Talk:In-Q-Tel

Facebook

Are there any serious reports about Facebook being an In-Q-Tel-Investment? If so, it should be inserted because of it's worldwide influence.

I have a few sources but I consider none of them precise enough, i.e.:

"The third board member of Facebook is Jim Breyer. He is a partner in the venture capital firm Accel Partners, who put $12.7m into Facebook in April 2005. On the board of such US giants as Wal-Mart and Marvel Entertainment, he is also a former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Now these are the people who are really making things happen in America, because they invest in the new young talent, the Zuckerbergs and the like. Facebook's most recent round of funding was led by a company called Greylock Venture Capital, who put in the sum of $27.5m. One of Greylock's senior partners is called Howard Cox, another former chairman of the NVCA, who is also on the board of In-Q-Tel. What's In-Q-Tel? Well, believe it or not (and check out their website), this is the venture-capital wing of the CIA. After 9/11, the US intelligence community became so excited by the possibilities of new technology and the innovations being made in the private sector, that in 1999 they set up their own venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, which "identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions".

The US defence department and the CIA love technology because it makes spying easier. "We need to find new ways to deter new adversaries," defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in 2003. "We need to make the leap into the information age, which is the critical foundation of our transformation efforts." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

-89.244.64.10 (talk) 08:04, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

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Logic Problem

The section including Google and Keyhole needs to be reworded to make any sense. I would do it myself but am not certain of the facts nehind the statement. I can't figure out what it is trying to say. "The stocks were a result of Google’s acquisition of Keyhole, the CIA funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth." The stocks were a result? Can someone who is informed on this issue write something that makes sense to the average reader?66.91.214.29 10:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, it seems to say that the CIA/In-Q-Tel had previously -- at some unspecified time -- sold Keyhole to Google in exchange for 5,636 of Google's shares. Later -- on Nov. 15, 2005 -- In-Q-Tel sold these shares (now worth $2.2 million +).Frank Freeman (talk) 15:19, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Paul McMahon

This article says that Paul McMahon as at some point related to In-Q-Tel but the hot link points me to an article about a cricket player. I may be wrong but I suspect this is a different Paul McMahon. am I right?--Matt D (talk) 06:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Also Stephen Friedman links too a disambig page where there are two potential candidates but neither article gives any hint as too which one has worked with In-Q-Tel.--Matt D (talk) 06:14, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Critical text in "Views" section is unsourced

The two lines asserting critical views about In-Q-Tel are completely bereft of sources or citations. It seems to me that someone should either find some or delete those. Pa28pilot (talk) 21:27, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

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More investments

[1] lists more companies to add to the lists here. -- Beland (talk) 06:06, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

July 2020

Citations in several sources need incorporation. Wikipietime (talk) 12:58, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

To add to article

To add to the infobox: the number of employees. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 23:01, 9 September 2023 (UTC)