In-Q-Tel
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In-Q-Tel is the venture capital arm of the American Central Intelligence Agency.
In-Q-Tel is a private, independent, not-for-profit venture group servicing the CIA and the Intelligence Community. Launched in 1999, In-Q-Tel’s mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests.
About In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel is a private, independent, not-for-profit venture group established by the CIA. Launched in 1999, our mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests. Working from an evolving strategic blueprint defining the Intelligence Community's critical technology needs, we engage with entrepreneurs, established companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that pay out in superior intelligence capabilities for the CIA, DIA, FBI, NGA, and the larger Intelligence Community (IC). In-Q-Tel concentrates on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure and physical and biological materials. To date, In-Q-Tel has engaged with nearly 90 companies and delivered more than 100 technology solutions to the IC.
Amit Yoran, President & Chief Executive Officer
As In-Q-Tel’s new CEO, Yoran will continue the company’s legacy of matching emerging technology tools to vital national security demands, using his extensive background in cyber security developing technical products and services in the private sector and expertise in the government.
A successful entrepreneur, investor, technology expert and former government executive committed to national security, Yoran joins
In-Q-Tel after most recently advising technology companies on market strategy.
Yoran was the former Director of the National Cyber Security Division at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he was responsible for information sharing and managing global initiatives to thwart computer network attacks. He was appointed to that post on Sept. 15, 2003 by President George W. Bush.
Yoran co-founded and managed Riptech, Inc. a venture-backed network security firm acquired by Symantec Corporation in 2002. At Symantec, Yoran served as Vice President of Worldwide Managed Security Services and directed security infrastructures in 40 different countries.
Early in his career at the Department of Defense, he was the Director of the Vulnerability Assessment and Assistance Program for the U.S. Department of Defense Computer Emergency Response Team (DoD/CERT).
Amit Yoran serves on several corporate boards, including Trust Digital, Guardium, and Guidance Software and on advisory boards, including the FBI InfraGard Advisory Board, the Department of Homeland Security – SRI Cyber R&D Center Advisory Board, IT Governance Institute Advisory Panel and the VeriSign Public Advisory Group. He holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an M.S. from George Washington University.