Organizations

In-Q-Tel

1999

The CIA's not-for-profit venture-capital arm (founded 1999) that invests in commercial technology of interest to U.S. intelligence. It was Palantir's first outside investor (~2005) - the seed that turned a rejected Silicon Valley startup into the intelligence community's data-analysis backbone. The clearest institutional bridge between the CIA and the commercial tech sector.

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Connections (4)

confirmedGilman Louie

founding CEO (1999)

Source: In-Q-Tel (Wikipedia)

confirmedPalantir Technologies

the CIA venture arm that was Palantir's first outside investor (~2005)

Source: Forbes, How a Deviant Philosopher Built Palantir, a CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut (2013)

confirmedGlenn Gaffney

served as Executive Vice President

Source: In-Q-Tel / NobleReach biographies

confirmedCentral Intelligence Agency

the CIA's not-for-profit venture-capital arm

Source: Wikipedia: In-Q-Tel

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