Interview with Matt Kinsella
CEO of Infleqtion
As curious as I am about the science behind quantum technology, I’m equally curious about the people.
I recently had the opportunity to interview the CEO of Infleqtion, Matthew Kinsella. Matt leads an innovative, neutral atom-based quantum technology company which has made significant strides in quantum computing, sensing, AI integration, and commercialization through 2025.
Background
After graduating from Notre Dame, Matt joined Maverick Ventures in the public equity space covering technology, followed by early-stage venture capital in healthcare IT, cyber and deep tech. The latter began his curiosity with quantum and the opportunity to meet with numerous existing pure quantum firms back in 2017. By 2018, it was Dana Anderson’s work at the company he founded, ColdQuanta (now doing business as Infleqtion), that excited Kinsella the most. Anderson is part of a long legacy of Colorado-based physicist’s and researchers and is today Infleqtion’s Chief Science Officer.
Matt has been with Infleqtion since 2018 when he joined the board through a Maverick Ventures investment. And after 19 years with Maverick, Matt joined Infleqtion as its’ CEO because Infleqtion is “the most exciting company he’s ever seen”. When I asked Matt what his priorities were, he made it clear there was a very strong technical and operational team in place and that his job was a dual role in capitalization and commercialization. The pending merger with the Churchill Capital Corp X SPAC is a perfect example of raising needed funds to scale the Infleqtion product offering. In terms of commercialization, Infleqtion’s roadmap to 1000 logical qubits by 2030 relies on a next-generation architecture underpinning its Sqale quantum computer whose foundation is neutral atoms. And that’s just one of the many Infleqtion products.
Nvidia GTC 2025
Kinsella and team appeared at NVIDIA GTC on October 28th as part of the Keynote Pregame where Infleqtion announced they were bringing NVIDIA NVQLink Quantum System to Illinois, Expanding State’s Leadership in Quantum and AI Supercomputing. The company announcement stated “Infleqtion is among the first to integrate the new NVQLink open system architecture, which directly couples quantum processors with GPU-accelerated supercomputers, solving a critical bottleneck for scaling quantum computing and unlocking a new era of hybrid quantum-classical applications.”
Image source: Infleqtion (includes Sqale computer)
Public Announcements and Milestones.
Now let’s take a look at the year 2025 where Infleqtion has been incredibly busy on many levels.
February 18, 2025: Demonstrated a 16x16 neutral atom array—the largest of its kind in the UK—as part of the Scalable Quantum Atomic Lattice computing testbed (SQALE) project. This advances scalable quantum processors for fault-tolerant computing and is seen in the image above.
March 20, 2025: Unveiled Contextual Machine Learning (CML) at NVIDIA’s GTC 2025 conference. CML, a quantum-inspired AI approach using NVIDIA CUDA-Q, enables models to process data over longer periods and from multiple sources, boosting pattern recognition and real-time decisions for defense and autonomous systems.
May 28, 2025: Collaborated with J.P. Morgan to release an open-source quantum error correction library, reducing physical qubit requirements by 10–100x for more efficient quantum systems.
June 2, 2025: Secured $100 million in Series C funding from investors including Glynn Capital, Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), S32, and SAIC. This supports scaling of quantum computing, sensing, and precision timing technologies, with deployments already active at NASA, U.S. Department of Defense, and U.K. government sites.
July 23, 2025: Announced a $50 million public-private partnership with the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park and National Quantum Algorithms Center to build the first utility-scale neutral atom quantum computer in Illinois. The system targets 100 logical qubits using thousands of neutral atoms, unlocking AI-integrated, error-corrected quantum platforms.
September 8, 2025: Entered a definitive agreement to go public via merger with Churchill Capital Corp X at a $1.8 billion pre-money valuation. This potentially provides over $540 million in gross proceeds to accelerate product roadmaps (assuming no redemptions, and including $125 million common stock PIPE financing), building on Infleqtion’s existing momentum with ~$29 million in trailing 12-month revenue (as of June 30, 2025), three quantum computers sold, hundreds of sensors deployed, and a $300+ million potential customer pipeline.
September 17, 2025: Revealed a new Sqale quantum computer architecture, accelerating the roadmap to 1,000 logical qubits by 2030. Key milestones include achieving 12 logical qubits with error detection and loss correction (ahead of the prior 2026 target of 10), and the world’s first hardware execution of Shor’s algorithm for quantum decryption using logical qubits—demonstrating superior fidelity over physical qubits and highlighting needs for quantum-safe encryption.
2025 (Ongoing): Achieved a record 1,600 physical qubit array with 99.73% entangling fidelity; demonstrated the world’s first materials science application powered by logical qubits (via NVIDIA CUDA-Q collaboration with the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin), yielding a 6x boost in computational accuracy; expanded Oxford operations to strengthen the UK’s quantum economy.
Summary
It’s hard to be anything but energized by the discussion with Infleqtion CEO Matt Kinsella, who has the financial expertise to bring Infleqtion into a scalable quantum technology company. The company has an ambitious roadmap, yet a solid focus on near-term revenues and gross profits to build, build, build. Watch this space and the Infleqtion site for more announcements.
Brian Lenahan is founder and chair of the Quantum Strategy Institute, author of seven Amazon published books on quantum technologies and artificial intelligence and a Substack Top 50 Rising in Technology. Brian’s focus on the practical side of technology ensures you will get the guidance and inspiration you need to gain value from quantum now and into the future. Brian does not purport to be an expert in each field or subfield for which he provides science communication.
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