Extropic

Backed byKindred Ventures
Total raised$14.1M
StageSeed
Hiring pace4 roles / 90d
Founded2022
Team size11-50
HQAustin, United States
IndustriesAI/ML

About Extropic

Extropic is a quantum computing spinoff founded in 2022 by former Google researchers that is pioneering thermodynamic computing, a fundamentally new computational paradigm. The company has developed Thermodynamic Sampling Units (TSUs), specialized chips that harness thermal noise in CMOS transistors to perform probabilistic computation with unprecedented power efficiency. Drawing on the founders' experience managing thermal noise in quantum systems, Extropic has reimagined this challenge as an opportunity, creating accelerators designed to work alongside traditional CPUs and GPUs to enhance AI workloads. With approximately 30 employees, the company is positioned at the forefront of alternative computing architectures that could significantly reduce the energy demands of modern artificial intelligence applications.

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Company at a glance

Location
Boston, United States
Investors
Buckley Ventures ·HOF Capital ·Julian Capital ·Kindred Ventures ·Marque VC ·OSS Capital ·Valor Equity Partners ·Weekend Fund
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Founders & Leadership

TM

Trevor McCourt

CTO @ Extropic

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GV

Guillaume Verdon

Founder & CEO @ Extropic || Formerly Quantum AI @ Google + X || Founder of TensorFlow Quantum

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AG

Akhil Garlapati

Leading Semiconductor IC Design

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AF

Andy F.

Director of Strategic Finance @ Extropic

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About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Other Specialized42%
  • Hardware Engineering21%
  • Software Engineering21%
  • Business Operations & Management13%
  • Leadership4%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.University of Waterloo
  2. 2.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  3. 3.University of Chicago
  4. 4.University of Oxford
  5. 5.Boston University

Team Worked At

  • Google
  • IBM
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • DARPA
  • Analog Devices

Team Composition

18 people
  • Engineering1 senior9
  • Operations2
  • Entrepreneurship1 senior1
  • Finance1 senior1
  • Information Technology1 senior1
  • Leadership1
  • Research1

Culture & values

Tight-knit, full-stack organization of approximately 30 people

Four core groups work in close collaboration: Algorithms, Systems, Physics, and IC Design

Everyone gets their hands dirty across the organization

VP of Engineering participates in hands-on layout work

Engineers pick up tasks outside their core specialty

Distinctly startup culture

Leadership values intellectual curiosity

Leadership values deep technical intuition

Leadership values willingness to tackle unglamorous but necessary work

Funding History

SeedDec 2023

$14.1M

raised

Extropic, a physics-based computing startup merging AI and physics, raised $14.1M in a seed round led by Steve Jang and Kindred Ventures; Buckley Ventures, HOF Capital, Julian Capital, Marque VC and others participated.

Kindred VenturesOSS CapitalHOF CapitalMarque VCWeekend FundValor Equity Partners+2

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