Thanks for that list! One of my favorite Wikipedia-isms are these very “list of” pages.
I’m pretty sure it was Keyhole, for what it’s worth. Curiously, both Google and Keyhole are In-Q-Tel investments, although I’m not sure if that impacted/steered/influenced the acquisition, however.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#History
https://web.archive.org/web/20130605121646/http://www.busine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
From that page:
> As of 2016, In-Q-Tel listed 325 investments, but more than 100 were kept secret, according to the Washington Post. The absence of disclosure can be due to national security concerns or simply because a startup company doesn’t want its financial ties to intelligence publicized.
> […]
> While In-Q-Tel is a nonprofit corporation, it differs from IARPA and other models in that its employees and trustees can profit from its investment. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that in 2016, nearly half of In-Q-Tel's trustees had a financial connection with a company the corporation had funded.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160831020609/https://www.wsj.c...
Which is to say, apparently insider trading isn’t just “illegal except when Congress/the President does it, except when it is illegal, actually,” if I’m parsing all this correctly; apparently In-Q-Tel gets special treatment too, in some cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#By_members_of_...
