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VentureBeat
March 3, 2018
Steve Case's VC firm, Revolution, is based in D.C., and so is In-q-Tel, a nonprofit strategic investor that accelerates the development and delivery of advanced technologies to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). But the duality between tech and politicsÃâà...
Inside Defense
March 3, 2018
Lisa Porter, who most recently served as executive vice president and director of In-Q-Tel Labs, has been nominated to be deputy under secretary of defense for research and engineering, according to a White House announcement. Before joining In-Q-Tel Labs, Porter was the president of TeledyneÃâà...
Mergers & Acquisitions
March 1, 2018
... cash and stock. Phantom, launched in Palo Alto, California in 2014, assists businesses to automate their security threat response tasks that are usually carried out by security personnel. The target previously received venture funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Foundation Capital, and In-Q-TelÃâà...
CNBC
February 23, 2018
... investment bank and potentially include sovereign wealth funds and large private equity firms. Brownell has also talked with SoftBank's massive Vision Fund, calling it the type of investor that he would like to see participate. Existing investors include In-Q-Tel, the venture group that invests on behalf of theÃâà...
Datanami
February 13, 2018
It's no secret that America's spies are collecting massive amounts of data. And now that In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the nation's intelligence agencies, has taken a stake in hyperparameter optimization startup SigOpt, they'll have one more tool for building accurate machine learning models based onÃâà...
VentureBeat
February 12, 2018
In-Q-Tel, an investment firm that connects tech companies with the U.S. Intelligence community, has taken an undisclosed stake in SigOpt, a San Francisco-based AI startup. The move will provide the startup with additional capital and help it reach an audience of secretive AI practitioners at spy agencies.
Silicon Valley Business Journal
February 5, 2018
After 10 years of investing at In-Q-Tel — the secretive venture investor for U.S. intelligence agencies — T.J. Rylander last year joined Siemens' next47 investment team in Palo Alto. In this TechFlash Q&A, Rylander talks about why he left and the types of businesses he is scouting now for SiemensÃâà...
TechCrunch
December 31, 1999
Part of a new breed of tools that use network analysis and machine learning to respond to potential security breaches, Phantom Cyber had previously raised $22.7 million in funding from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Foundation Capital, the In-Q-Tel (the investment group affiliatedÃâà...
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