SandboxAQ
Funding History
| Series E · 04/2025 | $5.8B |
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About
SandboxAQ launched as an independent company in 2022, spinning out of Alphabet Inc. after several years of incubation inside Google as an internal AI and quantum technologies effort led by Jack Hidary, who serves as founder and Chief Executive Officer. Eric Schmidt, Alphabet's former CEO, is Chairman of the Board.
- CEO
- Jack Hidary
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, CA
- Founded
- 2022
- Website
- sandboxaq.com
- Employees
- 51-200
Overview
SandboxAQ is an enterprise AI company that emerged as an independent, venture-backed business in 2022 after incubating inside Alphabet Inc. The company builds what it calls Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), AI systems trained to combine quantum-derived techniques with classical machine learning for high-stakes, physics- and chemistry-grounded problems.
Its work spans biopharmaceutical drug discovery (AQBioSim), post-quantum cybersecurity risk management, GPS-independent navigation (AQNav), and materials and chemicals discovery for sectors such as semiconductors and batteries.
Customers and partners disclosed publicly include Vodafone, SoftBank, Mount Sinai Health System, MapLight Therapeutics, and the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the company has said its post-quantum cryptography and quantum-sensing tools are used across government and critical-infrastructure customers.
SandboxAQ is led by founder and CEO Jack Hidary, with Alphabet's former CEO Eric Schmidt serving as Chairman of the Board.
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