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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.