Inqtel also funds Anaconda, Mongodb and Gitlab, interesting

They fund much more than this, and almost all of it is cool. Check out In-Q-Tel Labs, they have some cool projects.

disclaimer: I work with In-Q-Tel investments almost daily, but am not affiliated.

That's a pretty interesting portfolio.

Do you see any interesting trends? In terms of one layer deeper than the general trends such as AI, space, etc.

Not to mention that people could have internet connected crap without even knowing it. No way to block it using PiHole, pfsense or other local routers and access points.

Given there's mobile service where most people are spending time, this situation is already much worse with cellular data b/c of the substantially higher bandwidth capability.

eg https://marketplace.att.com/products/att-iot-dataplans-lte-n...

NB-IoT or CAT-M1/LTE-M are a far better fit for this frankly.