Universal Quantum, a University of Sussex spin-out, raised more than $100 million in a Series A co-led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures. The money goes into commercialising hardware at a company already delivering a $77 million contract for Germany's DLR, startup.eu reported.
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- Builder 32%
- Operator
- Operator 20%
- Investor
- Investor 48%
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- Evidence60
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives70
- Confidence62
buildOne report1 publisher SirenOpt counts $7.4M of converted securities inside its $19.4M equity sale
The UC Berkeley spin-out's Form D reports $19,428,895 sold against a $32.4 million target, and $7.4 million of that came from converted securities, leaving about $12 million the filing does not break out as cash.
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- Evidence64
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives62
- Confidence62
buildOne report1 publisher Fortaegis seats its contract manufacturer and Tokyo Electron's venture arm inside a $50M round
The Dutch startup derives keys from each chip's manufacturing variation, and its $50 million Series A brings in Prodrive Technologies, TNO Ventures and TEL Venture Capital as investors who also supply the production path.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives78
- Confidence45
55 North's first simulation check spends 3.3% of its EUR 300m quantum fund
PhysicsX's $135m Series B, led by Atomico, drew Siemens in as a strategic investor even as Siemens sells its own Simcenter solvers, and those two European rounds carry the whole case for simulation as a growth sector.
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- Evidence26
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- Not scored
- Hype gap+55
- Incentives68
- Confidence34
buildOne report1 publisher A calutron in Dallas hit 15.38% U-235. The step it might delete matters more.
Actinide's accredited assay is real and very small. The claim worth testing is that a direct-to-solid separator removes the deconversion step America never built.
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- Evidence40
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives80
- Confidence38
Inertia's fusion claim is a factory claim: fuel pellets in hours, not a week
The startup says crystal growth now takes 30 minutes instead of up to a week, and a whole pellet two to three hours. Nine of its ten stated barriers remain.
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- Evidence28
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives78
- Confidence38
buildConfirmed2 publishers A hyperscaler has put a follow-on purchase order behind hollow-core fiber. For network architects, the useful figure is not the latency cut but the extra distance it buys.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives68
- Confidence52