In-Q-Tel and Sony put $527k combined into Keyhole, a mapping startup that google acquired in 2004 (1 year after the original investment). In Nov 2005, Sony and IQT sold google for about $2.2M, by then google had IPOd for $1.6 billion.
I wasn’t familiar with the details but that’s not a very convincing connection to derive anything from. Is there more evidence to the story? Seems like a small amount of money and they briefly crossed organizational paths for about a year, over 20 years ago.
I wasn’t familiar with the details but that’s not a very convincing connection to derive anything from. Is there more evidence to the story? Seems like a small amount of money and they briefly crossed organizational paths for about a year, over 20 years ago.