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

Quantum Computing

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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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 contract as part of the Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow (IMPAQT) program to advance quantum algorithms for solving combinatorial optimization problems. In January 2024, the company collaborated with 
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 to enhance machine-learning methods for the financial sector using quantum computing abilities. In February 2024, Rigetti Computing and Riverlane joined a project led by the 
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AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

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 Nozomi Networks offers a platform to protect industrial control systems (ICS), industrial IoT, and OT devices. The company&rsquo;s platform leverages AI, behavioral analytics, and continuous monitoring capabilities to provide enterprises real-time visibility on their IoT and OT networks and detects cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and other anomalies before they materialize. The company&rsquo;s threat intelligence solution provides real-time threat and vulnerability intelligence to reduce the mean-time-to-detection (MTTD), and the Asset Intelligence solution delivers OT and IoT intelligence to detect anomalies at a faster mean-time-to-response (MTTR). The Central Management Console (CMC) integrates OT and IoT threat monitoring capabilities across site deployments in the edge or cloud (including AWS, Azure) for streamlined workflows and faster MTTR. The company offers multiple licensing options for its security solutions including subscription licenses, enterprise license agreements (ELAs), and perpetual licenses.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 As of August 2022, Nozomi Networks supported over 74 million devices across the energy, manufacturing, mining, transportation, utilities, building automation, smart cities, and critical infrastructure sectors.
 
 
 The company has forged strategic partnerships in IT, OT, and IoT with the world&rsquo;s five largest IT cybersecurity companies, seven of the world&rsquo;s 10 largest industrial automation companies, and five of the world&rsquo;s top 10 consulting companies including Exabeam, Deloitte, EY, FireEye, Google Cloud, IBM Security, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and AWS.
 
 
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 The company saw an over 5,000% increase in the number of devices handled during 2020, with the company doubling its customer base leading to a 90% YoY increase in new customer revenues, and an increase in annual recurring revenue by 110% during the same year. In 2020, the company reported that its market share neared 50% in key industry verticals.
 
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Nozomi Networks provides an industrial cybersecurity solution for real-time visibility to manage cyber risk and improve resilience for industrial operations. Customers gain advanced cybersecurity, improved operational reliability and IT/OT integration. It supports over a quarter of a million devices in sectors such as critical infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and utilities, to tackle escalating cyber risks to operational networks (OT).

EMVision Medical is developing a portable brain scanner for rapid, point of care, stroke diagnosis and monitoring.

Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company. It designs and manufactures quantum-integrated circuits. It packages and deploys those chips in a low-temperature environment, and they build control systems to perform quantum logic operations on them. The company develops software to integrate its systems directly into existing cloud infrastructure. It has also developed new algorithms for quantum computing, with a focus on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning. Our product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing.

Keysight Technologies specializes in electronic measurement. They serve government, automotive, industrial, and semiconductor manufacturing markets. They provide software-centric design, simulation, and test solutions. Their solutions include testing tools, analytical software, and services.

<div>Keysight Technologies is a world-leading provider of electronic measurement solutions. The company offers cutting-edge products and services that enable the development, testing, and optimization of wireless communications, aerospace and defense systems, automotive electronics, and semiconductor devices. Keysight's portfolio encompasses advanced design and validation tools, oscilloscopes, analyzers, meters, emulators, signal generators, and wireless test solutions.</div>

Keysight Technologies to Spotlight Solutions That Enable Customers to Realize Their Vision of Mobility at the Novi Automotive Testing Expo 2019

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Test & Measurement Equipment

A new generation for mobile connectivity with 5G and beyond

Next-gen Mobile Networks

Keysight Technologies has developed a High Voltage Wafer Test System, for power semiconductors that operates up to 3kV.

