Map 8.a.1 - In-Q-Tel Relational Map

This is the Relational Map for the Investor In-Q-Tel. In-Q-Tel is a private not for profit investing firm that acts as an extension of the CIA and the greater US Intelligence Community to identify, acquire, and deploy cutting edge technologies. In-Q-Tel has very few occasions where it has more than one common investment with another investor, and zero occasions where it has more than two investments in common. Additionally, there seem to no cases where there is personnel interlock between companies in terms of Board or Management Team Members.

If you are seeking to develop secret technologies quietly, it would make sense to avoid collaboration with any other firm in particular on more than a couple of occasions, and also to avoid increasing the importance of any given individual by empowering them in more than one instance of investment. Whereas many investors may be seeking a certain amount of clustering in their networks, In-Q-Tel is probably trying to avoid it.