Investors may already know that the U.S. intelligence community operates a venture-capital arm whose goal is to provide the CIA and other intelligence agencies with cutting-edge gadgets and software. In-Q-Tel was founded in 1999 to ensure that the United States would keep up with fast-paced innovations in science and technology. IQT initially concentrated on meeting the needs of the CIA, but today the firm supports many of the seventeen agencies of which the U.S. intelligence community consists, including the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T). IQT focuses primarily on two areas: information and communications technologies, and physical and biological technologies. The first domain includes advanced analytic tools used to deal with big data, next-generation infrastructure and computing platforms, mobile and wireless technologies like security platforms, geospatial tools, and digital identity analytics like biometric tools.