Nozomi Networks

In-Q-Tel

GGV Capital

Mitsubishi Electric

Triangle Peak Partners

Samsung Ventures

Lux Capital

Johnson Controls

Schneider Electric

Telefónica Innovation Ventures

Honeywell Ventures

Energize Capital

Activate Capital Partners

Porsche Ventures

CDP Venture Capital

Forward Investments

Companies that provide solutions to protect industrial internet of things (IIoT) and operational technology (OT) devices.

Deutsche Telekom

Keysight Technologies has been selected as a test partner for the Deutsche Telekom Satellite NB-IoT Early Adopter Programme. This collaboration aims to advance the development and deployment of narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) solutions over satellite networks.

EMVision Medical

Samsung Electronics

Samsung and Keysight test entire radio portfolio, demonstrating Samsung's leadership in Virtualised Open RAN and advancing its Massive MIMO radios

Companies that are developing land-based hardware and equipment which are installed on the earth's surface to transmit and receive 5G/6G signals for use in telecommunications, including base stations, antennas, and routers

Fujitsu

Fujitsu partners with  Keysight Technologies to  conduct a  Multi-vendor Interoperability Tests Using Virtualized Open RAN.

Broadcom

Broadcom in collaboration with Semtech and Keysight will demonstrate a 200G per lane (200G/lane) optical transmission link leveraging Broadcom’s latest SerDes, DSP and laser technology.

Tata Consultancy Services

Keysight selects TCS to architect a business-centric IT operating model for improved resilience and agility

Keysight and IBM Aim to Accelerate Open RAN Deployments in Europe with Memorandum of Understanding

Rigetti Computing

Bessemer Venture Partners

T. Rowe Price

Franklin Templeton

Palantir Technologies

Alumni Ventures

Ampere Computing

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


Keysight and Samsung collaborate to accelerate the development of its radio frequency (RF) solution which supports DSS technology.

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 Keysight Technologies is a world-leading provider of electronic measurement solutions. The company offers cutting-edge products and services that enable the development, testing, and optimization of wireless communications, aerospace and defense systems, automotive electronics, and semiconductor devices. Keysight's portfolio encompasses advanced design and validation tools, oscilloscopes, analyzers, meters, emulators, signal generators, and wireless test solutions.
 
 
 
 
 At the forefront of emerging technologies, Keysight's solutions facilitate the creation of autonomous vehicles through automotive Ethernet and radar testing capabilities. The company also supports the deployment of 5G and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications with its cellular V2X toolset and testing solutions aligned with 3GPP Release 16 specifications. Additionally, Keysight provides comprehensive cybersecurity testing for automotive systems.
 
 
 
 
 In the electronics manufacturing domain, Keysight offers fully automated in-circuit test solutions to mitigate risks like electrostatic discharge during printed circuit board assembly testing. The company's modular test environments enable comprehensive evaluation of electric vehicles, battery systems, and EV charging systems for compliance with industry norms.
 
 
 
 
 As of fiscal year 2021, Keysight generated revenues of USD 4.9 billion. The company has expanded its capabilities through strategic acquisitions, including Ixia in April 2017 for USD 1.6 billion, ScienLab Electronic Systems in September 2017, and Eggplant in June 2020 for USD 330 million.
 
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3Red8, now known as ZB8 Infra, is an infrastructure company focused on constructing a nationwide fiber optic network across the US. Their mission is to build core internet infrastructure, enabling the next generation of digital technologies such as AI, autonomous vehicles, 5G/6G, IoT, smart grids, and more. ZB8 Infra's innovative approach involves creating a sustainable, high-capacity, diverse, and secure national fiber network that ensures secure, faster, and more reliable end-to-end data transport solutions compared to legacy networks.
The company's network architecture follows a "triple-redundant, figure-eight" design, ensuring resilience and top-tier performance. If one path encounters issues, the other two seamlessly maintain data flow. This groundbreaking network aims to reduce the nation's digital divide by providing affordable connectivity to underserved communities along its routes.
ZB8 Infra's Phase 1 network build, spanning approximately 335 miles from Ashburn to Virginia Beach, is set to commence construction in the summer of 2024. This initial phase will strategically link Virginia Beach cable landing assets, the Richmond Network Access Point (NAP), and the Ashburn data center hub, with an expected completion date of Q1 2026.
In April 2024, the company announced its evolution from a fiber optic transport network to a national digital infrastructure solution, prioritizing redundancy and diversity for various stakeholders seeking secure, direct connections. ZB8 Infra's network incorporates the latest fiber technology, integrating sensor, measurement, and AI technologies during construction.

