Our mission:To build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems
Quantum computers are a revolutionizing technology — they will transform business, society, and the planet for the better, and IonQ is at the forefront of this revolution.
After over 25 years of academic research, IonQ was founded in 2015 by Chris Monroe and Jungsang Kim with $2 million in seed funding from New Enterprise Associates, a license to core technology from the University of Maryland and Duke University, and the goal of taking trapped ion quantum computing out of the lab and into the market. In the following three years, we raised an additional $20 million from GV, Amazon Web Services, and NEA, and built two of the world’s most accurate quantum computers.
In 2019, we raised another $55 million in a round led by Samsung and Mubadala, and announced partnerships with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to make our quantum computers available via the cloud. We’re now hard at work bringing our next generation of hardware to life and to partners around the world.
- Headquartered
- College Park, MD
- Founded
- 2015
Leadership
Peter Chapman
President & CEO
Jungsang Kim
Co-Founder & CTO
Thomas Kramer
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Monroe
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
Board of Directors
Craig Barratt
Independent Board Member
Ron Bernal
Venture Partner, NEA
Blake Byers
General Partner, GV
Peter Chapman
President & CEO, IonQ
Jungsang Kim
Co-Founder & CTO, IonQ
Advisors
Kenneth Brown
Associate Professor, Duke University
Jagdeep Singh
CEO at QuantumScape
Umesh Vazirani
Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Margaret (Peg) Williams
former Senior Vice President of Research and Development, Cray Inc.
Dave Wineland
Philip H. Knight Distinguished Research Chair, University of Oregon
Investors
