In-Q-Tel: Inside the CIA's Secret Strategy to Fund Tech Startups

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small team, secretive office, their first investor. Not Sequoia, not Andre Horowitz. [music] It was in QEL, the CIA's very own venture capital firm. Yes, the CIA has a VC arm. And no, you're not supposed to know that.

The goal? Build a platform that could do [music] what no human analyst ever could. Spot threats hiding in plain sight. Blend messy [music] siloed government data, passport logs, drone footage, field reports into one