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Aarna Networks is an edge computing and 5G management solutions provider based in San Jose, California and Bengaluru, India. The company offers a Multi Cluster Orchestration Platform (AMCOP), an open-source orchestration, lifecycle management, and real-time policy and closed-loop automation platform designed to simplify the management of edge native and 5G network services.
In February 2023, Aarna Networks launched Aarna Edge Services (AES), a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of AMCOP that provides zero-touch edge orchestration and management services. AES enables tasks such as provisioning, configuring, and managing multi-cloud connectivity for cloud edge users, colo users, and SD-WAN service providers. It supports multi-cloud strategies, connecting the edge to public clouds, and allows users to share storage across public clouds and edge applications without incurring egress costs.
AES also facilitates the deployment of Machine Learning applications at the edge, reducing traffic to public clouds and eliminating the need for expensive on-premises hardware. The platform enables software-defined content delivery network (CDN) instances from partners to improve rich media application performance. Additionally, AES allows enterprises and operators to orchestrate O-RAN workloads and 5G Core on the cloud edge with partners.
In October 2023, Aarna Networks closed an oversubscribed seed funding round, raising USD 1.5 million from investors including LDV Partners, 3Lines, Carat Venture Partners, and Nvidia. The funding will be used to bring the company's cloud-Edge infrastructure, generative AI workloads, and Private 5G offerings to market.
In February 2024, Aarna Networks partnered with Airspan Networks and Druid Software to offer a managed private 5G solution for multi-site deployments, targeting service providers and system integrators. The solution combines Aarna's AMCOP platform, Airspan's sub-6GHz private 5G radio network, and Druid's 4G/5G core network platform, providing a "zero-touch" bundle for scalable Industry 4.0 systems.

Aarna Networks

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 AST SpaceMobile is developing the first and only space-based cellular broadband network designed to operate directly with standard, unmodified smartphones. The company's technology aims to provide global connectivity by deploying a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit that can communicate directly with mobile devices on the ground. AST SpaceMobile's satellites, called Bluebirds, feature large communications arrays measuring 693 square feet, making them the largest commercial communications arrays ever deployed in low Earth orbit. The company's first five commercial satellites completed final assembly in July 2024 and were prepared for shipment to Cape Canaveral for a planned launch in September 2024. These initial satellites are expected to provide non-continuous service across the US with over 5,600 cells in premium low-band spectrum. AST SpaceMobile's technology utilizes the 850 MHz low-band spectrum, which offers superior signal penetration and coverage capabilities. In April 2023, the company successfully demonstrated its technology by placing the world's first call from an ordinary cellphone in Texas to another cellphone in Japan using its BlueWalker three prototype satellite. AST SpaceMobile aims to deploy up to 168 satellites to achieve global coverage, with an estimated total cost approaching USD 5 billion for the full constellation.
 
