CIA Backs Apigee

In a discrete low-key press release API house Apigee said Thursday that it’s getting backing from the CIA’s strategic venture arm In-Q-Tel (IQT) to enhance its widgetry to support the US intelligence community.
No number was mentioned.
Apigee has already raised $72.1 million in five rounds that included SAP, the German company, four times.
The CIA and other spook agencies want to improve their data sharing and figure out what to do with information once they get it, especially since there’s more information than ever before and Apigee is focused on mobile apps, which spew out information like an open fire hydrant during a hot summer in the projects.

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