Built for quantum companies
The resources we wished a quantum founder had.
Every template, checklist and article here is written for quantum founders by people who close quantum rounds. Not generic SaaS playbooks. Opinionated, free, no email gate.
These resources live in your workspace, where you track what you have used, share comments with us, and get the next versions first.
Templates
Start from what works, not a blank page.
Models, decks and data-room skeletons used by founders who have closed with quantum-native investors. Strip our names, add yours.
Quantum startup financial model, Seed to Series A
Monthly P&L, capex schedule on quantum hardware, non-dilutive grant tracker (SR&ED, IRAP, EU Quantum Flagship, DARPA), runway and stress-test tab.
Quantum investor deck, 10 slides
Problem, why-now, technology readiness level, traction, business model, team, ask. The slide structure quantum VCs expect, including the TRL slide most generalist decks miss.
Quantum data room scaffold
An empty 11-folder, 55-sub-folder tree, ready to unzip into your investor drive. One README per folder, a 6-page overview and a naming-conventions guide.
Quantum investor monthly update
KPIs, technical milestones, grant draws, hires, asks. The one-page monthly format that keeps quantum investors warm between rounds.
Quantum cap table template
Three founders, an option pool, three SAFEs, two priced rounds (Pre-Seed + Series A), exit ROI. SAFE discount-binding modeled. Sanity checks built in.
Checklists
The things you forget, until diligence finds them.
Short, specific, opinionated, tuned to a quantum diligence cycle. Print them, check them off, kill a class of surprises.
Quantum startup pre-raise readiness checklist
31 items across narrative, science and IP, team and governance, commercial and non-dilutive, data room and investor mapping. The list we run before any quantum founder starts outbound.
Quantum financial diligence prep checklist
What an FDD team requests in week one of a quantum Series A: milestone revenue recognition, grant accounting, capex amortization on quantum hardware, reconciliations.
First quantum investor call, prep checklist
What to send 48h before, what to walk in with, what to never say. A pre-flight tuned to how quantum VCs run their first call.
Quantum term sheet review checklist
Clauses quantum founders optimize for, and clauses they regret six months later: IP carve-outs, government-rights clauses, dual-use export restrictions few SaaS lawyers flag.
Articles
Patterns, not advice.
Short pieces on what kills quantum rounds, what moves them, and what the best founders do differently in diligence.
Why quantum rounds die in diligence, not in the pitch
A quantum founder nails the meeting, then loses six weeks on the same three gaps: freedom-to-operate, milestone revenue recognition, and how grants flow through the model.
The five questions every quantum VC asks, phrased differently
Technology readiness, hardware architecture, customer pipeline, IP and freedom-to-operate, team. Whatever surface form it takes, a quantum VC is asking one of these five.
The quantum grant stack, modeled into runway
Half of quantum runway is non-dilutive. If your model treats grants as other income, diligence will spot it. How to present applications, milestones and draws like a quantum CFO.
The five numbers a quantum founder must defend in two minutes
Bookings, backlog, gross margin, capex per quantum system, runway sensitivity. The five numbers a quantum VC asks about, plus the three ways founders mis-state them.
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