The most powerful investor you never heard of - The CIA's venture capitalism fund called IN-Q-TEL played a key role in funding google, facebook, and many others

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[–]SundogsPlace 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

disgusting, more people should know.

[–]Demiurgent 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In-Q-tel and Bitcoin

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Partial list of their investments: https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/

God damnit they got GitLab, and Microsoft recently got GitHub.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the list. Yeah they've been funders in a lot of huge prominent companies. And I think they don't tell everything on that list either, there's a lot of sleeping giants that are unmentioned

[–]Demiurgent 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Hopefully the CIA will receive GitMo soon.