Was just about to post that!
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In-Q-TelIQT is the non-profit strategic investor that accelerates the development and delivery of cutting-edge technologies to U.S. government agencies that keep our nation safe. Our work bridges the gap between the challenging technology needs of the national security agencies, the rapidly changing innovations of the startup world, and the venture community that funds those startups.
IQT occupies a distinct role at the intersection of all stakeholders - our government customers, the venture capital community, and the startup world. It is our access to and deep understanding of these diverse communities that fuel our ability to make relevant investments.
here is the relevant portion of the old post about in-q-tel
In-Q-Tel Keyhole Google Earth and CIA
https://laboratoryofhiddenalternatives.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/in-q-tel-keyhole-google-earth-and-cia/
EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded company acquired by Google in 2004.
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 equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability.
In-Q-Tel’s mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests. Working from an evolving strategic blueprint defining the Intelligence Community’s critical technology needs, In-Q-Tel engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA, DIA, NGA, and the larger Intelligence Community. In-Q-Tel concentrates on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure and materials sciences.
In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google Inc., worth over $2.2 million, on Nov 15, 2005. 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, 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. In 2005 it was said to be funded with about $37 million a year from the CIA.
Q post #144 What co’s rec large cash injections by Clowns In America?
Now the “answers” posted for post 144 refer only to amazon, but q said “co’s” as in companies not “co” like a single company and q says “details matter” as demonstrated with words and letters dropped, spaces in posts, tweet timestamps etc.
So to answer q’s question:
What co’s rec large cash injections by Clowns In America?
I searched google for “investments from CIA” or “investment from CIA”
You will find several stories about In-q-tel which they call them “The investment arm of the CIA”
You Will Also find a book Titled “In-Q-Tel: A New Partnership
Between the CIA and the Private Sector”
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/intelligence-history/in-q-tel - The origins of the concept that has become In-Q-Tel are traceable to Dr. Ruth David, a former CIA Deputy Director for Science and Technology. She and her Deputy, Joanne Isham, were the first senior Agency officials to understand that the information revolution required the CIA to forge new partnerships with the private sector and design a proposal for radical change. The timing of the proposal was fortuitous. The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), George Tenet, had just launched his Strategic Direction initiative that included technology as one of its areas for review. The study made a direct link between the Agency’s future technology investments and improving its information gathering and analysis capabilities.
By the summer of 1998, the Agency had assembled a few senior Agency staff employees with an entrepreneurial bent and empowered them to take Dr. David’s original concept and flesh it out. Aided by a consulting group and a law firm, they devoted the next four months to making the rounds in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, putting the concept through the wringer. Much of the time was spent listening. Many they met with were often critical of one aspect or another of the concept. But, whether they were venture capitalists, Chief Executive Officers (CEO), Chief Technical Officers (CTO) or congressmen and staffers, they all eagerly immersed themselves in spirited debates that enriched the Agency team and drove the concept in new directions.
You will also find the In-Q-Tel website and their portfolio https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ of over 200 companies focused on Biology, Chemical Detection, Collaboration, Communications, Cyber & Mobile Security, Data Analytics, Data Management, Detection & Analysis, Digital Imagery, Materials & Power, Mission Tools And Optical Technology, Sensor Technology And Video Imaging
I found this particularity interesting.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2803266-Iqtdoc.html - It’s the Guest speakers list at this In-Q-Tel CEO summit from 2016 on page 10:
Robert Work - Deputy Secretary of Defense
Robert Cardillo - Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
And
James B Comey - Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation