Deep 008/Jul 24, 2026
The Map: Colorado's Quantum Ecosystem in Full
The newsletter version of what has been live on this website since Day 1. Eight months of coverage, one complete picture.
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Every long-form edition so far: the people, companies, and labs behind the Quantum Valley, one deep dive at a time.
Deep 007/Jul 17, 2026
Adam Kaufman and Google: When the Giants Move In
March 2026: Google hired Adam Kaufman from CU Boulder. What it means when the most resourced company on Earth chooses your neighborhood.
Deep 006/Jul 10, 2026
Elevate Quantum: How a Tech Hub Gets Built
130 organizations. $40.5M federal Phase 2 award (July 2024). How Colorado got named America's Quantum Tech Hub.
Deep 005/Jul 3, 2026
Quantinuum: The Trapped Ion Giant
Honeywell spinout. $300M raised. The most commercially advanced quantum computing company most people have never heard of.
Deep 004/Jun 26, 2026
Infleqtion: The Public Company
First publicly traded neutral-atom quantum company. SPAC merger with Churchill Capital X (Nov 2025), $1.8B pre-money. Three commercial products shipping today.
Deep 003/Jun 19, 2026
Ben Bloom and Atom Computing: 1,180 Qubits
Colorado Technology Association CEO of the Year 2026. The first time that award has gone to a quantum computing founder.
Deep 002/Jun 12, 2026
Corban Tillemann-Dick: The Infrastructure Bet
How a former BCG consultant bet that cryogenic infrastructure was more valuable than the qubit layer. He was right.
Deep 001/Jun 5, 2026
NIST Boulder: The Foundation
Three Nobel Prizes. Four laureates. Seventy years. The reason every quantum company in Colorado chose Colorado.
Deep 0.5/May 29, 2026
The Pentagon Set a 2030 Deadline
The Department of War ordered every US military system to replace all encryption by December 31, 2030. NIST Boulder wrote the algorithms that meet it.
Deep 0.1/May 25, 2026
Before the Equations
Schrodinger read the Upanishads. Heisenberg studied Indian philosophy. Oppenheimer quoted the Gita at Trinity. The founders of quantum mechanics turned East when Western philosophy ran out of language.