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by basementcat 707 days ago
Several of the investment rounds included participation from In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm.
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> Several of the investment rounds included participation from In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm

Not a significant source of capital. NASA COTS was Hawthorne’s public-money shot in the arm.

Yes and it saved/will have saved them literally billions over the following 20 years.