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Investor profile

In-Q-Tel

Venture Capital · Founded 1999 · Arlington, United States

Website ↗LinkedIn ↗Crunchbase ↗Dealroom ↗

A non-profit strategic investor that accelerates the development and delivery of cutting-edge technologies to U.S. government agencies

268 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $8.0B invested · 351 investments · Investor rank #340 · Last investment 6/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 66% 5y
268
Decacorns ↑ 33% 5y
4
Thoroughbreds ↑ 18% 5y
15
Exits

In-Q-Tel’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from In-Q-Tel’s transaction record.

Palantir
$22B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $310BSecurity
Pure Storage
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $22BSemiconductors
Cloudera
$1.9B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $5.3BSecurity
Tenable
$2.1B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $4.5BSecurity
Magnet Forensics
$900M IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.3BSecurity
Mandiant
$1.0B acquisition · 2013
Entered Series B+Security
Portfolio analysis

Where In-Q-Tel's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 268 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA205
  2. UK17
  3. Australia15
  4. Canada9
  5. Germany6
  6. Japan3
  7. France2
  8. Singapore2
  9. Belgium1
  10. Cuba1
  11. Finland1
  12. Ireland1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software84
  2. Security58
  3. Semiconductors32
  4. Energy27
  5. Health27
  6. Robotics15
  7. Transportation15
  8. Media14
  9. Space12
  10. Telecom11
  11. Fintech8
  12. Education6
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A101
  2. Series B+93
  3. Seed58
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage121
  2. Late Growth80
  3. Early Growth67
Portfolio market map

Inside In-Q-Tel's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 268 tracked.

Databricks
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$188B
Palantir
Security · Centicorn
$310B
Lambda
Hosting · Unicorn
$6.0B
Stoke Space
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.5B
DataRobot
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$6.3B
Cloudera
Security · Unicorn
$5.3B
Sysdig
Security · Unicorn
$1.2B
Stark
Security · Unicorn
$3.5B
Colossal
Health · Decacorn
$10B
Radiant Industries
Energy · Unicorn
$1.8B
Xanadu
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$3.6B
Pure Storage
Semiconductors · Decacorn
$22B
Inertia
Energy · Unicorn
$1.8B
Hermeus
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.0B
SingleStore
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.3B
Infleqtion
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$1.8B
Pragmatic
Semiconductors
$855M
Harbinger
Energy
$640M
Odyssey
Media · Unicorn
$1.4B
Sakana AI
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$2.6B
Rigetti Computing
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$4.3B
Quantifind
Security
$800M
Vast
Space · Unicorn
$1.2B
Tenable
Security · Unicorn
$4.5B
Kela Technologies
Security · Unicorn
$1.2B
Nozomi Networks
Security
$400M
TaxBit
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.3B
Univercells
Health
D2iQ
Hosting
$500M
Primer
Enterprise Software
$550M
Snorkel AI
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.3B
Deepgram
Legal · Unicorn
$1.3B
Domino Data Lab
Enterprise Software
$400M
Armadin
Security
$760M
Twelve Labs
Media
$400M
Quantware
Semiconductors
$669M
LucidWorks
Enterprise Software
$400M
Antheia
Health
$365M
Apigee
Enterprise Software
$625M
HavocAI
Security
$400M
Starcloud
Hosting · Unicorn
$1.1B
Fleet Space
Space
$525M
Advanced Navigation
Robotics · Unicorn
$1.0B
T2 Biosystems
Health
$23M
Twenty
Security · Unicorn
$1.2B
Digital Reasoning
Fintech
$80M
EnCharge AI
Semiconductors
$400M
Firestorm
Security
$328M
Mandiant
Security · Unicorn
$5.4B
Ocient
Enterprise Software
$247M
Big Switch Networks
Telecom
$123M
Atlas Data Storage
Health
$620M
Sonatype
Security
$100M
Paragraf
Semiconductors
$220M
Mitra Chem
Energy
$300M
Sygaldry Technologies
Semiconductors
$420M
Automata
Health
$180M
nTop
Enterprise Software
$200M
Orbital Insight
Energy
$200M
Q-CTRL
Enterprise Software
$236M
Portfolio founders

Where In-Q-Tel's portfolio founders come from.

173 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States113
  2. United Kingdom9
  3. Canada6
  4. Australia5
  5. Japan5
  6. Israel4
  7. Germany3
  8. Singapore3
  9. South Korea3
  10. France2
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University12
  2. University of California, Berkeley12
  3. Harvard University9
  4. University of Michigan9
  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
  6. Cornell University3
  7. Georgia Institute of Technology3
  8. Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
  9. Stony Brook University3
  10. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google11
  2. Stanford University7
  3. Microsoft6
  4. McKinsey & Company5
  5. Generation Orbit4
  6. Intel Corporation4
  7. Meta4
  8. SpaceX | xAI4
  9. Amazon3
  10. Blue Origin3
How In-Q-Tel stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

Bpifrance
Sovereign Wealth Fund · Maisons-Alfort
#92 rank 1,360 companies $167B portfolio
Alumni Ventures
Venture Capital · Manchester
#186 rank 799 companies $201B portfolio
Techstars
Accelerator · New York City
#836 rank 2,279 companies $254B portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,063 companies $1.9T portfolio
Intel Capital
Corporate Venture Fund · Santa Clara
#76 rank 983 companies $1.1T portfolio
Plug and Play
Venture Capital · Sunnyvale
#435 rank 1,539 companies $283B portfolio
HTGF
Venture Capital · Bonn
#673 rank 578 companies $28B portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,918 companies $23T portfolio
Key people

Key people at In-Q-Tel.

Daniel Gwak
Daniel Gwak
CIO
 Katie Gray
Katie Gray
Senior Partner
 Andy Ku
Andy Ku
Partner
 Jon Chait
Jon Chait
Partner
 Jennifer Cuomo
Jennifer Cuomo
Managing Partner
 J.D Englehart
J.D Englehart
Director
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.