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The point of In-Q-Tel is not to make money, or even traditional ROI. It's to bring technologies to the intelligence market that might not otherwise exist. They
by showerst 13y ago
The point of In-Q-Tel is not to make money, or even traditional ROI. It's to bring technologies to the intelligence market that might not otherwise exist.
They're actually not for profit. https://www.iqt.org/about-iqt/ https://www.iqt.org/about-iqt/ . It's certainly an interesting approach to the problem.
- eli 13y agoIn fact, if I remember correctly they are literally not profitable -- the fund has lost money every year since its inception. In some ways they're the ideal investor. EDIT: decent article on In-Q-Tel from NPR last year that explains that they originally intended to make money, but as of last year they hadn't (and weren't on track to do so)http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/07/16/156839153/in-q-tel-the-cias-tax-funded-player-in-silicon-valley http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/07/16/156839...