In-Q-Tel

Type

Non-Profit

Status

Active

Location

Arlington, United States

Total investments

290

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

233

Rounds per year

11.60

Lead investments

32

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

80

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningEnterprise SoftwareBig DataManufacturingCyber SecuritySecurity

Summary

In 1999 was created In-Q-Tel, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Arlington.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this In-Q-Tel performs on 5 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from In-Q-Tel is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the In-Q-Tel, startups are often financed by Greylock Partners, Accel, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ARCH Venture Partners, Accel, Lux Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, GV, Accel.

The overall number of key employees were 12.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Palantir Technologies, Pure Storage, FireEye. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Cyber Security. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
SeedSeries CSeries APre-SeedSeries B Show 1 more
Check size
250K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
290
Lead investments
32
Exits
80
Rounds per year
11.60
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (131)
  • Analytics (67)
  • Information Technology (46)
  • Artificial Intelligence (44)
  • Enterprise Software (41)
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Investments by region
  • United States (238)
  • United Kingdom (14)
  • Australia (13)
  • Canada (13)
  • Switzerland (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
10
Number of Decacorns
12
Number of Minotaurs
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
417M
Group Appearance index
0.63
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.37
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
GreyNoise Intelligence 29 Jun 2021 Internet, Information Technology, Cyber Security Seed United States, District of Columbia, Washington
Kry10 10 Nov 2023 Security, Internet of Things Seed 4M United States, Washington, Bellevue
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