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I don’t really feel like spending my Saturday doing some nebulous research project. Can you just tell me. Who are the funders and why is that relevant?
by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
I don’t really feel like spending my Saturday doing some nebulous research project. Can you just tell me. Who are the funders and why is that relevant?
- uLogMicheal 3y agohttps://kotaku.com/the-creators-of-pokemon-go-mapped-the-world-now-theyre-1838974714 https://kotaku.com/the-creators-of-pokemon-go-mapped-the-wor... From the article: The CIA’s venture capital investment firm, In-Q-Tel, took a particular interest in Keyhole. According to a 2003 press release, within two weeks of In-Q-Tel’s investment, Keyhole’s tech was implemented to support Pentagon initiatives in Iraq. In-Q-Tel’s leader at the time was Gilman Louie, a video game industry veteran who’d designed or produced a handful of flight simulators, including the Falcon series. Louie, who currently sits on the board of Niantic and whose venture capital firm is a major investor in the company, has had a decades-long relationship with Hanke, apparently fueled by their shared enthusiasm for mapping and augmented reality. Keyhole also proved seductive to Google, whose cofounder Sergey Brin led the initiative to acquire Keyhole for a reported $35 million in 2004.