Pending Review
Keyhole Corp was headquartered in Mountain View, California — the same city as Google (and later Alphabet).
Date: 2001-2004
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
CNN paid Keyhole $75,000 for a license to use EarthViewer during its coverage of the 2003 Iraq invasion — a contract that required CNN to display the Keyhole URL on air.
Date: 2003-03
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
In May 2004, Skyline Software Systems filed a patent infringement suit against Keyhole over U.S. Patent No. 6,496,189 (remote landscape display). The case was dismissed in favor of Google in March 2007.
Date: 2004-05
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rob Painter, Director of Technology Assessment at In-Q-Tel who led the Keyhole investment, joined Google in 2004 as federal manager for Google Earth Enterprise and later ran Google Federal.
Date: 2004
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google stock worth over $2.2 million on November 15, 2005 — shares obtained through Google's acquisition of Keyhole.
Date: 2005-11-15
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Keyhole Markup Language (KML), created by Keyhole, was adopted as an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) international standard in 2008 and later used by NASA for Earth science data.
Date: 2008-04-14
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
After Google's acquisition, EarthViewer was rebranded as Google Earth in June 2005. Google Earth technology also became the foundation for Google Maps and Street View.
Date: 2005-06-28
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Keyhole CEO John Hanke served four years with the United States Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. and overseas in Myanmar working on foreign policy issues before founding Keyhole.
Date: 1990-1994
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Google acquired Keyhole Corp in October 2004 for approximately $35 million, immediately reducing the consumer price of Keyhole 2 LT from $69.95 to $29.95 per year.
Date: 2004-10-27
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Keyhole raised a total of $527,500 in venture capital from investors including Sony Music Entertainment (Sony venture fund), NVIDIA (via a bundling deal), In-Q-Tel (CIA), and angel investor Brian McClendon.
Date: 2001-2003
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Within two weeks of In-Q-Tel's engagement, NIMA deployed EarthViewer to support US troops during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. TV networks including CNN, ABC, and CBS licensed the technology for live war coverage.
Date: 2003-03
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
In February 2003, the CIA's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel made a strategic investment in Keyhole for approximately $2 million. This was In-Q-Tel's first engagement on behalf of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).
Date: 2003-02
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Keyhole developed EarthViewer, a 3D satellite imagery application that combined multi-terabyte databases of satellite imagery and aerial photography with videogame-style 3D graphics.
Date: 2001-2003
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Keyhole Inc was founded in 2001 as a spin-off from Intrinsic Graphics, a 3D graphics company co-founded by Brian McClendon and Michael Jones, both former Silicon Graphics engineers.
Date: 2001
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Search scope note: No usaspending contracts found for "Keyhole Inc" in automated database search as of 2026-04-13. This reflects search coverage limits, not confirmed absence from public record.
Added: 13 Apr 2026
Pending Review
Keyhole Inc filed filing with the SEC on 2015-02-09. Accession number: N/A.
Date: 2015-02-09
Added: 13 Apr 2026
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