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QC Ware Corp.
QC Ware is a Palo Alto-based enterprise software company that builds quantum and quantum-inspired tools for hard scientific problems. Founded in 2014 by veterans of NASA Ames, it started as a hardware-agnostic quantum cloud platform (Forge) and evolved into Promethium, a GPU-accelerated quantum chemistry SaaS that runs density functional theory calculations on molecules up to thousands of atoms, claiming speeds 10 to 100 times faster than legacy tools. The company also runs Q2B, the largest annual practical quantum computing conference, and counts Goldman Sachs, Airbus, BMW and Covestro among its collaborators and investors.
Osmo
Osmo is a digital olfaction company teaching computers to smell. Spun out of Google Brain in 2022 by neuroscientist Alex Wiltschko, it built an AI 'Principal Odor Map' that predicts how a molecule smells from its chemical structure, then uses that model to design new aroma ingredients and digitize real-world scents. In 2024 it became the first to 'teleport' a smell - capturing a fresh plum and recreating it with no human in the loop. Its platform, Olfactory Intelligence, now powers Generation, the world's first AI-driven fragrance house working with roughly 100 beauty and consumer brands.