MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious.  The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace. MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful Los Angeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.

MaC Venture Capital

Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School among others (20 unicorns) It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Soma Capital

Toyota Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from around the world. Founded in July 2017, its mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring disruptive technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $500 million in assets under management, the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, smart cities, digital health, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.

Toyota Ventures

With more than two decades of successful experience investing in small and medium-sized companies in Ukraine and the CIS region, Western NIS Enterprise Fund established u.ventures to invest in early stage technology startups with world-class teams and a global potential for growth. Our goal is to support local entrepreneurs who dare to build exciting global ventures.

u.ventures

Roosh Ventures is an entrepreneurs-led VC firm with offices in Kyiv, Paris, and London. Taking on a co-investment-only approach, the firm invests from Pre-seed to Series A across various sectors with a slight focus on enterprise SaaS, fintech, gaming, and AI-driven products in the EU and US markets. Since its launch in 2020, the firm has already backed stars such as Deel, TheGuarantors, Oura, Pipe, Alma, Playco, Dapper Labs, Arkis, and 35+ other companies. Part of Roosh Investment Group, Roosh Ventures drives growth and success for portfolio companies by providing tailored support in AI/ML strategy planning and implementation, mobile app growth insights, B2B gaming sales expertise, and comprehensive assistance in talent acquisition, fundraising, legal consulting, and public relations. For more about Roosh Ventures and its portfolio companies, visit roosh.vc.

Roosh Ventures

First Ukrainian high-technology venture capital firm established by IT experts for IT geeks, investing in early-stage tech companies

SID Venture Partners

Haiqu

Haiqu Inc. is a quantum computing software firm focusing on the development of enabling technology to improve the performance of modern quantum hardware. Their software addresses the adoption obstacles that prevent scalable quantum applications from being realized, allowing for a broader variety of practical use cases in finance, life sciences, mobility, and other fields.

Haiqu is a quantum computing software startup that develops platform-agnostic technology to enhance the performance of quantum processors. The company aims to address the foundational bottlenecks precluding the adoption of quantum applications, such as the limited number of qubits and the high noise sensitivity of near-term quantum processors. Haiqu's software extends quantum hardware capability by orders of magnitude, enabling a broader set of practical use-cases in finance, chemistry, life sciences, mobility, and other domains.

Quantum information processing is slowly becoming a reality, ushering in a new technological era.

Quantum Computing

Haiqu: Quantum Computing Software Company Completes $4 Million Funding Round

Haiqu is a quantum computing software startup that develops platform-agnostic technology to enhance the performance of quantum processors. The company aims to address the foundational bottlenecks precluding the adoption of quantum applications, such as the limited number of qubits and the high noise sensitivity of near-term quantum processors. Haiqu's software extends quantum hardware capability by orders of magnitude, enabling a broader set of practical use-cases in finance, chemistry, life sciences, mobility, and other domains.Haiqu leverages expertise in quantum complexity, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing to create a product that can streamline the entire quantum computing industry. The company's technology maps large-scale quantum computing applications to small, error-prone quantum processors, effectively maximizing the capacity of quantum hardware and reducing algorithms' sensitivity to noise.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30770">June 2024</a>, the company launched Rivet, an open-source toolkit designed to help developers streamline the execution of modern quantum workflows like error mitigation and quantum machine learning. Rivet can be accessed for free, and the company plans to release a companion mobile app for iOS and Android.

The UK-based Quantum Motion Technologies is engaged in developing quantum computer architectures based on silicon technology, which are compatible with standard silicon processing (CMOS process). The company believes this approach will enable it to create scalable quantum computers with thousands to millions of qubits. The company is working on a technology platform that is not just a qubit, but a scalable array of qubits based on the ubiquitous silicon technology already used in smartphones and computers.Quantum Motion’s goal is to fast-track the development of true fault-tolerant quantum computers and reach a million qubits and beyond by leveraging existing knowledge in device fabrication within the trillion-dollar silicon industry.Key customers and partnershipsIn February 2024, Quantum Motion entered into a project with the <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26533">National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) </a>to build the UK’s first silicon-based quantum processor test bed in its Oxfordshire site. In November 2023, Quantum Motion partnered with the University of Pennsylvania to further develop its silicon quantum computer chip technology.Funding and financialsThe company raised GBP 42 million (USD 50.5 million) in a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16504">Series B </a>funding round in February 2023 led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC). The proceeds were allocated for the development of the company’s quantum processors based on silicon technology.

