Pure-play Quantum · VC Firm

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World's largest pure-play quantum fund (Fund I targeting €300M, first close €134M Oct 2025), incubated by EIFO under Denmark's National Quantum Strategy with Novo Holdings as co-cornerstone. Six deals in eight months from pre-seed to growth, including co-leads in Kiutra, Groove Quantum and Quanscient.

Active Copenhagen, DenmarkFounded 2025

Investment thesis

World's largest fund 100% focused on the quantum stack: a €300M-target Fund I (first close €134M, Oct 2, 2025) investing exclusively across quantum computing, sensing and timing, and communication, from enabling technologies (cryogenics, photonics) to full-stack hardware and software/algorithms.

A sovereign-capital construction: mandated by Denmark's 2023 National Strategy for Quantum Technology, incubated by EIFO with Novo Holdings as co-cornerstone, and co-founded with Vsquared Ventures and Cambium Capital; named after Copenhagen's latitude in Niels Bohr's tradition.

Stage-agnostic but early-stage-centered: six investments in eight months span pre-seed ($1.2M QMatter) to growth ($55M Monarch round), with lead/co-lead positions in four of six deals and roughly 75% of capital earmarked for Europe (one quarter for the Nordics), 25% worldwide.

Operator-grade team relocated to Copenhagen: Managing Partner Owen Lozman (ex M Ventures) with GPs Helmut Katzgraber (ex Amazon/Microsoft quantum) and Kai Hudek (ex IonQ); targeting 25-30 portfolio companies.

Anti-thesis

The patterns that trigger a fast no with this fund.

  1. Final close not reached: only €134M of the €300M target is secured; real deployment capacity depends on subsequent closings, none announced as of June 5, 2026
  2. First-time fund with a team assembled by EIFO in 2025: no shared track record as a firm, no DPI; the platform thesis is still to be proven
  3. Strong Danish/European sovereign coloring: roughly 75% of capital earmarked for Europe; a North American or Asian founder competes for the smaller 'select opportunities worldwide' pocket
  4. Check size unpublished and the fund is young: the per-stage envelope is hard for a founder to anticipate

Notable quantum portfolio

Full portfolio
IQMKiutraMonarch QuantumQMatterGroove QuantumQuanscient

Frequent co-investors