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If you look at their portfolio you would see most of these investments are centered around products, namely those that processes or make sense of either large a

If you look at their portfolio you would see most of these investments are centered around products, namely those that processes or make sense of either large amounts or complex data, nothing that includes covert surveillance a la facebook. NSA bad actors withheld, I have a tough time seeing why anyone would consider In-Q-Tel a bad thing. A lot of our current technology (lets not forget the Internet) were born out of government funded projects.

fixxer 13y ago
> I have a tough time seeing why anyone would consider In-Q-Tel a bad thing. Wholeheartedly agree. I take their investment as a stronger sign of success because they are closer to the customer (rather than just being one of those firms that bets on the greater fool theory). Case in point, consider their 10gen play. CIA has been a major player in database design since the beginning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation#Overall_timeline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation#Overall_time...