Where does Joel Pendleton work?

Joel Pendleton is Co-Founder and CTO of Conductor Quantum.

What companies did Joel Pendleton found?

Joel Pendleton founded Conductor Quantum.

Where did Joel Pendleton go to school?

Joel Pendleton studied at University of Oxford (DPhil, Engineering Science); Y Combinator (S24); UCL (MSci, Physics).

Joel Pendleton

Founder

Co-Founder and CTO at Conductor Quantum

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedConductor Quantum · YC

30 Under 30 2026 · Science

About

Joel Pendleton is a co-founder of Conductor Quantum, a quantum computing software company. He previously worked across deep tech startups and research institutions on quantum computing technologies, and left a PhD program at Oxford to start the company.

Co-Founder and CTO at Conductor Quantum YC S24

Intro paths

Joel went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Conductor Quantum's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Joel can intro founders to Conductor Quantum's investors below.

Conductor Quantum's investors · 7

DG Daiwa Ventures MyAsiaVCSeattle Olive Tree CapitalBoston OUTBOUND CAPITALSaratoga Springs Oxonian VenturesPalo Alto Transpose Platform ManagementHouston Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Conductor Quantum

Brandon SeverinCo-Founder & CEO

Experience

Conductor QuantumCo-Founder and CTOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, CA
QuantrolOxApplied Researcher2023 — 2024Oxford, England, United Kingdom
QuantrolOxApplied Researcher2022 — 2023Oxford, England, United Kingdom
FeynmanCo-Founder and CTO2022 — 2024Oxford, England, United Kingdom
UnifyML Engineer Intern2022
C12Research Intern2022Paris, Île-de-France, France
London Centre for NanotechnologyMSci Research Student2021 — 2022London, England, United Kingdom
Quantum MotionResearch Intern2021London, England, United Kingdom
Quantum MotionResearch Intern2020London, England, United Kingdom

Skills & more

Leadership4Management4Problem SolvingSoftware DevelopmentSemiconductor DeviceArtificial Intelligence (AI)1Natural Language Processing (NLP)1PyTorchContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)MXNetNumPyUnit Testing

+12 more

Object DetectionProgrammingDeep LearningElectronicsQuantum DotsQuantum ComputingComputer VisionComputational PhysicsMuMaxKwantElectrical TransportCarbon Nanotubes

Sequence Models — Coursera
Deep Learning Specialization — Coursera
Structuring Machine Learning Projects — Coursera
Convolutional Neural Networks — Coursera
Bloomberg Market Concepts — Bloomberg
Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera
Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Joel Pendleton?: Joel Pendleton is a co-founder of Conductor Quantum, a quantum computing software company. He previously worked across deep tech startups and research institutions on quantum computing technologies, and left a PhD program at Oxford to start the company.
Where does Joel Pendleton work?: Joel Pendleton is Co-Founder and CTO of Conductor Quantum.
What companies did Joel Pendleton found?: Joel Pendleton founded Conductor Quantum.
Where did Joel Pendleton go to school?: Joel Pendleton studied at University of Oxford (DPhil, Engineering Science); Y Combinator (S24); UCL (MSci, Physics).