BlackRock led a ~$450M Series C in mid-2021, an unusually large cheque for a photonic architecture that had not yet shipped a commercial machine. PsiQuantum was already describing utility-scale sites rather than incremental qubit counts, so the money is best read as pre-financing fabrication and facilities. In our ledger it is the earlier of two billion-dollar-class photonic entries; the gap to the later Series E says more about the cash demands of a fab-aligned roadmap than about a repricing of technical risk.
PsiQuantum funding profile
Its disclosed total is dominated by one Series E, so the profile is really about what a single fab-aligned financing can do to a ranking.
Company record
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| Headquarters / founded | Palo Alto, CA · 2016 |
|---|---|
| Technology | quantum-computing · Photonic |
| Region / country | United States · United States |
| Status | private |
| Cumulative disclosed funding | ~$1.7B (lower bound) |
| Global rank | #2 / 62 |
Where this row sits in the ledger
The values below are computed on this build from the live dataset. They are measurements, not commentary.
| Share of all tracked capital | 9.87% |
|---|---|
| Median, same technology | $85M |
| Median, same region | $370M |
| Nearest larger peer (same technology) | Quantinuum · $2.8B |
| Nearest smaller peer (same technology) | IonQ · $1.5B |
| Published financing events | 3 |
| Cash disclosed across those events | $1.4B |
| Policy / public-market events | 1 / 0 |
| Unreviewed auto-collected events | 0 |
| Syndicated reports merged into these rows | 0 |
Recorded financings
BlackRock returned as lead on a ~$1B Series E, with NVIDIA and other reported participants, making this the largest priced private round in our ledger. Four years after the Series C, PsiQuantum had announced utility-scale sites in Brisbane and Chicago; the money is therefore tied to facilities and foundry partnerships, not to a qubit-count milestone. Because the syndicate is only partially reported, we name the confirmed participants and leave the rest unattributed.
For PsiQuantum, the November 2026 letter of intent is a siting story rather than a funding story: the company had already announced utility-scale photonic sites in Brisbane and Chicago and closed a $1B Series E in 2025. A CHIPS-related notice is relevant to which domestic fabrication partnerships are encouraged, not to the company's cash balance. Our ledger shows it with an empty amount column and a month-precision date so it can never be summed with the priced rounds.
Editorial caveat for this company
The Series E is a single reported figure with no post-money valuation attached. We do not infer one, and the profile deliberately has no valuation field.