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Idan Zachar and the distance between a good idea and a paying customer
From commercial law to enterprise software, Idan Zachar has built a career around getting technology into business. At Awz Ventures and Corsound AI, that work now runs through quantum software, security and the problem of deciding whom to trust.
Matt Johnson Left Private Equity for Quantum. The Waiting Became the Work.
The QC Ware co-founder moved from Air Force systems and private equity into a field famous for delayed promises. His answer was practical software, patient partnerships, and a conference where the industry could compare notes.
Hrant Gharibyan
Hrant Gharibyan is the co-founder and CEO of BlueQubit, a San Francisco quantum-software-as-a-service startup he launched in 2022 with Hayk Tepanyan. A theoretical physicist trained at MIT, Stanford (PhD under Leonard Susskind), and Caltech (in John Preskill's group), he co-authored a wormhole-teleportation algorithm that Google Quantum AI later ran on a real superconducting processor. BlueQubit builds GPU-accelerated emulators and a cloud platform that lets enterprises design and run quantum algorithms, and raised a $10M seed round in December 2024 led by Nyca Partners.
Richard Givhan
Richard Givhan is the co-founder and CEO of Haiqu, a quantum software company building a hardware-aware operating system that squeezes useful results out of today's noisy, qubit-starved quantum computers. A Stanford-trained engineering physicist who once chased dark matter at the Kavli Institute, Givhan now bets on the unglamorous middleware layer - circuit optimization, error shielding, and orchestration - to make near-term quantum applications run at roughly 100x lower compute cost. Incubated in 2022 inside Toronto's Creative Destruction Lab Quantum stream, Haiqu has raised about $19 million to date, including an $11 million seed round in January 2026 led by Primary Venture Partners.