# Itamar Sivan

> Itamar Sivan is the Israeli physicist and co-founder and CEO of Quantum Machines, established in 2018 with Yonatan Cohen and Nissim Ofek. Trained at the École Normale Supérieure and the Weizmann Institute of Science, he previously co-founded and managed Weizmann’s entrepreneurship program. His company develops the hardware and software used to control quantum processors and coordinate quantum and classical computing.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Quantum Machines
- **Organizations:** Quantum Machines, Weizmann Institute of Science
- **From:** Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** BSc in Physics, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, MSc in Physics, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, PhD; research in quantum electronics and microfabrication in Moty Heiblum’s laboratory, Weizmann Institute of Science
- **Known for:** Awarded the Weizmann Institute’s John F. Kennedy Prize for academic excellence in 2015., Co-founded Quantum Machines in 2018 and serves as CEO., Co-founded and led an entrepreneurship program at Weizmann.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2018** — Co-founded and served as managing director of the Weizmann Institute entrepreneurship program.
- **2015** — Received the John F. Kennedy Prize for academic excellence at Weizmann.
- **2018** — Co-founded Quantum Machines with Yonatan Cohen and Nissim Ofek; became CEO. The company announced $5.5 million in seed financing in November.
- **2020** — Delivered the TEDxIDCHerzliya talk Modern cavemen, the Coming World Transformation; the recording was published in February 2021.
- **2023** — Quantum Machines and NVIDIA announced DGX Quantum in March.
- **2024** — Quantum Machines opened the Israeli Quantum Computing Center at Tel Aviv University in June.
- **2025** — Quantum Machines announced a $170 million Series C in February, bringing total funding to $280 million.
- **2026** — Introduced the Open Acceleration Stack in March; Quantum Machines expanded through acquisitions of QHarbor and PCB Engineering.

## Achievements

- Awarded the Weizmann Institute’s John F. Kennedy Prize for academic excellence in 2015.
- Co-founded Quantum Machines in 2018 and serves as CEO.
- Co-founded and led an entrepreneurship program at Weizmann.
- Co-authored peer-reviewed research including An electronic quantum eraser (Science, 2014) and Robust electron pairing in the integer quantum hall effect regime (Nature Communications, 2015).

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Appeared with Rona Segev in TLV Partners’ Behind the Investment conversation, published October 11, discussing the founding of Quantum Machines and the future of quantum computing.
- **2026-06** — Quantum Machines announced its acquisition of Hungary’s PCB Engineering on June 17, following its acquisition of QHarbor six weeks earlier.
- **2026-03** — Published a company blog introducing the Open Acceleration Stack for integrating quantum processors and classical accelerators.

## Links

- Website: https://www.quantum-machines.co/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itamarsivan/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ItamarQuantum

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