In-Q-Tel: The CIA's $120m tech fund 💰💼

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CIA has a venture capital arm that funds hundreds of American Tech startups the origin of inqutel the cia's investment division traces back to former agency director George Tennant the goal invest in technologies that will serve U.S national security interests in three main categories software infrastructure and Material Sciences so how much cash is inqutel investing well the firm has at least 120 million in government dollars to deploy every year some of its notable Investments include Google which it's since divested from palantir which was founded by Peter Thiel and databricks which is one of the most valuable private tech companies as of 2016 the company had 325 Investments and kept 100 of them secret according to the Washington Post any U.S entrepreneur working on ways to analyze data better has probably gotten a phone call from nqutel