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Note from BQP Partners
IMPORTANT: if you learned about BQP Partners outside of AngelList -- e.g. via a blog or referral -- please note this in your application.
Join BQP Partners to invest in quantum computing and AI with a leader of the field, Scott Aaronson. Scott helped develop the concept of quantum supremacy, and established many of the theoretical foundations of the quantum supremacy experiments that have led to billions of dollars of investment into QC companies.
The timeline to fault-tolerant quantum computation has compressed from decades to years, and many of the most exciting developments are coming from startups. Quantum computers, as soon as 2029, may be able to break much of the encryption protecting the internet and cryptocurrencies (including Bitcoin), and enable discoveries in chemistry, materials, drug design, batteries, solar cells, nuclear physics, and more.
At the same time, many companies today make over-hyped claims, which Scott has been challenging publicly since 2007. Even most deep-tech VCs don't truly understand this space, and are vulnerable to the hype.
I’m Scott’s brother David Aaronson, and I manage BQP Partners and have invested in hundreds of startups on and off AngelList. I wrote the first check into Tradepost, which was followed by Andreessen Horowitz less than one year later at a significant markup.
Scott and I together are investing our own money in BQP Partners’ strategy. In July 2026, we invested in Oratomic, which is racing to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer, employing some of the top researchers in the field; Khosla Ventures co-invested its largest initial check ever. We hope you’ll join us in future investments like this through BQP Partners.
BQP Partners maintains unique edges:
- Diligence – Scott can separate progress from hype like few people in the world (and has helped multiple Tier 1 VCs with diligence)
- Access – The best QC and AI companies want Scott as an investor and advisor
- Network – Scott has been in quantum computing for 27+ years, was recruited into OpenAI (2022-2024) by Ilya Sutskever, and writes one of the most popular blogs in computer science
BQP Partners will primarily invest in companies in these categories:
- Quantum computing hardware and software
- Transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
- AI, including AI safety, AI for science, and formal verification
TEAM
Scott Aaronson is the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at UT Austin, and the founding director of its Quantum Information Center; formerly a chaired EECS professor at MIT for 9 years; an AI alignment researcher and the inventor of watermarking in LLM outputs (OpenAI 2022-2024); a member of the National Academy of Sciences; and winner of the ACM Prize in Computing (2020).
David Aaronson manages BQP Partners and is an active angel investor. He has been a hedge fund quant, New York Fed bank supervisor, product leader at Opendoor, and ticket broker for premier live events in sports, music, and theater. David holds a math degree from MIT.
