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Ground State Ventures
Venture capital · United States · North America
Ground State Ventures discovers quantum technology startups worldwide and supports them from the earliest stage with funding and operational support. It runs events and publishes news on the global quantum technology industry.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsquantum computingquantum sensingquantum communicationsinfrastructuresoftwaredeep tech
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Or find every investor that fitsGround State Ventures lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 11 funding rounds, 6 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Pre-seed, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (25%), AI & Machine Learning (22%) and Healthcare & Biotech (19%). 42% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Cottonwood Technology Fund, Creative Destruction Lab and Quantonation.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Ground State Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Ground State Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 18. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 43% |
| Seed | 29% |
| Series A | 29% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 9 | 5 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 94th | 9 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 72% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 39% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 36th | 25% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Cottonwood Technology Fund | 3 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| Quantonation | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Alumni Ventures | 2 |
| Collaborative Fund | 2 |
| IQT | 2 |
| InnovationQuarter | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1794%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company16%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 25% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 22% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 19% | 15% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 13% | 1% |
| Cybersecurity | 13% | 4% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Education | 3% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Cottonwood Technology Fund
Compare Ground State Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Ground State Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 5 May 2026 | Series B | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 4 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 13 Jan 2026 | Seed Led |
Round details for Ground State Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Ground State Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARQ provides financial services, including currency conversion, investment, and payment services, to individuals and businesses globally. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Azulene Labs develops predictive physics-AI models for chemistry | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Diffraqtion builds the Quantum Vision System and the AI that reads it to measure what every other camera throws away | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Jan 2026Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| EMode Photonix provides software for researchers and engineers to design and test new photonics technologies faster. | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| EuQlid uses magnetic imaging technology to map buried electrical currents in materials and devices | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| OrangeQS develops test solutions for quantum chips | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Qblox engineers the scalable control stack behind the world’s most advanced quantum experiments and emerging quantum computers. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| QphoX is pioneering the future of quantum computing by bridging the gap between classical and quantum technologies. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| QT Sense develops and uses fluorescent nanodiamonds to detect free radicals and oxidative stress inside live cells for various applications including drug development and disease research. | Healthcare & Biotech | Feb 2025Round · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Quantum Elements builds, optimizes, and launches quantum applications faster than ever powered by AI | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| QuantWare develops and supplies quantum processors and related technologies | Industrial & Manufacturing | Jun 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| RhoneXum develops cryogenic electronics for quantum computing and other applications | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| RhymeQ lets software developers build quantum applications in Python | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Rigetti Computing develops and ships quantum computing hardware, including quantum processing units. | Healthcare & BiotechRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| SiC Systems integrates physics-informed AI agents, control systems, and digital twins to safely orchestrate and control complex environments. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| SiC Systems develops advanced Physical Vapor Transport furnaces for silicon carbide growth. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Sygaldry builds quantum-accelerated AI servers to speed up training and inference for artificial intelligence models. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Apr 2026Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 10 Nov 2026- Site
- gsv.vc
- Last read
- 10 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 26 Feb 2025
- Companies checked
- 18
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