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CyberRidge is a deep-tech cybersecurity company that protects sensitive data from interception and quantum-era decryption using patented photonic encryption technology.

QuamCore pioneers massive scaling in quantum computing, pushing the limits of what’s possible with patented superconducting designs and an architecture-first approach, enabling fault-tolerant, scalable systems capable of managing millions of qubits.

Q-Factor is a quantum computing startup that raised $24 million in seed funding to develop scalable neutral atom quantum computing systems, aiming to build a million-qubit quantum computer.

DualBird is a cloud-native data processing engine that accelerates analytics and AI infrastructure, delivering significant performance improvements and cost savings without requiring changes to existing data stacks.

Invests in Colorado deep-tech scaleups—especially quantum and space—via deal-by-deal SPVs letting outside co-investors join his proprietary deal flow and access Dan Caruso's experience building three $10B+ telecom companies. Founded and led by Dan Caruso, who built three $10B+ telecom infrastructure companies and now invests almost exclusively via deal-by-deal SPVs rather than a traditional commingled fund, allowing outside co-investors to selectively join his proprietary deal flow in specific Colorado tech companies. The fund focuses heavily on Colorado "deep tech" scaleups with an outsize emphasis on quantum technology and space tech, maintaining a portfolio unusually concentrated in frontier/critical infrastructure assets like quantum computing, advanced space propulsion, and supersonic aircraft rather than typical SaaS companies.

Targets companies applying modern computation (AI, simulation) to agriculture, mining, manufacturing, health and defense, leveraging partners's hard-science and national-security expertise to navigate regulation and dual-use challenges.

1517 Fund is an "anti-establishment educational institution" that backs "dropouts, renegades, and sci-fi scientists" with a strong preference for founders without undergraduate degrees and deep-tech researchers working on ideas that would appear in science fiction. They operate as "the first believer" in companies at extreme inception, providing $50k-100k R&D checks before non-dilutive grants and running a pre-VC pipeline including micro-grants for weird projects, teen camps, and a 3,000+ hacker community they often know for years before writing checks.