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Tara O’Toole, executive vice president and senior fellow at In-Q-Tel, has said that artificial intelligence can help “fundamentally improve” synthetic biology concepts to support U.S. efforts to compete with China, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday.

In-Q-Tel has invested in New York-based software developer nTopology in a move to help bring the latter's digital design and engineering platform to the government sector.

Sayari Labs, a Washington, D.C.-based developer of financial intelligence platforms, has added $2.5M to its round of Series B financing after it secured investments from In-Q-Tel, TFX Capital and MissionOG.

In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has invested in Canberra, Australia-based QuintessenceLabs to help the latter expand its portfolio of quantum cybersecurity offerings.

Data security firm Enveil has raised $10M in a round of Series A financing led by C5 Capital and supported by several investors including Capital One Ventures, Mastercard, 1843 Capital and Bloomberg Beta. Enveil said Tuesday it will use the investment to expand its ZeroReveal product line, build up its global sales team and client support functions and broaden its presence in government and commercial markets.

Brian Schettler, managing director of Boeing’s HorizonX Ventures, told Defense News in an interview posted Thursday that getting venture capital funding for defense companies that are focused on hardware is a challenge and one way to help address that reluctance among investors is looking at the “capitalization piece.”

Industry experts said space startups are engaging more with the U.S. government as they see it as a client and as an investor, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “We saw many firms overtly or less overtly turn towards government as a potential customer," Carissa Christensen, CEO of analyst firm Bryce Space & Technology, said Tuesday at a Washington Space Business Roundtable event.

Vannebar Labs plans to introduce technology platforms that leverage artificial intelligence, natural language processing and machine learning to help defense and intelligence agencies address national security issues, TechCrunch reported Wednesday.

Autonomous robot systems developer Exyn Technologies has secured $16M in a round of Series A financing led by Centricus and backed by In-Q-Tel, Yamaha Motors Ventures, Corecam Family Office, IP Group and Red and Blue Ventures.

Nick Weir, a data scientist at In-Q-Tel and challenge manager for SpaceNet project, told Federal News Network in an interview published Monday how IQT’s CosmiQ Works laboratory leverages artificial intelligence through the SpaceNet initiative.

In-Q-Tel has invested in and partnered with Outlier to introduce the latter’s artificial intelligence-based data analytics platform to the intelligence and defense sectors.

In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community's venture capital arm, and Sysdig have entered into a strategic partnership to field a new platform designed to provide government agencies control and insight as they adopt multicloud, containers, Kubernetes and other modern information technology platforms.

In-Q-Tel and Tamr have formed a strategic partnership that seeks to help government agencies address data unification challenges with the use of a machine learning-based technology. IQT said Wednesday it will help the company further develop and field its patented enterprise software platform Tamr Unify, which uses machine learning and human expertise to unify data across multiple silos to generate insights.

Chris Darby, president and CEO of In-Q-Tel, said the “democratization” of satellites and other technologies had closed the gap between the U.S. and other countries in terms of capabilities, CBS News reported Wednesday.

Silicon Valley startup i-Blades secured an investment from In-Q-Tel as both companies aim to the accelerate the development of a smartphone technology offering for U.S. intelligence and defense agencies.