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SandboxAQ Adds $150M From Google, Nvidia And Others

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spinoff — an AI and quantum computing startup — added another $150 million to its Series E from the likes of and .

The add-on comes less than four months after the company announced it had raised a $300 million round at a $5.6 billion valuation.

Other investors in the Series E add-on include , and .

SandboxAQ is looking at the related effects of both AI and quantum — which is where the company gets the “AQ” in its name — to develop commercial products for telecom, financial services, healthcare, security and other computationally intensive sectors. The company already is working with a handful of customers on enterprise software and cybersecurity tools related to quantum computing.

In March 2022, Alphabet officially spun off its 6-year-old quantum tech group — SandboxAQ — which emerged as its own company after closing a $500 million financing round and naming former CEO chairman.

Investors in the round include , Eric Schmidt, , , funds and accounts advised by , , , , and other funds and investors.

SandboxAQ has raised over $950 million, per the company.

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This is the second massive round from an Alphabet/Google spinout this week.

Earlier, raised $600 million in its first external funding round as the company looks to apply artificial intelligence to the drug development process.

That round was led by with participation from . The London-based AI company will receive follow-on capital from existing investor .

Isomorphic was spun out of Google’s in 2021.

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