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Our 19-qubit quantum computer is available online through our Forest platform, and the first commercially useful applications are already under exploration.\r\n\r\nWe were founded in 2013 by Chad Rigetti, and are located Berkeley and Fremont, California.", "one_liner": "Quantum coherent supercomputing.", "team_size": 51, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics", "launched_at": 1398907961, "tags": [ "Quantum Computing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": true, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2014", "status": "Public", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Manufacturing and Robotics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rigetti-computing", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2014/rigetti-computing.json" }, { "id": 12047, "name": "AuroraQ", "slug": "auroraq", "former_names": [ "QSpice Labs", "Aurora Quantum Technologies (formerly known as QSpice Labs Inc.)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c0f914f812e0962dabcc71833c4702b43c190e31.png", "website": "http://auroraq.com", "all_locations": "Waterloo, ON, Canada", "long_description": "At AuroraQ, we are building the world’s first truly practical quantum computing system. This system integrates together different quantum components, each performing different functions with the data, including processing, communication, and memory. Integration of different specialized components that efficiently work together to complete the calculation is precisely how classical computers work. No other quantum hardware company has yet tackled the integration challenge. AuroraQ will be the Dell of quantum computing, sourcing components from our partners to build a better quantum computer. ", "one_liner": "Building the first practical, integrated quantum computer.", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics", "launched_at": 1541567035, "tags": [ "Quantum Computing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2019", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Manufacturing and Robotics" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/auroraq", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2019/auroraq.json" }, { "id": 13616, "name": "Menten AI", "slug": "menten-ai", "former_names": [ "Menten Biotechnology Labs", "Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/43efdb0c86614e744393f6e6d327d93e3d19486e.png", "website": "http://menten.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Menten AI designs protein drugs and enzymes using quantum computing and machine learning. Their technology leapfrogs current computational methods making it possible to design previously intractable proteins. The team created the first protein design algorithm for current and near-term quantum computers and created the world’s first protein designed on a quantum computer. They are now working on 3 new proteins, including a peptide to prevent the spread of viruses like Covid-19. They have 2 paid pilot projects with multinational chemical companies and 4 LOI’s with pharma and biotech companies.", "one_liner": "Menten AI designs peptide and protein therapeutics using quantum…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery", "launched_at": 1583944661, "tags": [ "AI-powered Drug Discovery", "Quantum Computing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2020", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Drug Discovery and Delivery" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/menten-ai", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2020/menten-ai.json" }, { "id": 29754, "name": "Conductor Quantum", "slug": "conductor-quantum", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6f87b0dddb05a92646b51780f21648d12f3019bf.png", "website": "https://www.conductorquantum.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Conductor Quantum is building quantum superintelligence: AI that operates quantum computers to make scientific discoveries beyond human reach.\r\n\r\nQuantum computers let us understand the world at its most fundamental level, the path to new drugs, new materials, and discoveries no human can reach alone. \r\n\r\nA quantum computer is the perfect simulator of nature: it encodes the logic of reality into a programmable machine, atom by atom, electron by electron. Give AI that simulator and you open the door to discovery.\r\n\r\nThe bottleneck is operating the hardware. Today, engineers spend days or weeks by hand to bring a chip to operating conditions for just two qubits. A qubit is the information-carrying unit of a quantum computer, the equivalent of a bit in a classical one, and a useful machine needs billions. \r\n\r\nRemoving the human from that loop is only half the problem. Every command an AI sends to a quantum computer must be optimised for the specific hardware it runs on.\r\n\r\nWe build the AI that operates quantum computers and tunes every machine it runs on. That is the path to quantum superintelligence.", "one_liner": "AI that operates quantum computers for scientific discovery", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials", "launched_at": 1718219316, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "Hard Tech", "Machine Learning", "Quantum Computing", "Semiconductors" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": true, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/conductor-quantum", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2024/conductor-quantum.json" } ]