AuroraQ
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
AuroraQ (Aurora Quantum Technologies, formerly QSpice Labs) was a quantum hardware startup founded by Mohammadreza Rezaee and Raina Olsen — a husband-and-wife team with PhDs in physics. Based in Waterloo, Ontario (originally founded in Toronto), it developed modular quantum components toward a practical integrated quantum computer — described as aiming to be the "Dell of quantum computing" — including a quantum repeater designed to send encrypted messages as photons over long distances for the quantum internet. It was an alumni of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch and Creative Destruction Labs.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Aurora Quantum Technologies is founded in Toronto, Canada by Mohammadreza Rezaee and Raina Olsen to build modular quantum components and a quantum repeater for the quantum internet.
- YC batch and Waterloo move
AuroraQ joins Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch and sets up in Kitchener-Waterloo's Velocity Garage, aiming to build the first practical, integrated quantum computer from sourced components.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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