Guidelines
If you have a cutting-edge technology, a top-flight team, and you’re working in one of our primary areas of focus, we want to hear from you.
Our Process
Step 1: Submit your information
In-Q-Tel reviews each and every proposal. To help ensure our ability to effectively review your proposal, we ask that you submit an accurate and complete package of materials. This includes the following set of documents:
- business plan
- technology whitepaper(s)
- list of corporate officers, directors, and key members of the technical team (this is only required if the information is not already included in your business plan)
Step 2: Evaluation
While we attempt to evaluate every proposal quickly, we also are intensely thorough. Once we receive a complete proposal, we do a preliminary review and if we believe your technology could meet our needs, we assign analysts from our business and technical teams to review your company and assess your technology, including its potential to address challenges in the intelligence community, and we may review the proposal with the CIA and other agencies that we think might be interested.
This process takes time, but you can help by ensuring that your submission includes all of the requested information. If we determine your technology meets our needs, we will request a meeting with your company. To save your time and ours, we take meetings only when our initial assessment reveals a likely match for our interests.
