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25 Cutting Edge Firms Funded By The CIA
Walter Hickey     | Aug. 11, 2012, 12:15 PM

It's no secret the Central Intelligence Agency has an investment firm that funds startups that could have a big impact for the Agency.

If there is a company out there doing intelligence research, it's likely that In-Q-Tel, the CIA's personal investor, either looked them up or made a check out to them.

It's all to ensure that the Agency remains on the forefront of tech. Not long ago, In-Q-Tel invested heavily in a company called Keyhole. Never heard of them? Maybe you know their work, a little project eventually known as Google Earth.

So, want to know what's next for technology? Keep an eye on these 25 companies:

3VR is a video surveillance company that is changing the game

Adaptx creates digital pens that speed up field data collection.

Basis Technology synthesizes the foreign chatter

Biomatrica works with preserving biological materials

Cloudera helps organizations do large-scale data storage

DSSP makes safe rockets that are controlled by electricity

FireEye is one of the most advanced cybersecurity firms out there

Gainspan makes WiFi sensors that can run for years on a AA battery

GATR technologies makes inflatable satellite antennae

The Ember corporation makes low-power wireless products

Infinite Power Solutions makes flexible, thin-film batteries

Infinite Z makes virtual-holographic simulation a reality

Looxcie makes hands free wearable video cameras.

MiserWare makes intelligent power management software

MotionDSP offers "unrivaled" video enhancement tech

Oculis Labs tackles the hacking liability that really matters

Palantir is a Peter Thiel company that is changing the game of intelligence

Perceptive Pixel makes advanced multi-touch displays, like the one on CNN

Recorded Future is a temporal analysis program

Seventh Sense is developing health monitoring products that interface with human skin

Sonitus Medical makes a hearing system that transmits sound imperceptibly through the mouth

Spotter RF makes super-powerful radars in a handheld form

Visible Technologies extracts business solutions from social media chatter

Walleye makes handheld devices that can see into and through solid objects

And that is only from their public portfolio!

the details of this list, here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/25-cutting-edge-companies-funded-by-the-central-intelligence-agency-2012-8?op=1

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Startups Backed By The CIA
Kashmir Hill, 11.22.10, 06:00 AM EST
The spy agency has a venture capital arm that is funding an array of companies developing bleeding-edge technologies.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/19/in-q-tel-cia-venture-fund-business-washington-cia.html

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In-Q-Tel: The CIA's Tax-Funded Player In Silicon Valley
09:43 am July 16, 2012
by STEVE HENN

audio and more here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/07/16/156839153/in-q-tel-the-cias-tax-funded-player-in-silicon-valley

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CIA's In-Q-Tel funds FireEye anti-botnet security firm
November 18, 2009 9:11 AM
Dean Takahashi

The CIA’s In-Q-Tel investment arm took a stake today in FireEye, which is creating an anti-malware platform for enterprises.

Milpitas, Calif.-based FireEye is working on a platform that can fight off “botnets,” which are fleets of zombie computers that have been taken over by criminal hacker rings. The technology being developed can support the “missions of the U.S. intelligence community.”

more here:
http://venturebeat.com/2009/11/18/cias-in-q-tel-funds-fireeye-anti-botnet-security-firm/

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