Matterport has partnered with In-Q-Tel on the development of a government cloud platform that is planned for deployment on the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) to support agencies’ information acquisition and management efforts. The move is aimed at addressing cybersecurity and other regulatory and compliance requirements to provide secure cloud services to federal and civilian […] More

Orbital Insight has raised $20 million in total funds for the development of algorithms that work to analyze satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle-based imagery in order to generate data-driven insights for use in decision making. The Palo Alto, California-based company secured $15 million in a GV-led funding round and another $5 million through a development […] More

In-Q-Tel has invested in MemSQL to develop in-memory distributed database for U.S. government applications. Customers of MemSQL’s database work to combine in-memory row and flash-optimized column stores in order to store and search large volumes of data, IQT said Wednesday. “MemSQL’s unique offering delivers fast data processing to allow organizations instant access to key information, while effectively managing their […] More

Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel has invested in and partnered with Deepgram to help bring the latter's speech recognition technology to the government. 

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Truepic has won first place with its platform designed to address digital forgery of deepfakes at the Identity and Truth Tech discovery event, which helps startups pitch products to intelligence and defense investors.

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GitLab has launched a sign-on automation service to support common access card authentication. The service is made to reduce time spent on logging into GitLab's issue tracker, and help users develop and deliver security-set software at faster rates, the company said Tuesday.

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In-Q-Tel has made a strategic investment in StackRox to help the Mountain View, Calif.-based technology firm further develop a software platform designed to protect containerized applications from cyber threat actors. StackRox said Wednesday its Container Security Platform works to thwart malicious activities and ensure compliance of the container environment with security policies through the integration of […] More

In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has named Focal Systems as the winner of a competition that featured artificial intelligence tools from 12 startup companies. Focal Systems developed and presented a retail automation technology to IC representatives, investors and corporate executives during the “AI Computing at the Edge” pitch event, IQT said Thursday. The winning tool […] More

In-Q-Tel has established a strategic partnership with Red Balloon Security to help the New York City-based cybersecurity firm further develop a security platform for embedded devices. Red Balloon’s Symbiote Defense technology is compatible with firmware stacks, operating systems and hardware and works to provide embedded devices with endpoint security, IQT said Wednesday. Ang Cui, CEO and founder of […] More

Primer has entered a strategic investment agreement with In-Q-Tel as both companies aim to provide artificial intelligence tools to government analysts. In-Q-Tel said Tuesday Primer develops machine learning systems designed to help analysts from government agencies, financial institutions and retail companies address the limits of human comprehension when analyzing large volumes of information. The systems […] More

In-Q-Tel has partnered with Evident.io to help the Pleasanton, California-based technology company further develop a compliance automation and security platform designed to help U.S. intelligence agencies secure their data infrastructure in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments. The company’s Evident Security Platform is an agent-less system that is built on AWS’ application programming interfaces and works to automate security […] More

Anomali and In-Q-Tel have signed a technology development agreement to build cyber analytics offerings for the intelligence sector. IQT said Tuesday it also invested in Anomali through venture funding rounds to help further develop the latter’s Enterprise and ThreatStream threat intelligence platforms. George Hoyem, investment lead for enterprise IT at In-Q-Tel, said Anomali’s framework  “offers the government a way to aggregate and rationalize […] More