IonQ Company Profile

IonQ is at the vanguard of the revolution being sparked by quantum computing, which has the power to positively impact business, society, and the environment.

Chris Monroe and Jungsang Kim founded IonQ in 2015 with $2 million in seed funding from New Enterprise Associates, a licence to core technology from the University of Maryland and Duke University, and the objective of bringing trapped ion quantum computing out of the lab and into the market. This came after more than 25 years of academic research.

We then secured an additional $20 million from GV, Amazon Web Services, and NEA over the course of the next three years, using which we constructed two of the most precise quantum computers ever made.

In 2019, we announced partnerships with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to make our quantum computers accessible through the cloud, and we secured an additional $55 million in a round headed by Samsung and Mubadala.

We created new generations of high-performance quantum hardware in 2020 and 2021, added Google Cloud Marketplace to our list of cloud partners, and made a number of announcements about collaborations and business relationships with top academic and commercial institutions. read more