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In-Q-Tel

Corporate VC·Arlington, Virginia, USA·~$1B+ in assets; has received over $1.2B in government funding since 2011

In-Q-Tel (IQT) is an independent, not-for-profit strategic investment firm established in 1999 to deliver cutting-edge technology to the CIA and the broader US intelligence community. Backed by government funding, it identifies and invests in early-stage startups whose technologies can address national security challenges. IQT has backed over 800 companies across frontier domains and helped launch firms including Palantir Technologies, Keyhole (later Google Earth), and MongoDB. It operates globally from offices in Arlington, London, Sydney, Munich, and Singapore.

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Artificial IntelligenceCybersecurityBiotechnologySpace SystemsQuantum ComputingAdvanced MaterialsMicroelectronicsSensorsRobotics
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Paragraf

Advanced Materials·Series C

Paragraf is a University of Cambridge spinout founded in 2017 by Simon Thomas (CEO), Professor Sir Colin Humphreys, and Ivor Guiney. The company commercialises graphene and other two-dimensional materials at scale using standard semiconductor fabrication equipment, with a proprietary direct deposition technique that produces device-quality graphene on 8-inch wafers without metal catalysts or transfer processes. Paragraf launched its first product in 2019, a graphene-based Hall-effect sensor offering 30x greater sensitivity than conventional silicon at one-tenth the power. The sensor portfolio has expanded to include molecular sensors for healthcare, agritech, food production, and chemical manufacturing. The company has raised over £140M across four rounds, including a $55M Series C in 2025 led by Mubadala.