The CIA's Venture Capitalist Firm, In-Q-Tel, is Invested in Wireless Energy and Silicon Battery Material Companies. Previous Investments Include Funding Social Media Mining Companies.
Ossia provides wireless power transmission device similar to Nikola Tesla's wireless energy designs.
In-Q-Tel is a CIA chartered venture capitalist firm.
The company has an extensive investment portfolio. This article will focus on:
In-Q-Tels investment is a company that mined Facebook and Instgram Posts
In-Q-Tel article detailing opportunities for green energy and space.
Ossia and Sila, which are power and energy companies in In-Q-Tel's portfolio.
In-Q-Tel and Social Media Mining
The Intercept detailed In-Q-Tel's investments in social media surveillance and data mining companies. The investments included companies that “provide unique tools to mine data from platforms such as Twitter:”
The connection between In-Q-Tel investing in social media mining and data analytics companies and HBGary Federal is significant, as Barret Brown was imprisoned for the leak which exposed a dystopian technocratic surveillance future funded, in part, by CIA venture capitalist firm In-Q-Tel.
WikiLeaks has an archive devoted to the HBGary leak.
Here is a list of detailed articles, including several by Brown, that discuss the In-Q-Tel leak and do not include content from WikiLeaks (which is likewise not cited in this article).
We exposed HBGary. HBGary came after us. The Intercept’s Sam Biddle helped. (Barret Brown).
Barrett Brown Sentenced to Five Years, Vows to Keep Investigating Government (The Intercept)
A sinister cyber-surveillance scheme exposed (Barret Brown, The Gaurdian)
Documentary about Barret Brown and the HBGary leak:
In-Q-Tel: What's Over the Horizon?
On August 16, 2022, In-Q-Tel published an article entitled Over the Horizon Technologies to Help Shape a Better World which discussed opportunities for green energy given the conflict in Ukraine impacting traditional energy sources. Additionally, the article discussed the future commercial opportunities in space.
Sila Nano
One of Sila Nano's founders is a Professor at Georgia Tech (which partners with NATO for disinformation research). The company makes batteries:
Chengwei Capital, a venture capitalist firm headquartered in China, is among the investors in Sila Nano:
Sila Nanotechnologies silicon batteries:
Sila's co-founder was the 7th employee hired by Tesla and received an award from the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
Sila revived $100 million from the Department of Energy in October 2022:
Ossia Wireless Energy
In-Q-Tel invested in wireless power company Ossia in 2021:
Ossia sells a device called Cota that transmits power wirelessly:
Which is the same technology Nikola Tesla tried to implement decades ago: