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In this episode, Yuval Boger speaks with Rob Jesudason, CEO and founder of Serendipity Capital, a $1.3 billion permanent capital vehicle investing in quantum computing, communications, and sensing companies including Quantinuum, Monarch Quantum, Delta g, and QuantX. They discuss how investors — both institutional and retail — can evaluate quantum companies across modalities, with Rob arguing that triangulation across experts is essential since, as he puts it, modalities are like religion where everyone believes they’re right. Rob shares his view that the quantum industry is transitioning from lab science to managerial execution and engineering scale, that governments should partner with the [...]

Quantinuum has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) to train and expand Singapore’s quantum workforce. Building on Quantinuum’s existing R&D footprint and the planned deployment of its Helios quantum processor in Singapore, the collaboration aims to prepare an industry-ready workforce across engineering, systems development, and applied technologies. Key Initiatives of the Partnership Practical Curriculum: Joint development of hands-on training modules tailored for both undergraduate students and working professionals. Tool Access: Direct access to Quantinuum’s suite of quantum software, development tools, and simulators for educational use. Community Engagement: Hosting regular workshops, seminars, and campus events [...]

Julien Camirand Lemire, co-founder and CEO of Nord Quantique, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Julien discusses Nord Quantique's bosonic code approach, which uses microwave photons in superconducting cavities to achieve quantum error correction without large qubit overhead, including their GKP and Tesseract code demonstrations and a quantum error correction gain that has more than doubled since 2024. They explore the company's roadmap toward 10^-7 to 10^-9 error rates by 2032, the four-qubit system entering operation this year, and how Quebec's Sherbrooke ecosystem has enabled a capital-efficient build. They also discuss high-rate codes, transmon-based scaling challenges, and much more. Key Takeaways Nord [...]

Qunnect and Monarch Quantum have announced a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the commercialization, miniaturization, and scalable manufacturing of entanglement-based quantum networking hardware. The collaboration combines Qunnect’s field-deployed entanglement distribution technology with Monarch Quantum’s expertise in photonic system engineering, product packaging, and scalable manufacturing. Together, the companies plan to build modular, ruggedized variants of Qunnect’s Carina turnkey entanglement platform. Monarch has expertise in robotic, machine-vision guided manufacturing to improve cost, size, and reliability. In a photonic system it is important to reduce photon losses in the system as much as possible. Monarch's expertise in co-packaged optics and precise, repeatable, and reliable [...]

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) has reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026. The Palo Alto-based leader in quantum annealing and gate-model technology highlighted significant commercial traction, peer-reviewed technical breakthroughs published in Nature, and expanded multi-chip roadmaps for both system modalities. The table below summarizes key GAAP financial metrics for Q2 2026 compared with the prior quarter (Q1 2026) and the year-ago quarter (Q2 2025). Amounts in $MQ2'2026Q1'2026Q2'2025% vs Q1'2026% vs Q2'2025Revenue$3.08$2.86$3.10+7.6%-0.6%Operating Expenses$54.98$56.55$28.48-2.8%+93.1%Operating Loss($53.28)($54.73)($26.50)-2.7%+101.0%Net Loss($48.03)($18.36)($167.33)+161.6%-71.3%Cash and Investments$546.22*$588.40*$819.30*-7.2%-33.3% *Note: Cash and Investments aggregates Cash and Cash Equivalents ($296.64M) and Marketable Investment Securities ($249.57M), totaling $546.22M as of [...]

Quemix Inc., a Tokyo-based quantum software and algorithm startup and consolidated subsidiary of TerraSky Co., Ltd., announced it has secured an investment from Honda Motor Co., Ltd. The funding, provided through Honda's global open innovation initiative, Honda Xcelerator Ventures, aims to accelerate the practical deployment of quantum computing for next-generation materials development. This investment builds on an established and successful research partnership between Quemix and Honda. In May 2025, the two companies jointly developed a novel quantum state readout technique, which was followed in June 2026 by a breakthrough quantum algorithm designed to exponentially accelerate Density Functional Theory calculations, a cornerstone [...]

Shanghai-based photonic quantum firm TuringQ has officially initiated pre-IPO tutoring with the Shanghai branch of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, positioning itself as a leading contender in the race to become China’s first publicly listed quantum computing company. Advised by Guotai Haitong Securities, the move reflects both a broader rush among Chinese hard-tech enterprises to tap public capital markets and a pivotal transition for the domestic quantum ecosystem from early-stage venture funding toward commercialization. Founded in February 2021 by legal representative Jin Xianmin and controlled by Shanghai Siliang Quantum Technology, TuringQ has distinguished itself by focusing on photonic quantum architectures rather [...]

Installation of an integrated-photonics surface ion trap into an experimental vacuum system. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected a multidisciplinary team led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to receive $4 million in funding. Awarded through the NSF’s National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) initiative, the grant will support a new project titled FTL: Accelerating Fault-Tolerant Quantum Logic. The project’s central objective is to design a fault-tolerant quantum computer capable of deploying 60 logical (error-protected) qubits, establishing a blueprint for digital quantum simulations that exceed the capabilities of current classical supercomputers. Addressing Environmental Noise Through Logical Qubit Design Contemporary [...]

Stephen DiAdamo, co-founder and CTO of Qoro Quantum, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. DiAdamo discusses Qoro’s position as a software middleware company that abstracts hardware away from applications, walking through the Divi SDK, circuit serialization and parallelization, and an orchestrator that automatically selects between 12 simulation methods on CPU and GPU or dispatches to QPUs from any vendor. They explore how Qoro plugs into HPC schedulers like SLURM rather than replacing them, the CESGA proof of concept built on the CUNQA platform, the “150,000 lines of code to 20” claim, and the argument that multi-QPU centers are needed today for fallback [...]