Founded in 2015, Maryland-based IonQ grew out of more than three decades of academic research and foundational breakthroughs in trapped-ion quantum computing. The company’s early technology was built on innovations licensed from the University of Maryland and Duke University, two institutions that played a key role in advancing this approach to quantum computing. Backed early on by global venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates, IonQ was created with the aim of moving trapped-ion quantum technology b ...