Ground State Ventures

Ground State Ventures is a globally focused, specialist early-stage venture capital fund dedicated exclusively to quantum technology. The firm invests across the full quantum stack — computing, sensing, communications, and infrastructure — backing extraordinary scientific and technical teams from the very beginning, typically before or just after incorporation, and acting as first-check investor in every portfolio company. As Ton van 't Noordende states: 'Some investors go deep on science, others on venture. We understand both the science and the stakes, and we aim to build a category-defining fund that drives exceptional returns to our investors.' The firm sources deals primarily from elite university research groups globally (MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, Chalmers) and brings a team with PhDs in physics to evaluate opportunities. It provides not just capital but hands-on operating support to help scientist-founders build commercially viable businesses, and supports portfolio companies with follow-on funding as they scale. In quantum science, the 'ground state' is the baseline of a quantum particle — with the right energy it reaches an excited state where its reach expands. Ground State Ventures applies this metaphor directly: injecting capital and conviction to take startups from their starting point and put them on a path to transforming the world.