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Entrada Ventures
Entrada Ventures is a Santa Barbara-based seed/Series A VC founded 2019, with ~$200M AUM across two funds (Fund II $160M 2024 vintage).
Investment thesis
Entrada Ventures is a Santa Barbara-based seed/Series A VC founded 2019, with ~$200M AUM across two funds (Fund II $160M 2024 vintage). Invests pre-seed to Series A in US deep tech: hardware, enterprise, climate, quantum. Cheques $500k-$3M.
Quantum exposure is dual: Kipu Quantum (German digital-analog superconducting platform, co-invested alongside QAI Ventures and Onsight Ventures) and Quantum Rings (US quantum-chemistry software, simulation-as-a-service).
Value-add: West Coast deep-tech operator network; strong academic spin-out introductions via UC network.
Not a quantum specialist — two opportunistic bets in a hardware-led mandate. Useful as a US seed-stage co-investor on European quantum software-adjacent rounds.
Anti-thesis
The patterns that trigger a fast no with this fund.
- Santa Barbara / SoCal base is geographically isolated from quantum talent hubs (Boston, Bay Area, College Park, Delft, Sydney)
- Stated focus spans industrial tech, aerospace, and software, quantum would be a stretch outside core competency
- Smaller fund size limits ability to lead $20M+ quantum Series A rounds that have become category standard
- No publicly visible quantum portfolio company or partner with quantum information science background
- Regional fund dynamics (sourcing locally) work against quantum where the best founders are concentrated in 5 or 6 global cities
Notable quantum portfolio
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