D-Wave Quantum

Other B2B Software · Boca Raton, United States · Founded 1999 · Public via SPAC 2022

World's first quantum computing company and the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems and software services

Valuation $6.16B

Revenue $43M

Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Colt$25–100M revenue

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News Photonic closes $200M round at $2B valuation as Canada bets big on quantum computing May 12, 2026

Investors

16 investors on D-Wave Quantum's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage

Business Development Bank of Canada

Series A 5 investors entered at this stage

British Columbia Investment Management

Threshold Ventures

Fidelity Investments

Kensington Capital Partners

GrowthWorks Capital

Series B+ 10 investors entered at this stage

The University of British Columbia

Digital

Goldman Sachs

PSP Investments

BC Investment Management Corporation

180 Degree Capital

Nec

PenderFund Capital Management

Listwin Ventures

Western Technology Investment

D-Wave Quantum mafia

Startups founded by D-Wave Quantum alumni

Former D-Wave Quantum employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Sanctuary AIEst. 2018

Suzanne GildertCanada

Variational AIEst. 2019

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Global footprint

Where D-Wave Quantum has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

10 countries with
team presence

🇨🇦 Canada63.5%

🇺🇸 United States27.8%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.4%

🇩🇪 Germany1.4%

🇨🇭 Switzerland1.4%

Top 5 of 10 shown

Web traffic by country

140K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States16.6%

🇵🇹 Portugal11.3%

🇨🇦 Canada8.2%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom6.8%

🇮🇪 Ireland4.6%

Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of D-Wave Quantum's talent

Dealroom maps D-Wave Quantum's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

11 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org

7 AI specialistsincl. 5 core researchers

454 employees mappedperson by person

DimensionScore

AI Talentlive

Engineering

Product

Go-to-market

Leadership

Research

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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$98M patent portfolio · 184 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$98M

1.6% of market cap · comparable to top peer IonQ ($76M)

184 active patent families

Where D-Wave Quantum innovates Atomic physicsCondensed matter physicsMechanical engineeringMicroBlazeParticle physics

Where D-Wave Quantum concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across D-Wave Quantum and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

Compare against

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about D-Wave Quantum

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about D-Wave Quantum on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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