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Don’t Compete — Leap: A Vision for American Battery Leadership

In July, a delegation of eight venture capitalists visited CATL’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Ningde, China. What they witnessed was staggering: twelve fully automated battery cell production lines operating in flawless parallel.

IQT Quarterly Recap – Summer 2025

The leaves are turning amber at IQT’s headquarters and fall is officially in the air, which means it’s time to reflect on IQT’s summer quarter. From new investments and technical insights to milestone events, we’ve rounded up everything you need to know from the past few months. Catch up on all the highlights below.

DIBS: A New Framework for National Security Innovation

The global security environment is entering a new era — one defined not just by the sophistication of military systems, but by the speed, scale, and resilience with which they can be deployed. At IQT, we believe the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) must evolve. And we propose “DIBS” as the solution: Design, Iterate, Build, and Source.

Atoms for Industry: The Case for Nuclear Innovation

Energy systems are a foundational enabler in the Strategic Industrialization stack, so it’s only natural to start by diving deeper into an energy technology with tremendous momentum in the venture ecosystem: nuclear.

IQT Explains: The Importance of an Agile Arsenal, Part 2

Welcome to The IQT Podcast. This is part 2 of the discussion with Clayton Williams of IQT's London office, Lorenz Meier, co-founder and CEO of Auterion, and Rob Rainhart, Auterion’s Chief Operating Officer.

IQT Explains: The Importance of an Agile Arsenal, Part 1

Welcome to The IQT Podcast. In this episode, Clayton Williams of IQT's London office speaks with Lorenz Meier, co-founder and CEO of Auterion, and Rob Rainhart, Auterion’s Chief Operating Officer. They explore the remarkable evolution of autonomous systems and drone technology — an area that’s rapidly reshaping the future of defense.
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StackRox Announces Strategic Investment and Technology Development Agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT)

Assessment of electrical and infrastructure recovery in Puerto Rico following hurricane Maria using a multisource time series of satellite imagery

This paper presents the Urban Development Index and CometTS tools to analyze Puerto Rico's post-Hurricane Maria recovery, highlighting power and infrastructure restoration using various satellite data.

SpaceNet: A Remote Sensing Dataset and Challenge Series

Discusses SpaceNet's efforts to improve foundational mapping using satellite imagery and machine learning, highlighting public competitions for building and road extraction.

Focal Systems Selected as Most Innovative AI Startup at In-Q-Tel and Silicon Valley Bank Pitch Event

You Only Look Twice: Rapid Multi-Scale Object Detection In Satellite Imagery

Presents YOLT, a pipeline for rapid detection of small objects in large satellite images, achieving high accuracy and handling varying scales with minimal training data.

DeepGlobe 2018: A Challenge to Parse the Earth through Satellite Images

This paper introduces the DeepGlobe 2018 Challenge, featuring three competitions on satellite image segmentation, detection, and classification to bridge computer vision and remote sensing research.

Can We Learn a System's Optimal Behavior?

Explores reinforcement learning (RL), a subfield of ML emerging from academia that allows a system to make decisions without explicit programming.

Can We Learn a System's Optimal Behavior?

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Explores the frameworks of a Reinforcement Learning system and its applications, including cybersecurity, medicine, and autonomous vehicles.

SpaceNet Team Earns the 2018 USGIF Industry Achievement Award

Red Balloon Security Announces Strategic Partnership with In-Q-Tel

Social Bots: The Emerging Social AI Market

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Explores mobile messaging platforms and social networking services combined with recent advancements in natural language understanding and processing (NLU/P).

Social Bots: The Emerging Social AI Market

A discussion about the proliferation and growth of social bots, agents that communicate autonomously on social media, often with the task of influencing the course of discussion and/or the opinions of its readers.

Interactive Data Visualization for Public Health Applications: An Evaluation of Plotly's Capabilities

Explores how non-coders in public health can leverage IT tools to create advanced data visualizations during infectious disease outbreaks.

DataRobot Announces Strategic Partnership with In-Q-Tel

GEMstone 2.0: Secure Interrogation of Genomic Databases

Discusses the limitations, opportunities, and capabilities of secure computation techniques applied to DNA sequence comparisons.
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