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Why One VC Thinks Quantum Is a Bigger Unlock Than AGI

Zoë Schiffer

created: Sept. 23, 2025, 4 p.m. | updated: Sept. 26, 2025, 5:01 a.m.

Alexa von Tobel is fully aware that her big bet on quantum computing may never pay off. Inspired Capital recently invested in a quantum startup called Logiqal, which is seeking to build the world’s first scaled quantum computer. I suspect you knew about quantum computing for years before you decided to invest. If you talk to some of the best experts in the field, they would tell you there's only hundreds of quantum experts in the world. And I say quantum computers with an asterisk, because a quantum computer, even a quantum computer with 10,000 qubits, 50,000 qubits, 100,000 qubits, would begin to create a significant amount of value for society, but it wouldn't hit the bar of a perfect quantum computer, which is ideally hundreds of thousands of qubits.

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