Gate 1
Product strategy
Weak quantum-advantage theses drop out before the money is spent.
For the first quantum check.
You back quantum companies. You want the same reading of the book across every one of them. VentureQu is the instrument.
For the first quantum check
Give every company on your cap table the same instruments.
Nine companies in the sector raised more than $100 million each. Combined revenue across the nine is below ten million. That is not a physics problem. It is a reading-the-instruments problem, and it is sitting in somebody's book right now.
VentureQu runs inside a fund, a studio, a cohort. Every company you back produces the same shape of evidence. What is validated, what is assumed, what a partner will ask at the next round. You can read across the book in one place. Founders walk into their partner meetings already knowing what they will be asked. You keep the seat and the relationship. We keep the method current.
Four points where someone has to decide, on record.
Gate 2
IP & revenue model
Unsustainable burn is cut. A real revenue model is on the table.
Gate 3
First paying customer
No paying customer means no Series A. The round waits, or doesn't happen.
Gate 4
Kill switch
Ventures that can't earn the next round are closed honestly, not bled.
Past Gate 1, weak quantum-advantage theses drop out. Past Gate 2, unsustainable burn is cut. Past Gate 3, no paying customer means no Series A. Past Gate 4, the venture is honestly closed — not quietly left to bleed.
Capital efficiency, gated.Gate 2 forces a real revenue model at Step 12. Gate 4 is an explicit kill switch at Step 28. The method stops burn your LPs would otherwise carry.
Proof, not promise.109 fields. One real quantum company example per field. Warnings and good-looks standards. Zero AI hallucination.
Defensible to LPs, deans, and boards.Published methodology, documented gates, 81 quantum startups tracked, $11.8B of funding analysed. No vendor fluff to defend.
Your brand on rigour.Co-branded cohort instances. You become the partner that shipped companies, not the one that funded zombies.
Investment fundsQuantum VCs · deep-tech
Venture studiosQuantum · deep-tech
Corporate investment armsCVCs · innovation labs
UniversitiesTech transfer offices
Research centresNational labs · accelerators
Any teamwith a builder mandate