About
Investment Director who previously led quantum investment activities at London-based venture fund 2xN, backing startups including Sparrow Quantum and QSimulate and serving on the board of Kvantify. He was formerly Head of Product at ORCA Computing, the photonic quantum computing company spun out of his PhD research.
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Experience
- Ground State VenturesPartnercurrent2026 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
- Ground State VenturesInvestment Director2024 — 2026London Area, United Kingdom
- Quantum Investors NetworkCo-Foundercurrent2023 — present
- 2xNQuantum Investor2023 — 2024Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Imperial College LondonVisiting Academic2020 — 2023Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- ORCA ComputingHead of Product2019 — 2023Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Université de GenèvePostdoctoral Researcher2018 — 2019Geneva Area, Switzerland
- University of OxfordResearch Assistant2017 — 2018
- University of OxfordPHD Student2013 — 2017
- University of OxfordCollege tutor2014 — 2015
- Universität Paderborn - Paderborn UniversityVisiting Researcher2016
- Uniwersytet WarszawskiStudent Researcher2011 — 2013
- ICFOSummer Research Student2012
Skills & more
ScienceResearchPhysicsData AnalysisQualitative ResearchQuantum OpticsLaTeXMatlabQuantum technologies
Languages English · French · Italian · Polish · Spanish
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Colleagues at QDNL Participations
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kris Kaczmarek?
- Investment Director who previously led quantum investment activities at London-based venture fund 2xN, backing startups including Sparrow Quantum and QSimulate and serving on the board of Kvantify. He was formerly Head of Product at ORCA Computing, the photonic quantum computing company spun out of his PhD research.
- Where does Kris Kaczmarek work?
- Kris Kaczmarek is Investment Director at QDNL Participations.
- Where did Kris Kaczmarek go to school?
- Kris Kaczmarek studied at University of Oxford (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Atomic and Laser Physics (Quantum technologies)); University of Warsaw (Bachelor’s Degree, Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences); I SLO im. Ingmara Bergmana, Warsaw (International Baccalaureate, Physics).
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