrust
www.hytrust.com/

Narrative Science
http://www.narrativescience.com/

NerVve Technologies
http://www.nervvetechnologies.com/about/

OpenGeo (now Boundless)
http://boundlessgeo.com/press-release/opengeo-now-boundless/

Paxata
http://www.paxata.com/

Protonex
http://www.protonex.com/

Pure Storage
http://www.purestorage.com/

RedOwl Analytics
http://redowlanalytics.com/

Socrata
http://www.socrata.com/

Weather Analytics
http://www.weatheranalytics.com/wa/

Vorbeck Materials Corp.
http://www.vorbeck.com/

list found here:
http://www.itworld.com/slideshow/160604/top-technologies-cia-thinks-are-hot-429338