IonQ made its debut on Wall Street with a stock market listing on Friday, making history by becoming the first quantum computing hardware company to go public. The listing of IonQ was done through merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The merger injected IonQ with $636 million capital which the company hopes to deploy towards bringing quantum computing out from experimental research into the hands of the end-user. IonQ is a pure-play quantum computing company. With a $2 billion valuation, the company has the backing of notable investors like Amazon Web Services, Google Ventures, and Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy. IonQ was founded in 2015 by Chris Monroe and Jungsang Kim with $2 million in seed funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Since then, the company has raised $20 million from Amazon Web Services, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and NEA. Another round of funding in 2019 earned $55 million …
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