# IQT

> IQT is a VC fund in Arlington backing Software and Analytics. See 294 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Arlington, United States
- Total investments: 294
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/20919
- Website: https://www.iqt.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IQT.Belarus

IQT is a VC fund in Arlington focused on Software and Analytics. IQT identifies and partners with companies developing advanced technologies. It evaluates emerging technologies and collaborates with entities that show potential for practical applications. IQT serves industries such as defense, cybersecurity, and telecommunications.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 76 | 26% |
| Analytics | 37 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 36 | 12% |
| Cyber Security | 32 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 32 | 11% |

180 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 61 | 21% |
| Series B | 52 | 18% |
| Series A | 50 | 17% |
| Seed | 33 | 11% |
| Series C | 19 | 6% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 148 | 50% |
| Australia | 16 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 4% |
| Canada | 8 | 3% |
| Germany | 4 | 1% |

15 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Darby | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-darby |
| Daniel Geer | Chief Information Security Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-geer |
| Daniel Gwak | Chief Investment Officer | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-gwak-2 |
| Eugene Chiu | Senior Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eugene-chiu |
| Justin Wilder | Senior Vice President | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-wilder |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mariana Minerals | Mariana Minerals is a software-first critical minerals company that supplies materials essential for modern energy, AI, and defense applications. The company uses its proprietary platform, MarianaOS, which combines AI, machine learning, and end-to-end project execution tools to accelerate the timeline from discovery to production in the miningsector. | $310M | Series B | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Twenty Technologies | Twenty Technologies builds cyber warfare software to automate and accelerate offensive cyber operations. | $100M | Series B | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Odyssey | Odyssey operates as an AI start-up, provides hollywood-grade visual AI. | $310M | Series B | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Ent.AI | Ent.AI is an end-to-end platform that enables organizations to rapidly build world-class AI models and applications. They provide video and image annotation, text and document annotation, 3d point cloud annotation, and data sourcing. Cloud-hosted deep learning models that provide human-like interpretation of video, image, audio and text. | $100M | Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Ent.AI | Ent.AI is an end-to-end platform that enables organizations to rapidly build world-class AI models and applications. They provide video and image annotation, text and document annotation, 3d point cloud annotation, and data sourcing. Cloud-hosted deep learning models that provide human-like interpretation of video, image, audio and text. | $100M | Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Harbinger | Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| RevEng | RevEng.AI is a cyber security and artificial intelligence company that helps organizations understand their cyber security supply chain. RevEng.ai identifies fundamental components of closed-source program binaries and generates real-valued vector embeddings for each component. | $15M | Series A | May 27, 2026 |  |
| Lyzr | Lyzr is an enterprise agent framework for building reliable and self-learning AI agents that can communicate and exchange intel with one another, forming a knowledge mesh that leads to OGI - Organizational General Intelligence. At Lyzr, we take enterprise data privacy seriously, and hence, we designed the entire agent framework, including the APIstudio and OGI studio, to run locally on the customer's own cloud (VPC) or on-prem servers. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Moment Energy | Moment is a start-up striving to provide greater access to renewable and reliable energy storage. We create battery units that can be used in a variety of applications. Moment is currently focused on storing energy for off-grid, end of grid customers, and plans on powering remote communities in the future. | $40M | Series B | May 05, 2026 |  |
| QuantWare | QuantWare develops and fabricates superconducting quantum processors and related hardware for use in quantum computing systems. The company provides quantum processing units (QPUs) with different configurations, along with components such as quantum amplifiers and foundry services that support the design and production of quantum devices. Itstechnology is based on a 3D scaling architecture that aims to increase qubit counts and improve performance while addressing limitations in existing quantum hardware. QuantWare supplies its hardware to researchers, technology companies, and other organizations working on building and scaling quantum computers across multiple countries. In addition to manufacturing processors, the company supports the broader quantum ecosystem by offering commercially available hardware and infrastructure for developing large-scale quantum computing systems. | $178M | Series B | May 05, 2026 |  |

10 of 294 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 19 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Main Sequence Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/main-sequence-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does IQT invest in?

IQT invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 294 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact IQT?

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### Who are the partners at IQT?

The team at IQT includes Christopher Darby (CEO), Daniel Geer (Chief Information Security Officer) and Daniel Gwak (Chief Investment Officer), among 21 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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