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AST Space Mobile

Astranis is a San Francisco-based company that designs and manufactures small, low-cost telecommunications satellites to provide broadband internet access in remote and underserved areas. The company's unique approach involves building compact geostationary orbit (GEO) satellites weighing around 400-600 kilograms, significantly smaller than traditional GEO satellites that can be the size of a school bus.
Astranis' satellites utilize a proprietary software-defined radio payload technology, allowing for frequency and coverage flexibility, as well as efficient spectrum utilization. The company's first commercial satellite, Arcturus, launched in April 2023, was designed to provide over 7.5 gigabits per second (Gbps) of throughput in the Ka-band to triple satellite internet capacity across Alaska through a partnership with Pacific Dataport Inc. However, Arcturus experienced solar power issues post-launch, limiting its capabilities.
To address this, Astranis deployed a multi-mission satellite called UtilitySat in 2023 as an interim solution. UtilitySat can provide connectivity across Ku, Ka, and Q/V bands and has the ability to reposition multiple times within the GEO belt, thanks to its dual chemical and electric propulsion system.
Astranis' satellites have a designed lifespan of around 8-10 years, roughly half that of conventional GEO satellites. The company operates the satellites it builds and leases the capacity to customers, including telcos, Fortune 500 companies, and governments. In 2024, Astranis unveiled plans for its next-generation Omega satellites, designed to provide over 50 Gbps of throughput, five times more than the current generation. The Omega satellites will feature solid-state power amplifiers instead of traditional vacuum tubes, improving efficiency and reducing weight.
By the end of 2024, Astranis aims to have contracts worth over USD 1.2 billion in revenue from satellites sold, with customers in countries like Mexico, Argentina, Thailand, and the Philippines. The company has also expressed interest in competing for the Protected Tactical SATCOM - Global (PTS-G) program, a US government initiative for a proliferated GEO telecoms constellation.

Astranis

Bad Cell Reception LLC (BCR) specializes in providing cellular signal enhancement solutions for multi-dwelling units (MDUs), hospitality, and commercial buildings. The company offers custom-designed, cost-effective alternatives to traditional Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) to improve cellular reception within buildings. BCR's services encompass consultation, property surveying, and system implementation, aimed at boosting tenant satisfaction, increasing retention, and enhancing property value. Their cellular enhancement systems are designed to address the growing demand for improved cell signal, which has become one of the most desired amenities for residents over the past decade.
In addition to cellular enhancement, BCR offers security camera systems tailored to meet various project scales, from small setups to complex multi-campus or multi-building requirements. The company employs the latest equipment to ensure quick deployment and compliance with client specifications. BCR also provides solutions for Emergency Responder Radio Coverage (ERRC) and public safety radio signal boost systems, which can be crucial for code compliance in many buildings. Furthermore, the company can assist with ancillary technology needs such as internet of Things (IoT) backbones and WiFi systems.
BCR emphasizes its ability to intervene at any stage of construction, from groundbreaking to near completion, to address cellular signal needs. The company positions itself as an alternative to 5G for solving in-building reception issues, noting that 5G technology often performs worse than 4G LTE inside buildings due to weaker signal strength. BCR's team brings over 50 years of combined experience in the telecom and cellular industry, leveraging this expertise to provide efficient and effective solutions for improving in-building cellular coverage.

Bad Cell Reception LLC

Companies that are developing space-based hardware and equipment to transmit and receive 5G/6G signals for use in telecommunications, including satellites and other space-based equipment

Companies that are developing technology and solutions which are used to improve existing network range or efficiency; also includes companies looking to build next generation networks themselves

Companies developing next-generation software solutions for mobile service providers to manage cloud infrastructure and network services

Provides 5G/6G telecom technologies to offer lower latency and increased capacity and coverage

Earth-based hardware and telecom software companies adopt AI/ML for design and RAN automation

Some network optimization companies offer a single network to connect users and IoT devices globally

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 Q-CTRL, a quantum software company, has joined hands with tech solutions company Keysight Technologies in a partnership aiming to expedite the development, characterization, and scientific demonstration of quantum processors. The financial details and other terms of the agreement remain confidential.
 The collaboration aims to integrate Q-CTRL's Boulder Opal hardware optimization system with Keysight's Quantum Control System. This integration will enable quantum developers to effectively control the quantity and quality of quantum processors, minimizing calibration time and expanding the possibilities in quantum science and engineering.&nbsp;
 
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