Quantum Motion Technologies

SeeQC is a quantum hardware startup spun out from Hypres, a leading developer of superconductor integrated circuits. SeeQC was developing a digital system-on-a-chip design that integrates classical and quantum circuits into a hybrid system in order to overcome quantum computers’ current challenges. This also reduces noise and interference, maintaining high-fidelity quantum operations at scale. The company owns and operates superconducting flux quantum (SFQ) processors, a chip fabrication facility that enables the creation of multi-chip quantum computing systems and provides foundry services for superconducting devices. It also has facilities in London, UK, and Naples, Italy.Through the hybrid approach, SeeQC believes it can reduce the cost of quantum computers by 1/400th, provide greater control, and reduce energy requirements significantly.Key customers and partnershipsIn September 2023, the company entered into a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop the first all-digital chip-to-chip link between quantum computers and graphics processing units (GPU). SeeQC has also partnered with multinational chemical company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16298">BASF </a>in February 2023 to explore quantum computing in simulating chemical reactions.&nbsp;&nbsp;

SeeQC

IonQ develops general-purpose quantum computers using trapped-ion technology. Although the company calls itself a full-stack player, its focus has been on developing hardware. In December 2020, it revealed its quantum roadmap that introduced its new metric, “algorithmic qubits (AQ),” which represents the largest number of qubits that can be deployed while maintaining high performance and considering error correction. Its latest system IonQ Aria achieved 20 AQ, as of May 2023. In terms of physical qubits, IonQ’s latest hardware had 32 qubits, which were expected to hold 22 AQs. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23125">October 2023 </a>, the company achieved 29 algorithmic qubits (AQ) using barium qubits for the first time.Founded in 2015, IonQ’s main competitive advantage stems from its approach to designing qubits that allow computers to be operated at room temperature with lower error rates.&nbsp;IonQ unveiled the industry’s first glass-based trapped ion computing chip called the Reconfigurable Multicore Quantum Architecture (RMQA) technology, in August 2021, which the company believes will significantly expand the longevity of qubits and enable at least triple-digit scalability.&nbsp;In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31824">July 2024 </a>, the company unveiled an accelerated roadmap with expanded 2025 technical milestones, focused on improving native two-qubit gate performance to over 99.9% (three 9s) in 2025, with further gains expected in 2026 from the transition to barium qubits.Key customers and partnershipsIonQ has entered several strategic partnership including with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25925">Rescale </a>(January 2024) to combine their cloud computing and quantum computing capabilities; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22265">Air Force Research Lab </a>(September 2023) to deploy two barium-based trapped ion quantum computing systems for quantum networking research and application development in a deal valued at USD 25.5 million; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21158">BearingPoint </a>(August 2023) to offer its quantum systems and related professional services to the European market; SoftBank Investment Advisers (June 2021) to provide support in deploying the company’s quantum systems globally; and Accenture (September 2021) to accelerate the industrial application of IonQ’s quantum systems.The company offers access to its quantum computer via all major quantum cloud computing platforms including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Marketplace (GCM). It is also integrated with major software development kits (SDK) including IBM Qiskit and Google Cirq. In May 2023, IonQ began offering its IonQ Aria system on Amazon Braket.

IonQ

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 Rigetti is an end-to-end provider of general-purpose quantum computers. The company&rsquo;s approach to developing computers is based on superconducting qubit technology, similar to Google and IBM. Since 2017, the company has operated a cloud-based quantum platform that allows developers to either create applications or use Rigetti&rsquo;s virtual machine.&nbsp;
 
 
 Rigetti is well-positioned to compete with incumbents as well as startups because of its advancements in hardware, which is currently used by 14 other companies (mostly other quantum software startups). Rigetti introduced the world&rsquo;s first multi-chip quantum processor, in June 2021, that physically connects multiple chips with their own qubits in a single functional processor, which is expected to improve scalability. It also launched its first commercially available 80-qubit quantum system in February 2022, which exceeds the qubit count of any other startup, but is lower than that of IBM.&nbsp;
 
 
 In June 2022, the company expanded its geographical presence with the launch of its 32-qubit, cloud-based 
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 In July 2021, the company partnered with Astex Pharmaceuticals to apply quantum technology to drug discovery. This partnership was a stepping stone for Rigetti to commercially apply quantum computing to the pharmaceutical industry. Additionally, as part of an InnovateUK grant, the company partnered with 
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Rigetti Computing

