SandboxAQ funding profile

Software-led economics in a hardware-dominated table: its rows shift the median far more than they shift the total.

2 published financings~$950M disclosed total#4 global rank

Company record

This profile is a single-company view of the same public ledger that builds the global ranking. Figures are disclosed amounts, not valuations; an empty cell means the source did not publish a number.

Headquarters / foundedPalo Alto, CA · 2016
Technologyquantum-computing · AI + algorithms
Region / countryUnited States · United States
Statusprivate
Cumulative disclosed funding~$950M (lower bound)
Global rank#4 / 62

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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 capital5.60%
Median, same technology$85M
Median, same region$370M
Nearest larger peer (same technology)IonQ · $1.5B
Nearest smaller peer (same technology)D-Wave Quantum · $900M
Published financing events2
Cash disclosed across those events$950M
Policy / public-market events0 / 0
Unreviewed auto-collected events0
Syndicated reports merged into these rows0

Recorded financings

Spin-out financing~$500M

The ~$500M here is spin-out financing associated with Alphabet, which is a different instrument from an external venture round and should not be read as a market price for the company. SandboxAQ sells AI and quantum-adjacent algorithm software, so its capital intensity is structurally lower than the hardware rows that dominate this ranking. That difference is why we flag it in the methodology: mixing spin-out capital with priced rounds inflates software entries relative to fab-building peers.

Time, TechCrunchhow to verify ↗Alphabet (origin)🇺🇸 United States
Late-stage round~$450M

A late-stage ~$450M round three years after the Alphabet spin-out shows the company raising again on its own commercial story rather than on parent-company capital. SandboxAQ remains one of the few software-led rows in a hardware-dominated ranking, so its inclusion shifts the median more than the total. TechCrunch is the cited source; the round label is late-stage rather than a priced Series letter.

TechCrunch, Reutershow to verify ↗🇺🇸 United States

Editorial caveat for this company

The spin-out financing was announced as a company-level commitment, not a priced syndicate round. Comparing it directly with a Series B of the same size overstates what the two numbers mean.

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Data cutoff (latest reviewed event): 2026-11 (month precision) · Page generated: 2026-11-05 · Editorial policy · Corrections log · Methodology