Homepage Thesis AI Advisory Quantum Fund Publishing Events AEC GTM 7TV Growth Team Request My Spot
Harvard Yard at night, Memorial Church spire and the Boston skyline
Photo: Meihe Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0

Harvard · Goel Quantum Science & Engineering Building

Monday, October 26, 2026 · 5:30 PM ET

The Quantum
Portfolio

7TV Quantum Series · Presented by SevenTrain Ventures

Request My Spot View Speakers

Presented by SevenTrain Ventures · 7TV Quantum Series

Fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQC) are still years out. Quantum companies are already booking revenue in software, components, security and sensing. The Quantum Portfolio asks where that value is accruing today, who captures it, and how investors position before the machines arrive.

SevenTrain Ventures convenes quantum founders, capital allocators and researchers for a candid, moderated conversation across four verticals.

Date & Time
Monday, October 26, 2026
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM ET
Venue
Goel Quantum Science & Engineering Building, Harvard
60 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Format
Keynote + moderated founder conversation across four verticals
+ networking reception
Access
Space is limited and attendance is curated.
Every RSVP is reviewed by the SevenTrain team.

FOUR VERTICALS · A RETURN BEFORE USEFUL COMPUTERS ARRIVE

Four lanes of quantum value (application layer, enablement layer, post-quantum security, quantum sensing) already accruing between today and the arrival of fault-tolerant quantum computers, and continuing after it. VALUE ACCRUING NOW TODAY FAULT TOLERANCE useful quantum computers I · APPLICATION LAYER owns the customer II · ENABLEMENT LAYER III · POST-QUANTUM SECURITY IV · QUANTUM SENSING shipping hardware today
I
Application Layer
Quantum software earning revenue on classical hardware today, owning the customer before fault tolerance arrives.
II
Enablement Layer
The picks and shovels addressing bottlenecks and closing the gap between today’s computers and FTQC.
III
Post-Quantum Security
Governments and enterprises migrating sensitive data and firmware to quantum-resistant encryption on mandated timelines. Issue IV memo →
IV
Quantum Sensing
The vertical already shipping hardware, with no fault-tolerant computer required.

Illustrative · not to scale · Dashed = after fault tolerance

Featured Speakers

The Speakers.

Abhishek Chopra
Abhishek Chopra
Founder & CEO, BQP
BQP
→
Shankar G. Menon
Shankar G. Menon
Co-Founder & CEO, CavilinQ
CavilinQ
→
Johannes Galatsanos-Dueck
Johannes Galatsanos-Dueck
Co-Founder & CEO, Diffraqtion
Diffraqtion
→
Additional speakers to be announced

Schedule

Run of Show

5:30 PM
Doors open
6:00 PM
Welcome and keynote — Vikal Kapoor
6:15 PM
Founder conversation across the four verticals — moderated by Mats Løkebø
7:15 PM
Audience Q&A
7:30 PM
Networking reception
9:00 PM
Event ends
Vikal Kapoor

KEYNOTE · 6:00 PM

Vikal Kapoor

Founding Partner, SevenTrain Ventures

Co-author, The Intelligence Wars — Issue IV, The Quantum Arsenal, out now.

AI was where quantum is. The pattern has a name.

Every company and every nation is now building the same thing — a Decision Intelligence Layer above their systems of AI, defense, and energy. Not software. Not data infrastructure. A unified architecture that learns which way to act before the cost of being wrong compounds at machine speed.

Quantum is the smallest domain in that layer today. It was this small in AI in 2003.

"The question is not whether quantum reshapes everything. It is whether you are positioned when it does."
The Intelligence Wars · Issues I–IV →
Mats Løkebø

Moderator · 6:15 PM

Mats Løkebø

Quantum Investment Lead, SevenTrain Ventures

The Series · 7TV Quantum Series

This event is part of SevenTrain’s recurring forum on where quantum value is created, who captures it, and where the technology stands. The first edition, in Cambridge last spring, brought together Christopher Monroe (IonQ), Yudong Cao (Zapata) and Bharath Kannan (Atlantic Quantum), and others, with a BS horn on hand for calling out hype. The next edition follows this winter.

The first edition · Quantum, AI and the Reallocation of Capital →

Space is limited. Attendance is curated.

Every RSVP is reviewed by the SevenTrain team. SevenTrain Ventures is a New York-based venture firm investing in AI and quantum.

Request My Spot

← Back to Quantum Fund