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IQT
Venture capital · Arlington, VA, United States · North America
IQT is an independent, not-for-profit strategic investment firm set up in 1999 by the CIA. It helps startups adapt their technologies for government mission needs while working with U.S. government partners as well as the United Kingdom and Australia.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsnational securityfrontier techartificial intelligencebiotechnologymicrochipsspace
Your fit with IQT
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Or find every investor that fitsIQT lists 188 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 23 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 30% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (40%), Industrial & Manufacturing (17%) and Healthcare & Biotech (12%). 67% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Collaborative Fund and Founders Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name IQT, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not IQT's whole history. Rounds on record name 21 companies; its own site lists 188. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundIQT does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 25% |
| Series A | 30% |
| Series B | 20% |
| Growth | 25% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 6 | 0 |
| '26 | 15 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 69th | 31 companies |
| Recent activity | 98th | 16 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 60th | 25% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 76th | 10% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 72th | 40% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 93th | 9 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 40% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 17% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 12% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 12% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 3% | 1% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 2% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 9 |
| Collaborative Fund | 8 |
| Founders Fund | 8 |
| Intel Capital | 8 |
| Silent Ventures | 8 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 7 |
| Capital Factory | 7 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 7 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18699%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company21%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare IQT head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with IQT| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Series A | |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Round | |
| 3 Aug 2026 | Series B | |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 27 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 26 May 2026 | Seed |
Round details for IQT
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in IQT's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
188 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6K Inc develops and uses UniMelt technology for advanced materials production | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Acalvio provides cyber deception technology for preemptive cybersecurity | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Aira Technologies provides AI-powered solution suites to support Operators’ operational, energy, and spectral efficiency goals | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Air Company produces synthetic fuels using various energy sources and technologies. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Airfinity provides AI-enabled health analytics and forecasting solutions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Albedo develops and operates satellite systems in very low earth orbit for various applications including imaging, sensing, and communication. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Ambit Inc provides network protocol and tunnel security solutions for organizations | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Andesite develops and provides a human+AI security operations center (SOC) product to empower cybersecurity teams | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Antheia manufactures essential medicines using advanced biosynthesis technologies to produce Key Starting Materials and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Anthro develops and manufactures battery cells and electrolyte solutions for various industries, including consumer, micromobility, defense, and automotive. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Archetype AI develops and provides a physical AI platform for real-world intelligence and operational understanding | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Arctop decodes human emotions and cognitive states from EEG in everyday headphones for apps and AI to respond | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Armada provides ruggedized modular data centers and edge computing hardware and software for deploying GPU infrastructure in remote and demanding environments. | Enterprise SoftwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Array Labs designs, builds, and operates radar satellites and radar sensor systems for Earth observation and elevation mapping. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Atalanta is a mathematical AI company that brings speed and rigor to the design, implementation, and verification of complex systems. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | May 2025Seed | Portfolio page | ||
| Atomic Industries manufactures products using mold making and AI-native operations | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company discovers alternatives to critical minerals and develops new materials through simulation and lab synthesis. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Atomionics develops and uses quantum sensors and AI to improve resource exploration and discovery | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Seed | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- iqt.org
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 31 Oct 2023
- Companies checked
- 188
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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