The CIA gives away money for a wide range of activities from research grants to undergraduate scholarships.
If a first-year college student receives a CIA scholarship, then they are automatically going to spy on their classmates ?
There is a venture captial branch of the CIA named In-Q-Tel. It funds firms such as Cylance. The CIA is after technologies that fit somewhere under the broad umbrella of "intelligence." For example, Google Earth arose from In-Q-Tel funded technology. I would bet very heavily that the CIA's main interest in Cylance is their mathematical modeling.