PsiQuantum develops general-purpose quantum computers based on the silicon photonic approach, a relatively new method that is capable of using the existing silicon supply chain of conventional electronics. This will help the company keep production costs low and provide scalability. Its semiconductor roadmap involves interconnecting multiple quantum processor chips with optical fibers and high-performance optical switches to enable teleportation and entanglement of single-photon operations between chips.PsiQuantum's technology uses individual photons, particles of light, as qubits. This approach offers several advantages, including the ability to operate at higher temperatures compared to other qubit technologies, compatibility with fiber-optic networks, and resistance to electromagnetic interference. Additionally, photons can maintain quantum states for relatively long periods, allowing more quantum operations and increased computational power.The company aims to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer with one million physical qubits by the end of 2027, enabling error correction and addressing complex problems across various industries.In <a href="https://www.psiquantum.com/news-import/psiquantum-opens-uk-based-research-facility-to-develop-next-generation-high-power-cryogenic-systems-for-large-scale-quantum-computing">March 2023</a>, PsiQuantum opened an advanced R&amp;D facility at the Daresbury Laboratory in the UK, backed by GBP 9 million from the UK Government's Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology. This facility provides access to one of Europe's largest liquid-helium cryogenic plants, essential for testing PsiQuantum's approach to storing quantum chips at extremely low temperatures.Key customers and partnershipsWorking toward its goal, in May 2021, PsiQuantum entered a partnership with global chip manufacturer <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/2245">GlobalFoundries</a> (GF) to build an integrated, silicon photonics-based quantum system called the “Q1 system” by manufacturing quantum chips in GF’s semiconductor foundry. This partnership also received US federal funding of <a href="https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-announces-25-million-for-globalfoundries-and-psiquantum-to-develop-the-next-generation-of-quantum-computers-at-rome-air-force-research-lab-and-malta-campus-fed-funding-will-strengthen-national-security-supercharge-us-technological-competitiveness_ensure-upstate-new-york-continues-to-lead-quantum-technology">USD 25 million</a> in April 2022.&nbsp;In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13868">October 2022</a>, the company secured a USD 22.5 million contract from the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to co-design advanced quantum photonic chips that will be manufactured by GF. The company partnered with Japanese quantum software company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/7246">QunaSys</a> in December 2021 to research quantum-based industrial chemistry and material science solutions and partnered with the UK-based Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22518">Hartree Centre</a> in October 2023 to develop Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) applications in the UK. In January 2024, PsiQuantum and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25972">Mitsubishi UFJ </a>Financial Group (MUFG) entered PsiQuantum's Qlimate initiative project with Mitsubishi Chemical to research energy-efficient materials to promote a low-carbon economy.In May 2023, PsiQuantum received a USD 25 million grant from the US Department of Defense, through the Air Force Research Laboratory, for tooling and further development of its photonic quantum computer.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29499">April 2024</a>, the company secured AUD 940 million (USD 620 million) from the Australian Commonwealth and Queensland Governments to establish the first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer in Australia. Notably, PsiQuantum is one of the highest privately funded startup in the industry.

PsiQuantum

Hardware manufacturers for quantum computers or quantum-adjacent products.

Developers of quantum algorithms and software programs for specific industries such as pharmaceuticals or finance.

Full-stack companies offering hardware and software quantum computing solutions.


Companies developing quantum computing hardware using either gate-based or annealing technology.

Developers of quantum system software such as firmware, operating systems, compilers, qubit control software, etc.

Companies offering access to quantum hardware through either their own hardware or through a third party via the cloud.

Startups in this space offer solutions for building enterprise-specific applications and automations

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 Haiqu, a quantum computing startup, has released Rivet, an open-source toolkit intending to assist developers in enhancing the efficiency of quantum workflows such as error mitigation and quantum machine learning. The company also intends to launch a mobile app for Rivet on iOS and Android. Rivet aims to address the significant issue of transpilation time, reducing it dramatically from hours to minutes for most applications. This enhancement allows developers to better manage computational resources and optimize research and prototyping cycles.
 The company points out that the current libraries do not support fast, controllable, and noise-aware transpilation of parameterized circuits. As a solution, Haiqu developed Rivet to reduce the amount of time and money spent on high-volume, high-quality transpilation. This software is now open-source to help streamline and improve the effectiveness of others' research in the field.
 Haiqu's major focus is on creating technology that can improve the performance of current quantum hardware, thereby speeding up the practical utilization of quantum computing. The company aims to tackle the obstacles that prevent the widespread adoption of quantum applications, such as the limited quantity of qubits available and the high noise sensitivity of near-term quantum processors.
 
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