At IEEE Quantum Week, New Mexico governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Economic Development Department’s Rob Black along with DARPA program manager Joseph Altepeter announced the Quantum Frontier Project, a new partnership designed to accelerate quantum technologies, with contributions totalling up to $240 million.

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The governor and director kicked off IEEE Quantum Week with IEEE President Kathleen Kramer, Zachary Yerushalmi of Elevate Quantum, and a panel discussion moderated by Alex Greenberg, Economic Development Advisor in the Office of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.

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From the main stage, these quantum ecosystem leaders covered bringing quantum computing to market through public-private partnerships and the thriving ecosystem driving quantum computing innovation in New Mexico:

📍Dr. Marissa Ramirez de Chanlatte, Investor, Playground Global
📍Corban Tillemann-Dick, Founder and CEO, Maybell Quantum Industries
📍Dr. Nate Gemelke, Co-founder & Chief Technology Strategist, QuEra Computing Inc.
📍Dr. Bob Ledoux, Director of the Quantum New Mexico Institute, The University of New Mexico
📍Adam Hammer, CEO and General Partner, Roadrunner Venture Studios

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At the IEEE Entrepreneurship Quantum Venture Summit, Dr. Ramirez will give a talk about “Investing in the Quantum Ecosystem” including Playground investments in quantum computing company PsiQuantum, quantum algorithms company Phasecraft (that today announced its $34M Series B), and quantum sensing companies Ideon Technologies and NVision Imaging Technologies.

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With support from the New Mexico State Investment Counsel, Playground will be investing $50 million in early-stage companies contributing to the next-generation computing ecosystem in New Mexico.

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